Governor's Office for Children and Families

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Upcoming Funding & Training Opportunities

The Governor's Office for Children and Families encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making Georgia a better place for families. By ensuring that parents have the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to care for their children, we can help prevent child abuse and neglect by strengthening families and communities. To find out more about how you can play a part and help create positive change in our State, please click HERE.

View our calendar

GOCF regularly offers trainings and events that we believe will benefit our grantees. Click HERE to view our calendar of events and make sure to check back regularly for updates.

New Funding Opportunity: System of Care Grant Program

- RFP Release: April 4, 2011
- Proposals Due: June 6, 2011
- RFP Trainings: April 14, 2011 & April 28, 2011

Improving the well-being of Georgia's children and youth through Caring Communities

The mission of the Governor's Office for Children and Families (GOCF) is to build capacity in communities to improve outcomes for Georgia's children, youth and families. Through grants and technical assistance, we help communities implement "Caring Communities," a systematic approach to coordinating child prevention and intervention programs.

The Caring Communities system of care approach is a new way of thinking about how we care for our children and youth. The Traditional model looks at the resources and programs available in a community and then provides support to each of those programs individually. This means that sometimes important needs could go unaddressed if no program is available; and other times, individual programs might duplicate efforts.

Caring Communities turns this model on its head by thinking "child first." With the Caring Communities approach, we begin by imagining everything a child and family in a particular community will need and then designing a complete system of care that can meet all of those needs.