About Us
At Polk Family Connection we’re working to ensure that all children are healthy, ready for school, and succeed when they get there; that families are stable, self-sufficient, and productive; and communities are vibrant, robust, and thriving. Getting to long-lasting community results requires collaboration across these five key result areas. None of them stand in isolation; they overlap. By convening at the same table on a monthly basis, our partner organizations share resource information to address food insecurity, employment services and training, early childhood and youth development, education, health disparity resources, poverty, trauma informed practices, domestic violence, and language barriers. We share a long history of collaboration, warm hand-offs and community partnerships that strengthen those efforts.
Specifically, we want to see children born healthy—and stay healthy. We want all young children to receive the resources and supports they need to prepare them to start school ready to learn, and we want all students to succeed. We are working to further these aims through our three strategies: children reading at grade level by 3rd grade, students succeeding in school and graduating on time, and families that are stable and self-sufficient. To assist in reaching those goals, we participate in state-wide initiatives such as Early Childhood Health and Education and Get Georgia Reading Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
A strong social infrastructure, coupled with evaluating our progress, is the best way to enable measurably better outcomes. Any issue we’ve addressed, every action we’ve supported, all the success we’ve helped to achieve, are a shared effort.
About Georgia Family Connection
Georgia Family Connection, a statewide infrastructure for aligning efforts across sectors, comes together through two distinct but connected change-makers: a statewide network of Collaboratives in all 159 counties and Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP). Each strengthens the other—and together, they form Georgia Family Connection.
We work toward measurably better outcomes across five key result areas:
The Georgia Family Connection statewide network—the only one of its kind in the country—works alongside children, families, and communities to help them thrive by crafting local solutions that maximize resources and make systems more effective and efficient. This network cultivates collaboration among community service providers, reducing duplication of efforts and allowing everyone to do more with the resources available.
Collaboratives equip local service agencies and organizations with the tools and methods they need to be more effective, helping them develop and work together on integrated strategies to improve child, family, and community well-being. We fill in service gaps in our communities by functioning as an incubator for direct services to families and children when a need isn’t being met. We also respond to urgent situations by maintaining strong relationships and the infrastructure necessary to deliver timely support.
GaFCP unites the statewide network in a shared framework that promotes consistent, ongoing collaboration and peer learning—equipping Collaboratives to draw on communities’ collective wisdom and experience across the state. GaFCP develops effective partnerships with state leaders, private enterprises, and other stakeholders to link the network with public and private funding, resources, talent, and innovation. GaFCP also empowers leaders across Georgia by making data accessible and providing practical tools, training, and technical assistance to support informed decision-making.
