To receive the mini-grant, the schools must show how they collaborate with the child care programs to vertically align their early literacy practices to assist young students.
Hundreds of families have received life-changing support from Lumpkin County Family Connection—one of 12 Georgia Family Connection Collaboratives participating in Georgia Family Connection Partnership’s (GaFCP) Family Support Cohort.
Families, communities, and classrooms throughout Georgia can begin experiencing award-winning folktales on Aug. 27, available 24 hours a day on your computer and mobile devices.
Over the last 25 years she has grown Family Connection from that $25,000 initial budget to one supported by nearly $800,000 a year. In all, Davis has secured over $14 million in grant funds to support services for Glascock County residents.
Helpful resources included take-home information and freebies from a variety of organizations, from food banks and health and wellbeing-related nonprofits to public entities.
Lee County Family Connection officials said they are grateful for the opportunity to work with Worldreader, which will expand book access through BookSmart, build reading comprehension and emotional intelligence, and foster a love of reading among children.
Cobb Collaborative, a Georgia Family Connection Collaborative, and the local point of contact for the Get Georgia Reading Campaign, recently concluded its summer literacy programming to support Marietta City Schools students and families.
The program combats the disproportionately high rates of disease and death among Black mothers with high blood pressure. It builds on the work of two Liberty Regional nurses, Heather Daniels and Sandy Wells, and seeks to create a safety net for postpartum moms by connecting and coordinating care across a number of areas, including:
The Rome-Floyd County Commission on Children and Youth, a Georgia Family Connection Collaborative, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Jolly as its new Executive Director.
When Lowndes/Valdosta Commission for Children & Youth, a Georgia Family Connection Collaborative, opened the Family Resource Center in 2022, it became the first stop for the McQueens to continue accessing essential resources and services.
The United Way of NWGA, in collaboration with Dalton/Whitfield Family Connection, Dalton Public Schools, Dalton/Whitfield Public Library and the Early Childhood Initiative of NWGA, received a $14,000 Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy Community Coalition Grant.
Two-thirds of Georgia’s third-graders are not reading on grade level. The result is long-term negative consequences for those children, their families, their communities, and our state.