About Us
Family Connection-Communities In Schools of Hancock County Inc. is a community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was established in 2001. We are the leading non-profit organization in the community that collaborates by coordinating programs and services and sharing resources to support children and families. For FY 2025-2026 the collaborative focus is on a health and early childhood literacy strategy that targets children ages 0 to 8 and their families.
To ensure that the Collaborative is functional, we will define the roles and responsibilities with our partners in health to include substance misuse and early childhood literacy work. We will work to ensure that the Hancock County school principals, John Hancock Academy, the Head Start Staff, and the North Central Health District are more involved in the collaborative work and to have a better understanding on how important it is to share data from reading assessments to be used to measure student success by third grade.
Currently, we have more than 40 partners dedicated to bring about an awareness of early childhood literacy, families eating healthier and substance misuse in the community. The Collaborative will work to fill the gap surrounding early language and literacy and families and children improving their health and becoming more aware of the need to keep prescription drugs out of reach of children. We will do this by recruiting additional partners such as faith-based leaders, local farmers, the Sheriff’s department, local drug task force and other healthcare organizations to provide services and support to those families in the target population.
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.
