Addressing Educational Success by Focusing on Mental Health in DeKalb County
DeKalb Initiative for Children and Families is actively working with RezilientKidz, an evidence-based parenting program known as Raising Highly Capable Kids.
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Helping Families Become Stable and Self-Sufficient in Walker County
Walker County Family Connection is focused on increasing school success and decreasing childhood abuse and neglect.
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Prompting Systems Change in Rome-Floyd County
Rome-Floyd County Commission on Children and Youth is focused on gathering community partners and proposing potential solutions centered on improving school success and strengthening the family bond to reduce child abuse and neglect.
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Get Meriwether Reading Celebrates a High-Five Moment for Literacy
Meriwether County Family Connection brought community leaders and families together this summer for the Get Meriwether Reading Summit 2025—High Five for Literacy—to celebrate five years of progress. But this summit was about more than literacy—it was about building a thriving future for all families.
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Request for Proposals: Comprehensive School-Based Health Center Program
This request for proposals is meant to stimulate planning and facilitate collaboration and community discussion to expand the number of school-based health centers in Georgia.
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Bacon County Family Connection Hosts 30th Annual Day of the Child
Bacon County Family Connection’s celebration has been held in Alma’s downtown Goldwasser Park since its inception and features free food, fun activities and games, prizes, and access to resources and information for families.
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Emanuel County Family Connection Assesses Progress
In Emanuel County, the focus of Family Connection is on the improvement of literacy and nutrition for our community’s children and their families.
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Terry Edwards Connects Her Harris County Community
Since relocating to Georgia 21 years ago, Edwards has worked with people with mental health issues and developmental disabilities and has counseled jail inmates and the homeless. Four years ago, she landed at Family Connection.
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Family Connection Providing a Crucial Back-to-School Service
For kids across the county, its arrival marks the beginning of the end of the lazy days of summer and the inevitable return to the Lumpkin County classroom. But for parents on a budget, it can also mean an unwelcome and unexpected cost.
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Georgia Drops to 39th in National Child Well-Being Rankings
Georgia ranks 39th in child well-being, according to the 2025 KIDS COUNT® Data Book by Georgia KIDS COUNT. The report reveals rising poverty, lower reading/ math proficiency, and persistent health and economic disparities.
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Simulation Held at Butler Center Helps Community Members Understand Families Facing Poverty
Hall County Family Connection and the University of Georgia’s Hall County extension held a poverty simulation at the Butler Center on Wednesday. The simulation was meant to help participants gain an understanding of what a typical low-income family goes through.
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Georgia Birthrates Are Falling and That Could Be Bad News for You and the State. Here’s Why.
Fewer American women are having babies than ever before and the birthrate numbers don’t look much better for Georgia residents.