Locate Your Georgia Family Connection

The Building a Region of Resilience initiative is led by the Georgia Family Connection collaborative organizations of Region 1, northwest Georgia.

Find contact and website information for your county's Georgia Family Connection organization. Get full contact information by using the Collaborative Locator (click heading).

Direct links to Region 1, northwest Georgia Family Connection collaborative organizations are provided below. Click on pictures or collaborative names to visit their website. Click on the Facebook handle to visit their Facebook Pages.

Family Connection Resources

Data Tools

Building a Region of Resilience Leadership Organizations

Bartow Collaborative, Inc.

Coordinator: Chris Blackwell

@BartowCollaborative

Project Lead Partner

Available Trainings:

Connections Matter
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101
TBRI Caregiver Training

Catoosa County Family Connection Collaborative

Coordinator: Lacy Nipper

@CatoosaFamilyCollaborative

Available Trainings:

Poverty 101
Trauma 101

Chattooga Family Connection

Coordinator: Maisha Ludy

@FamilyConnectionChattoogaCounty

Available Trainings:

Better Brains for Babies

Dade FIRST Family Connection

Coordinator: Martha Baker

@DadeFirstFamilyConnection

Available Trainings:

Bridges out of Poverty
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101

Fannin County Family Connection

Coordinator: Jacqueline McKee

@FanninCountyFamilyConnection

Available Trainings:

Bridges out of Poverty
Connections Matter
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101

Rome-Floyd Commission on Children & Youth

Coordinator: Jennifer Jolly

@RFCCCY

Available Trainings:

Connections Matter
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Strengthening Families Georgia Modules
Standards of Quality in Strengthening Families

Gilmer County Family Connection

Coordinator: Tiffany Watson

@GilmerCountyFamilyConnection

Project Fiscal Agent

Available Trainings:

Bridges out of Poverty
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation

Haralson Coalition for Children, Youth and Families

Coordinator: Jennifer Dobbs

@haralsoncountyfamilyconnection

R1 - PTPN Chair

Available Trainings:

Connections Matter
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101

Murray County Family Connection

Coordinator: Pam Bishop

Available Trainings:

Better Brains for Babies
Poverty Simulation

Paulding Family Connection

Coordinator: Michele Craig

@PauldingFamilyConnection

Available Trainings:

Connections Matter
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101

Pickens County Family Connection

Coordinator: Leslie Long

@pickenscountyfamilyconnection

Available Trainings:

Bridges out of Poverty
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101

Polk County Council for Children and Families

Coordinator: Rhonda Heuer

@PolkFamilyConnection

Available Trainings:

Darkness to Light
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation

Walker County Family Connection

Coordinator: Laura-Beth Newsom

@WalkerCountyFamilyConnection

Available Trainings:

Connections Matter
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101

Dalton/Whitfield County Family Connection

Coordinator: Malisa Pedro

@dwcfamconn

Available Trainings:

Bridges out of Poverty
Poverty 101
Poverty Simulation
Trauma 101

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A Community of Support and Learning

This private Facebook Group is intended to be a community of learning and support that provides our partners and their staff the opportunity to share ideas, information and resources; ask for and receive support and encouragement; connect to resources; and build resilience in order to inspire it in others. Link to FB Group: www.facebook.com/groups/resiliencenwga/