The Gray Center News

Visit our office to speak with our staff or peruse our bookstore or resource library. Please check our online calendar for a listing of our summer hours. Click here to access our GRAY CENTER CALENDAR. (If you would like to arrange to visit at another time, please contact annmary@thegraycenter.org or call 616-954-9747. If you wish to return library materials when our office is closed, you may use the box located outside our office door).

LOCATION: 4123 Embassy Dr. SE, Kentwood, MI  49546

We’ve added several NEW resources to our ONLINE STORE! Click here to shop. You can also download our order form to be printed here.
If you have benefited fromThe Gray Center's programs and resources, we encourage you to show your support by making a tax-deductible donation! Click here to donate safely and quickly online.
Do you ever SHOP ONLINE? Now your purchases can benefit The Gray Center! Join at NO COST at www.iGive.com/graycenter, and up to 25% of your purchases will go directly to The Gray Center to enable us to provide information and support to those affected by ASD! (Don't forget to log on through that page whenever you do your online shopping!) First-time purchases (made within the first 45 days after registering) through this program enable The Gray Center to receive an additional $5.00!

 

E-mail our Staff: click on an underlined name to send an e-mail. (For more information on each staff member, click here.)

  • Ann Mary Dykstra: Questions about The Gray Center, autism, social understanding groups, grandparent network, or information about available resources in and around the community

  • Marcia Hill: Questions about product orders, credit card processing, invoices, shipping

  • Robin Easley: Questions about conference or workshop registrations and Parent Networks

  • Christy Gast: Questions about speaking, exhibiting, resource library, and Young Adult Network

  • Laurel Hoekman: Questions about Social Stories™ or comments on our web site

    • Note: Due to the high volume of requests that we receive, it may take a week or more to receive a reply to a Social Story™ question. Please consider reading the information contained on this web site (click here) to see if your question may have already been answered prior to submitting your request for assistance. Thank you for your patience!

    • You can receive Social Story™ coaching (review of a Story you have written) by clicking here.

*Please note that we are only in the office three times per week. We make every effort to return phone calls and e-mails in a timely manner. If your e-mail is of an urgent nature, please contact our Community Coordinator, Ann Mary Dykstra, or our Executive Director, Laurel Hoekman.

Visit our Office:

Everyone is welcome to visit during our "open" times (see below) to peruse our bookstore, borrow items from our resource library, and talk with staff. If these times do not work for you, please contact info@thegraycenter.org to arrange another time to visit.

Note: We occasionally have to close our office due to dangerous weather conditions or staffing conflicts. Please check this web site for updates prior to visiting our office, or call 616-954-9747 to determine whether we are open.

WEATHER POLICY:

  • If a TORNADO WATCH is posted for Kent County within 1 hour of programming at The Gray Center, the program will be CANCELLED.
  • If a weather watch or warning is posted for Kent County during programming:
    • Children's programs will continue until parents have come to pick up their children
    • Adult programs will continue until the Gray Center staff decides to close the office
    • Open hours will continue until the Gray Center staff decides to close the office
  • In case of WINTER WEATHER conditions, if most area schools are closed (particularly Grand Rapids Public, Kentwood Public, Forest Hills Public, and Byron Center Public), The Gray Center will be CLOSED. Watch WOOD TV for confirmation of the closing, or check our web site.

    For a complete calendar listing of all of our open hours and events, please click here.

OPEN HOURS:

Visit our office to speak with our staff or peruse our bookstore or resource library. Please check our online calendar for a listing of our summer hours. Click here to access our GRAY CENTER CALENDAR. (If you would like to arrange to visit at another time, please contact annmary@thegraycenter.org or call 616-954-9747. If you wish to return library materials when our office is closed, you may use the box located outside our office door).

NOTE that we occasionally need to CLOSE our office or CANCEL programs due to inclement weather. Be sure to watch closings on WOOD TV8, and this web site for important announcements.

You may also visit us for our Network meetings or other special events. Check our Gray Center CALENDAR for details, or contact Ann Mary at info@thegraycenter.org to make other arrangements to visit.

Address:
4123 Embassy Dr. SE., Kentwood, MI 49546

(We are located east off East Paris Ave., north of 28th Street. Click here for a map.)

Phone: 616-954-9747
Fax: 616-954-9749
e-mail: info@thegraycenter.org

Click here for more information about the resources offered through The Gray Center.

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