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Upcoming Events and Funding Opportunities

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

Upcoming Events: System of Care Trainings

The Governor's Office for Children and Families presents the second in a three-part workshop series on systems of care. The first part of the series, offered statewide in February 2009, provided participants with a broad overview of the system of care approach. This second workshop series will provide specific and detailed elements for developing and planning a community system of care. The workshops will be held on multiple dates and locations from October 13th through November 4th. Click HERE for more information or to register for one of the workshops.

Upcoming Event: Abstinence Workshop

This workshop will be held on November 10th in Atlanta. It is designed to educate, equip and empower adults who work with youth to effectively deliver abstinence-centered education to youth in an environment or culture where many people believe it is an unrealistic message. Please click HERE for more information.


No upcoming funding opportunities presently listed. Check back often for updates.

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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.

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