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State Initiatives
Family
Connection Partnership has a 15-year history of promoting innovation
and change and linking community priorities and practices to state
initiatives. Our work involves:
- Researching
and promoting sound policies and practices that support local
collaborative development and local decision-making.
- Refining
and monitoring benchmarks of well-being for Georgia's children
and families.
- Sharing
our unique knowledge, skills and assistance in local collaborative
development and planning with state partners.
Initiatives
Family Connection Partnership collaborates with state and national
child- and family-serving organizations through specific statewide
initiatives to improve results in strategic areas:
Child
Protection
A major challenge facing our state is that of protecting children
and youth. Ensuring the safety of children at home, at school, and
in their neighborhoods is important to child well-being and to the
health and vitality of communities. Georgia's vision is that "Every
child will be safe from abuse and neglect and will become a healthy,
literate and economically self-sustaining adult. Georgia's children
will develop within nurturing, caring permanent families."
Community
Partnerships for Protecting Children (CPPC)
Community
Economic Development
True community economic development occurs when families have better
education, better health, and the ability to invest more fully in
their community. To overcome the barriers of poverty and unemployment,
communities bring local businesses to the table and weave a quilt
of supportive services that allow families to prosper, the community
to thrive, and community economic development to be established
and sustained. Local businesses invest more fully in the community
and help support families — the lifeblood of every community.
Georgia's
Rural Earned Income Tax Credit Initiative
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Early
Childhood
Early childhood, the period in a child's life from birth through
age 5, is a critical time for children to develop the physical,
emotional, social and cognitive skills they will need for the rest
of their lives. The first three years of life provide a window of
opportunity to ensure healthy development for all children. Recent
brain development research concludes that children who have positive,
enriching experiences during early childhood can more readily develop
the wiring in the brain that they will need for acquiring language
and problem-solving skills, forming positive relationships, and
developing many other abilities that are fundamental in later life.
Better Brains for Babies (BBB)
Smart Start Georgia (formerly GELI)
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Education
"Educating children opens an infinity of possibilities for
them that they would otherwise be denied: a better chance to lead
healthy and productive lives, to build strong and nurturing families,
to participate fully in the civic affairs of their communities,
moulding mores and values, creating culture and shaping history."
(Education for All: No Excuses, UNICEF, 2000) Georgia's vision is
that "All children in Georgia's schools shall receive a world-class
education that allows them to develop their abilities to their fullest
potential."
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Family
Support
Family support programs in the US have existed since the 1970s.
The family support movement strives to transform our society into
caring communities of citizens that put children and families first
to ensure they all get what they need to succeed.
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Youth
Development
Youth development is an ongoing effort of building skills, knowledge,
personal attributes, and positive attitudes through a framework
of services, opportunities and supports. Youth development outcomes
are healthy, educated, employable, and connected self-sufficient
youth who can participate successfully in family and community life.
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Economic
