About Us
Habersham County Family Connection endeavors to bring community partners together to develop, implement, and evaluate plans that address the serious challenges faced by our children and families.
Working with community partners, we have tackled intractable problems that challenge our families like child abuse and neglect, school dropout, and physical and mental health disparities.
Some successes in our community include:
- Increased high school graduation rate from 68% in 2011 to 97.6% in 2021
- Increased knowledge regarding prevention of child abuse & neglect
- Trained 10%+ of our adult population on the sexual abuse prevention program “Darkness to Light”
- Established a Family Resource Center in our community that includes parenting classes, counseling, First Steps & Supervised Visitation program
- Established a comprehensive Student and Parent Support Center at Ninth Grade Academy which houses mental health specialists and social workers
Our partners play a pivotal role in the implementation of our plans to improve the lives of our families. They include public agencies, non-profit organizations, civic groups, businesses, churches and individuals.
Some of our primary partners include:
- Habersham County Board of Education (Our Fiscal Agent) https://www.habershamschools.com/
- The Family Resource Center of Northeast GA https://frcofneg.org/
- Mountain Education Charter High School (Demorest) https://www.mymec.org/
- Habersham County Health Department https://www.phdistict2.org
- NDO-Habersham County Head Start https://www.ndo.org/web/habersham.html
- North Georgia Technical College https://northgatech.edu/
- Piedmont University https://www.piedmont.edu/
- Habersham County Dept. of Family and Children https://dfcs.georgia.gov
- Avita Community Partners https://www.avitapartners.org
- Circle of Hope https://www.gacircleofhope.org/
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.
