Our Impact

The Board of Directors of Family Connection-Communities In Schools of Athens (FC-CIS) has launched a campaign to raise $100,000 by December 31 to keep site coordinators in the high schools to continue to provide support for students at risk of dropping out. “The site coordinators have been spectacularly successful,” commented... Read More

Our wonderful site coordinators continue to do great work in all three high schools. Counselors and teachers are the largest referral source, and are passionately appreciative of the support students receive from the site coordinators. We have recently established a food pantry at Classic City High School, and site coordinators... Read More

The Athens Wellbeing Project data collection process is underway!   Randomly selected households throughout Clarke County will be receiving the attached postcard in the mail.   If you receive one, please complete the survey, and help spread the word.   You will be assisting service providers make more informed decisions, improving publicly available... Read More

As part of our TwoGen: Parents and Children Thriving Together initiative, we conducted surveys of Athens Technical College students who are parents and of ATC faculty and staff about the needs of those families. There was a remarkable 35% response rate among both groups. Here is the informative report of... Read More

Our dear friend and former staff member Virginia Walker passed away recently. She served for a decade as Athens Family Connection’s Empowerment Project Director and Diversity Coordinator. When the executive director of the national Family Support America visited, she left saying “Everyone talks about family support; Athens is doing family support,” with Virginia‘s leadership. She was... Read More

FC-CIS Board President Alice Kinman and executive director Tim Johnson discuss our three areas of work, collaboration, site coordinators, and neighborhood leaders, on WUGA’s Athens News Matters with Alexia Ridley: http://wuga.org/post/athens-news-matters-june-22-2018 Ridley also featured us in a four-minute piece during Morning Edition:  https://bit.ly/2yNRJd9