About Us
Early County Family Connection brings together partners and community members to figure out the best way to help our kids and families thrive. We discuss our vision for our community, assess the needs in our county, then decide how we can best work together to meet those needs.
Early Childhood Literacy
The Basics – Five principles to support early childhood development. Click here to learn more.
Short Stories with Sheena – Monthly visits to Head Start, Pre-K, and daycares for interactive literacy lessons.
Little Libraries – Free Little Libraries placed around Early County. Restocked monthly. Click here to see a map of the Little Libraries.
Story Walk – Families can read a story together as they walk the trail at Kolomoki Mounds State Park. Click here to see photos of the Story Walk.
Early Choices
Youth Substance Use Prevention – Student assemblies, enrichment opportunities and school-based curriculums to reduce substance use among teens and young adults, including education about vaping. Click here to learn more.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention – Student assemblies, enrichment opportunities and school-based curriculums to reduce teen pregnancy.
WIC Promotion – Activities to encourage WIC enrollment and use of WIC funds for fresh fruits and vegetables. Includes gardens at Head Start and summer Farmer’s Markets.
Yoga – Afterschool sessions for elementary school students.
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.
