About Us
Located in rural Southeast Georgia, Long County is home to 16,624 individuals living in a geographic area of 401.0 square miles.
Our partnership includes local public agencies, faith-based partners, local elected officials, The Long County Board of Education, regional partners, and additional concerned citizens.
The Collaborative must find better ways to communicate, work together, and establish mutually beneficial outcomes through connections in the county in order to make a better impact.
The Long County Family Connection Collaborative is focusing on engaging the community to build relationships and prompting an awareness of the collaborative through broad communication efforts to recruit partners from the community who are committed to the work of the Collaborative. The Collaborative will continue to serve as the connection for partners seeking solutions to health, education, social, and economics needs in Long County.
The Long County Family Connection Collaborative will build relationships through broad communication efforts regarding community conditions, resources while supporting partners and community events. The collaborative fills a major communication GAP in Long County.
By working to improve communication in Long County, the Collaborative will promote available recourses, programs, and schedule activities.
In 2024-2025, the Long County Family Connection Collaborative will focus on promoting literacy, supporting the school’s attendance initiatives to include community awareness, and working with partners to target solutions to issues surrounding food insecurity.
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.
