Lee County Family Connection, the local point of contact for the Get Georgia Reading Campaign, hosted a Grow Kind Community Big Read Campaign for all students in pre-K through fifth grade in September centered on spreading kindness and a love of reading to the county’s young learners.
Medicaid coverage through the Georgia Pediatric Program (GAPP) provides home care services to medically fragile children under 21.
After the loss of their primary funding source in the fall of 2023, Kim’s Food Pantry in Bacon County struggled to keep food on the shelves and in its freezers. Then, they learned about the Georgia Hunters for the Hungry program.
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.
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.
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:
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.
In Laurens County, former juvenile court judge Bill Tribble had a vision for a center that would provide resources to struggling families in Laurens County, where 30.7% of children live in poverty, compared to Georgia’s average of 17.2%—and 41.3% of families with children earn an annual income less than 150% of the federal poverty line.
One of the more than 7,500 Georgia residents who earned a General Educational Development (GED) diploma last year was from Webster County. This year, at least three more will follow suit.
Unique Images Barbershop and Salon in Cuthbert is the second site in Georgia to become a Barbershop Books affiliate.
Fort Valley State University invited Dooly County to become a founding member of a cohort created through FVSU’s VALUE grant.