Family Connection Partnership

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Family Connection Partnership

• Family Connection Partnership is a public/private
  nonprofit created and funded by the State of
  Georgia and the private sector. The Partnership
  supports Family Connection, a statewide network
  of county collaboratives committed to improving
  the quality of life for Georgias families. The
  Partnership also helps partners at many levels to
  implement policies, programs, and practices that
  strengthen Georgias families and communities.

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History

• 2001
• Formalized state-level support for Family
  Connection into a nonprofit called Family
  Connection Partnership
• Diversified board of directors with 50 of
  membership representing the communities
• 2002
• Adopted two-year operational plan defining
  goals for supporting partners in making
  measurable improvements in five areas
• Healthy children
• Children ready for school
• Children succeeding in school
• Strong families
• Self-sufficient families

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The Partners

• The primary partners supported by the Family
  Connection Partnership are the 159 Family
  Connection county collaboratives.
• Additional partners include state policy makers
  and state and national human service agencies,
  organizations, and foundations.

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Sumter Countys

• Family Connection Collaborative

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Visions for Sumter

• Visions for Sumter Seeing Through Young Eyes
  Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The organization
  is the entity appointed by the county to oversee
  advocacy for children.

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Visions for Sumter

• Administration
• Joyce Carreker, Executive Director
• Ray Edwards, Finance Officer
• Trayce Dill, Bookkeeper

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Healthy Families Americus/First Steps

• Kathy Curlee, Program Manager
• Angela Harris, First Steps Coordinator and Family
  Assessment Worker
• Tanya Reese, Family Support Worker
• Yaketha Brown, Family Support Worker
• Nikiya Lewis, Family Support Worker

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Truancy Prevention Program

• Stephen Woodson, Truancy Intake Officer
• Renae Youngdale, Truancy Intake Officer
• Overseen by the Honorable Lisa Jones, Juvenile
  Court Judge and Visions for Sumter.

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Family Connection

• Angela Westra, Collaborative Coordinator
• The View from Visions Monthly Newsletter
• The Collaborative Website
• www.gafcp.org/fcnetwork/sumter
• Three Year Strategic Plan
• Annual Community Operating Plan
• Resources

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Visions for Sumter

• Family Connection, the foundation of the Visions
  organization, is a collaborative process that
  promotes integration of school, health, and human
  services in state government and local model
  communities. Through this process, state and
  local organizations are asked to work together
  and develop a collaborative plan to serve
  children at risk and to do so by using resources
  economically and creatively.

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County Collaborative

• One of Georgias community-based approaches to
  improving the lives of children and families with
  a focus on results
• A coalition of volunteers from the public and
  private sectors
• Dedicated to providing opportunities that nurture
  and enrich the lives of children and families in
  Sumter County
• Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors,
  representing service agencies, education,
  business community,

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Collaborative Membership

• After School Time Enrichment/21st Century
  Learning Centers
• Americus Literacy Action Group
• Americus-Sumter Co. Chamber of Commerce
• Board of Education
• Boys and Girls Club of Sumter County
• Businesses
• Childcare Resource and Referral
• Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
• Covering Kids and Families
• Department of Family and Children Services
• Department of Juvenile Justice
• Department of Labor Americus Career Center
• Georgia Southwestern State University
• New Horizons Habitat for Humanity
• Juvenile Court Judge
• Lake Blackshear Regional Library
• LEAP/Communities in Schools and The Sumter
  Mentoring Program

• Methodist Childrens Home
• Middle Flint Behavioral Health Care
• Middle Flint Workforce Development
• Congressman Sanford Bishops office
• The Paxen Group-The Zone
• Pre-K Resource Coordinators
• Physicians
• Right From the Start Medicaid
• South Georgia Technical College
• Southwest Judicial Circuit
• Southwest Key Program
• Sumter County Head Start (Southwest Georgia
  Community Action Council)
• Sumter County Health Annex
• Sumter County Ministerial Association
• Sumter County Health Department
• Sumter County Womens Health Clinic
• Sumter County Youth Development Campus
• West Central Health District
• 4-E Learning and Prevention Center