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Community Connections Celebrates 20 Years By Traci Sanders
In March 2022 Community Connections will celebrate twenty years of helping place local children in loving foster homes, with some eventually moving on to being adopted into their forever homes. Executive Director Karen Jackson co-founded and established Community Connections in 2002, having extensive experience in the child welfare realm since 1994. Community Connections serves as the middleman between the Division of Family and Children Services and individual foster homes where children are placed. The mission of Community Connections is to support Georgia’s children in foster care by providing comprehensive services and transformative partnerships with families and the larger community. I recently spoke to Emily Stone, Community Engagement Specialist with Community Connections, who shared that they have forty-three certified homes in their network and fifty-eight kids have currently been placed in loving environments. The website houses multiple stories and pictures of children being fostered and adopted through their services. “We are also very proud of the fact that although we serve all children in foster care,” Emily Stone said, “we often place children in foster care with medically fragile needs such as g-tubes, prosthetic limbs, wheelchair mobility, and more. Our vision is for children to thrive in safe and healthy family environments.” Applicants for foster parenting must live in the Metro-Atlanta area, be at least 25 years of age, be financially self-sufficient, pass criminal background checks through CPS, have references available, and complete a medical evaluation and drug screen. More information can be Continued on page 22
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