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News

01/25/10 - Pioneering Sex Trafficking Assessment Team to Support Victims of Child Prostitution in Georgia
12/29/09 - Unprecedented Private-Public Collaboration to Support Victims of Child Prostitution in Georgia
12/07/09 - GOCF Announces a New System of Care Grant Opportunity!
11/17/09 - Governor's Office for Children and Families has launched a new training initiative!
11/10/09 - Child Prostitution Crackdown Sees Success, Advocates Say

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Upcoming Events and Funding Opportunities

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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.

Upcoming Events: Community Strategies Grant Program RFP Training

The Governor's Office for Children and Families presents, in conjunction with the release of the request for proposals for the new Community Strategies grant program, a grant-writing and RFP training program. This training will be offered in various locations across the State in January of 2010.

For more information or to register, please click HERE.

New Funding Opportunity: Community Strategies Request for Proposals
- RFP release date: January 4, 2010
- Proposals Due: March 1, 2010
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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.