About Us
Effingham Family Connection (EFC) is a team effort of community partners to coordinate and improve services to support families/children for a better future in Effingham County.
We are focused on building relationships through broad communication efforts regarding community conditions and resources, supporting our partners’ community events, and continually reaching out to new community members and organizations. We believe that in order for our collaborative to make a difference in our county, we need to have strong and mutually beneficial partnerships with a variety of community members, agencies and organizations.
EFC is a private nonprofit 501C-3.
Our Mission
EFC will engage partners to increase mental health awareness and access to quality behavioral health services to improve child, youth, and family mental health.
REACH Subcommittee
Our REACH (Resources, Education, Advocacy, Community, Help) subcommittee meets every other month to discuss current and local mental health concerns impacting our community. Through collaborative measures, we aim to connect members and partners with local resources and support that will address these concerns as they rise.
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.
