Georgia Family Connection Collaboratives in Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes counties are receiving $140,000 to support hurricane relief efforts.
s communities attempt to recover in the aftermath of this catastrophic hurricane, Georgia Family Connection Collaboratives have been supporting families in essential ways, like distributing food, water, and supplies, visiting homes to contact their most vulnerable neighbors, and helping with clean-up efforts.
Seminole County Family Connection hosted the annual Painting for Literacy Pumpkin Project this month. Families selected a favorite book to read together, and then chose a favorite character to inspire a pumpkin design. Each participant received a new book to read with their family.
A task force in Meriwether County is tackling vision, hearing, and other health barriers to support children’s literacy and learning.
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.