Creating A Pathway to Stability by Addressing Food Access in Lanier County
Family Connection is educating children about healthy foods, empowering families to make healthier choices, and expanding access to food through programs.
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Camden County Community Baby Shower for New Parents and Babies Planned for April 26
Camden County nurse manager Melissa Perkins said she wants this to become a tradition after the health department held its first one last year.
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Quiet Connections Keep This Community Together
They work silently. They work behind the scenes. And they work tirelessly on one of Lumpkin County’s most vital undertakings in a year-round effort to help local children in need.
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Brooks County Family Connection Uses Community Insight to Boost Food Access
Brooks County Family Connection is one of four Collaboratives participating in an effort to implement a systems change approach to increase access to healthy food that launched in 2024.
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Georgia Family Connection Collaboratives in Cobb, Dalton, and Dooly Counties Named Inaugural Georgia Reads Communities
Recipients represent community partnerships that, over the past three to five years, set goals for literacy improvements and made proven progress meeting those goals.
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Cobb Collaborative Executive Director Irene Barton Honored with 2025 Nikki T. Randall Servant Leader Award
Barton has expanded the organization’s reach and impact, strengthening partnerships among nonprofits, businesses, and local leaders to address critical community needs.
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Fayette FACTOR Announces Tara Hannon as New Director of Programs
Fayette FACTOR, Inc. (Fayette Alliance Connecting Together Our Resources), a Georgia Family Connection Collaborative, is proud to announce the promotion of Tara Hannon to Director of Programs.
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Empowering Communities Through Civic Engagement
With a 27-year track record of engaging community stakeholders, the Cobb Collaborative, a Georgia Family Connection Collaborative, is a proud partner of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s Vote Your Voice program.
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Georgia Reads Celebrates READBowl Students, Literacy Partners at State Capitol
Cobb Collaborative Executive Director Irene Barton said the journey is a “lot of little steps.”
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GPB Announces 2025 PBS KIDS Writers Contest for Kids in K-3
It’s time to sharpen those pencils! GPB invites all Georgia students in kindergarten through third grade to create a great story, illustrate it, and enter it in the PBS KIDS Writers Contest.
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Dawson County Family Connection Bolstering Partnerships to Provide Community with Warming Center
When Hurricane Helene recently affected so many Georgians—as well as surrounding states—an emergency warming center became a priority in Dawson County.
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Plenty of Love To Go Around
April Moore has learned to become creative with Oglethorpe County Family Connection. About a month ago, she started to lead an early literacy program in the school system to encourage the educational growth of kindergartners.