Atlanta Fulton Family Connection Provides Targeted Support to Children and Families
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By Janet Adams
Coordinator, Atlanta Fulton Family Connection
Families in Fulton County lack a strong support system to assist with early learning for their children. These children are struggling readers that fail to reach required and proficient reading levels by the third grade. Many parents are raising their families in concentrated areas of poverty in south Fulton that lack health care, affordable housing, healthy food, and supportive living environments. Research shows that children with these adversities experience problems with brain development, language nutrition, school attendance, summer learning loss, and a decline in physical and mental health.
Atlanta Fulton Family Connection is part of three Georgia Family Connection cohorts: Early Childhood Health and Education since 2014, WIC Matters since 2016, and Kin Caregiver Support since 2021. This work intersects to provide support and resources for families so that children can thrive at home and in school.
Involvement in multiple cohorts allows us to see the big picture of the issues families face, to ensure resources get where they’re needed, and that we aren’t duplicating those resources.
Strong partnerships in education, health, business, and the faith-based community provide the knowledge and resources to help us offer initiatives like cooking classes that provide nutrition education, tutoring to improve literacy, and caregiver support and counseling.
Georgia Family Connection fosters collective partnerships to support children and families who are lacking basic resources and all things needed to produce successful students. We’re working diligently with our partners to provide supports and services for children, from birth through age 8, and their families in targeted ZIP codes to ensure that children are proficient readers by third grade and live in thriving communities.
Visit Atlanta Fulton Family Connection’s website.
To find out more, contact me at at 770-595-7207 or affcmail2023@gmail.com.