Editorial Approach

Connected is a monthly electronic magazine ("e-zine") published by Family Connection Partnership, Inc., of Atlanta, GA. Distributed via e-mail to hundreds of subscribers, Connected provides real-world solutions to the complex challenges facing Georgia's children, families and communities.

It features news and information on current initiatives, resources, tools and upcoming events that support community collaboration, results accountability, community-based decision making, family-centered approaches, and prevention-oriented strategies. Connected also showcases community successes and promotes "what works" using research and evaluation practices that have proven to be effective in communities.

Connected enhances public awareness of the issues facing Georgia's communities by:

• Communicating - Disseminating information on the successes of community collaboration that lead to improving the quality of life for Georgia's children and families.
• Educating - Informing communities of various initiatives and strategies throughout the state.
• Informing - Updating communities on available resources, and documenting and celebrating community successes.
• Increasing awareness - Providing summaries of cutting-edge research and evaluation to support communities in developing strategies for their work, programs and services.
• Influencing - Affecting policymakers, decision makers, funders and partners in the decisions that affect results being achieved in local communities.

Its diverse audience includes:

• Family Connection community collaboratives throughout Georgia
• Local and state legislators, other elected officials and policy makers
• Governing boards and leaders of local, state and national organizations and foundations working in the arena of child well-being
• Leaders in the business, civic and faith communities
• College and university officials
• Area media

Editorial Guidelines

The Editorial Team seeks articles that are relevant to its readers. Articles tend to address the following five result areas:

1. Healthy Children
2. Children Ready for School
3. Children Succeeding in School
4. Stable and Strong Families
5. Self-sufficient Families

These result areas are based on the State of Georgia's results and benchmarks for children and families. They also are a foundation for Family Connection Partnership's work with RAND and our partners in California, Colorado and Missouri on the Promising Practices Network.

Input about potential themes for issues, articles and authors is highly encouraged. Content includes:

• Family Connection collaborative news
• Family Connection Partnership news
• News from partnering organizations
• Community successes and profiles
• Editorials from featured writers
• Best practices and results
• Funding and resource opportunities
• Community events

To ensure that the Connected e-zine maintains editorial quality, the following guidelines are provided for articles submitted for publication:

• Articles should be submitted in one of the following formats:
  1. Sent via e-mail to communications@gafcp.org with the article (in a Microsoft Word format) attached to the e-mail.
  2. Sent via an online submission form available on the Family Connection Partnership Web site at www.georgiafamilyconnection.org.
     • The author's name, title, organization, address, phone number and e-mail address should be indicated clearly in the article.
     • If submitting a photo in an electronic format to accompany the article, a JPEG format is preferred. Please indicate if you have a preferred caption for the photo.
       Production Guidelines

Publishing Guidelines/Agreement

Family Connection Partnership, Inc. has copyright ownership of the Connected e-zine overall but not the articles contained within. Information may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or print, including e-mailing, photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval systems, without prior permission from the publisher.

Family Connection Partnership, as publisher, reserves the right to edit any submitted article to ensure that it meets the above editorial criteria. Family Connection Partnership also reserves the right to refuse publication of any information that does not meet Family Connection Partnership's editorial guidelines.

• By submitting articles for publication, contributing authors grant Family Connection Partnership the right to publish the articles, in whole or in part.
• To the extent that a contributing author's contribution contains any original work of other author(s), we understand that contributing authors for Connected have obtained necessary rights, licenses and permissions to permit us to publish and to grant third parties the right to reproduce the information.
• The opinions expressed in any guest editorials are those of the authors, not of Family Connection and Family Connection Partnership.