Wayne County Family Connection

Please welcome Ms. Lana Wright as your new Wayne County Family Connection Executive Director. Ms. Wright starts her tenure on Monday, May 6th. She brings a wealth of skill and knowledge of collaboration, strategic planning, management, and more. Our next collaborative meeting is on Monday, May 20th starting at 9:30 am. Please come join us!

Youth in Community Summit coming up on May 17th at Altamaha Technical College. 150 students will spend half a day attending leadership development mini workshops facilitated by four leadership teams from Arthur Williams and Martha Puckett Middle Schools, Wayne County High School, and Thomas P. James Academy. Developing today's leaders today!

Project Homeless Connect will be on Thursday, April 4th at Cracker Williams Recreation Center starting at 9:00 a.m. Services for those considered homeless will be provided. Please share!

Reminder! Family Connection meeting on Monday, March 25th starting at 9:30 a.m. in the Family Connection Office. Cheryl Mainor will be talking about the Christian Community Center and we have guest speaker, DeAmon Harges who will teach us about the value and technique of "Roving Listening".

Mapping a Positive Future for our High School Students

Wayne County Family Connection collaboration meeting on Monday. Working together to establish our annual plan for FY13-14 and determined to make a positive difference, together!

Speaking to the Wayne Ministerial Coalition tomorrow morning. Looking forward to having breakfast with a great group of Wayne County Leaders. Topic "The Power of Positive Deviance and Gift Identification", to engage community members in using their gifts, skills and abilities to build human, leadership, community, and economic capacity. All too often we take the top down approach in trying to build capacity in any endeavor, but if the foundation is broke, the building you are trying to construct on it will not be sustainable.

The Power of Positive Deviance - find those who exhibit the behavior desired and focus on what they have done to positively deviate from the norm, engaging them and their practices in changing the culture.

Family Connection meeting was great on Monday. We are in the process of our Annual Plan for FY13-14 and we would like to know what is currently NOT being addressed in our community. What is something that needs to be addressed that no agency, organization, group, etc. is currently doing something about. You may post it here or message us. Thank you for your input!

Student Leadership Team and Mentors work together to map out a positive and possible future for students.

Collaborative Meeting on Monday, January 28th starting at 9:30 a.m. in the Family Connection Office. The next two meetings will be to establish our FY13-14 Annual Plan. This is a community wide collaborative and I invite you to come, let's decide together what gap we will challenge and how we can best work together to fill that gap, together.