At the Family Resource Center in Berrien, families participates in the Kinship Care Support Group—a helpful way to get acquainted with others going through similar experiences, and where kinship families receive the services, assistance, and tools they need to thrive.
Students at Seminole County Elementary School can select a reward from a brand-new vending machine provided by Seminole County Family Connection. It’s not your typical vending machine. This one dispenses books that are theirs to keep.
When Courageous Conversations Rockdale was looking for trailblazers to form their youth pilot, they sent out a call to all public and private schools in the county.
Sherry Farr, nurse manager in Lamar County, noted that while there are many aspects to the story of low birthweight babies in the county, the programming has been working.
“We will have more jobs than workers—and there aren’t enough kids in the education pipeline in K-12 who will graduate between now and 2025, even if we graduated every student. So that 16% not graduating on time hurts us,” said GPEE President Dana Rickman.