About Us
Monroe County Family Connection addresses the root causes of problems, building on cultural and other strengths, pooling resources, engaging an extraordinary diversity of community members, and committing to a long-term process of planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Using a family-centered approach, schools, health and human service agencies, business, the faith community, law enforcement, nonprofit organizations, civic clubs, and others work together with families, focusing on academics, physical and mental health, nurturing parenting, economic success, and community service. We tap existing resources, streamline systems to be more efficient and effective, and initiate new projects.
We are currently addressing strategies to decrease child abuse and neglect in our county.
Monroe County Family Connection Executive Committee Members:
- Karen Peters – Georgia Police Academy – Vice Chair
- LaVaughn Gore – Secretary
- Sametrice Adams-Carter – Monroe County DFCS
- Jessica Evans – Family Services Coordinator & Homeless Liaison, Monroe County Schools
- Randy Gonzalez
- Jeff Holcomb- Living Word Community Church
- Margaret Holloway- Agape Me, LLC
Our Organizational Partners
Some of our partners include Monroe County Schools, Central Georgia Technical College, Anchor of Hope Foundation, Department of Family & Children Services, The Pregnancy Center, Public Health, Monroe County Library, Department of Juvenile Justice, Chamber of Commerce, individual businesses, Juvenile Court, Police Department, Sheriff’s Office, and many others.
Our most important partners are the families whose children we are serving.
The Future
Our success is our partners’ success—we bring them together, they develop and implement the strategies. Our most important partners are the families whose children are being served.
Please join with us through financial support and/or active participation to achieve our goal: All children and families in Monroe County will succeed at home, in school, and in the community.
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.
