About Us
Family Connection of Washington County continuously works to implement a comprehensive strategy to ensure that children, youth and adults improve resiliency skills that provide a foundation for a strong community. We work with community partners to support academic success, positive health outcomes and build community resiliency. To ensure that our collaborative functions most effectively, we will:
- Conduct an internal scan of our Collaborative and governing board to identify under-represented populations and recruit diverse Collaborative and board members.
- Task specific members of the Collaborative with seeking new partners to increase community collaboration to address the new issue related to a significant number of incarcerated parents waiting in the local jail to go to a court-ordered Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) facility identified through our partnership with the Sheriff’s Office and reflected in our annual plan.
About Georgia Family Connection
Georgia Family Connection is the only statewide network of its kind in the country with partners in all 159 counties working toward measurably better outcomes for our children, families, and communities. This gives us a unique vantage point—not only to see the big picture—but also to operate effectively at a local level.
We disentangle the mess of barriers, service gaps, and inefficiencies obscuring progress for our most vulnerable families. We do that by connecting our partners to resources, helping coordinate and manage efforts, and empowering our communities to craft local solutions based on local decisions.
Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP) represents and promotes Georgia Family Connection’s work, provides expertise in planning and governance, administers the state-appropriated funds for the local Collaboratives, sets standards of excellence, and helps Collaboratives evaluate their progress.
The state’s designated KIDS COUNT grantee, GaFCP also provides state agencies and policymakers with current, reliable data they need to inform decisions about improving conditions for the communities they serve.
Our Work
At Georgia Family Connection, we work to ensure that all children are healthy, primed for school, and succeed when they get there; families are stable, self-sufficient, and productive; and communities are vibrant, robust, and thriving.
None of these result areas stand in isolation. They overlap. By collaborating across sectors to address them, we nurture children and families who thrive in vibrant communities—everywhere. Because we work toward measurably better outcomes for everyone.
