According to the 2011 national KIDS COUNT Data Book released today by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Georgia held onto a national ranking of 42nd in critical indicators of child well-being for the third straight year.
Watch “The Town That Jobs Forgot” on Dateline NBC on Sunday night. The story features Jenkins County Family Commission.
The No Child Left Behind Act is up for reauthorization this year, so now is the time to explore the critical areas our legislators need to address.
Janet Bittner and Juanita Blount-Clark of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia reminisce about the birth of Georgia Family Connection.
Georgia’s existing supermarkets are unevenly distributed, leaving a disproportionately high number of lower-income residents without access to healthy food. Georgia Family Connection Partnership has helped form a Georgia Supermarket Access Task Force to develop a solution for this state.
We often discuss teen pregnancy and high-school dropout rates together because they’re so closely related. We can tie a lack of education to teen motherhood. Georgia Family Connection is applying a variety of strategies to address our challenges.
The Give Kids a Boost campaign begins July 18 in each of the state’s public health districts and will continue for three weeks leading up to the start of the new school year to raise awareness of Georgia’s new booster seat law—and to encourage children to get back-to-school immunization and booster shots.
Georgia Family Connection Partnership recently released an updated list of the Georgia KIDS COUNT indicators of child well-being, cutting the number of indicators from 49 to 45. Changes will help us better capture data we need to inform program, policy, and budget decisions.
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A conservative estimate of the cost of low-birthweight in the United States is $26.2 billion per year. Georgia incurs approximately $1 billion of those expenses.
Ghost Out and Crash Reenactment Program educates students on the consequences of distracted driving
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