Stable, Self-Sufficient Families

The Hall County Family Connection Network is committed to improving the well-being of Hall County's children, families, and communities. The Network works jointly with partners across the county to address the serious challenges facing Georgia's children and families.

The Hall County Family Connection Network envisions that all Hall County children will be healthy, ready to start and succeed in school, and have stable, economically self-sufficient families that live in strong communities.

Since 1995 Georgia Family Connection Partnership has measured the well-being of Georgia's children using Georgia Kids Count indicators. In 2005 the indicators were revised and expanded.

The fourth set of the revised Georgia Kids Count Indicators focuses on Stable, Self-Sufficient Families.

Low-income and/or single parent families face extraordinary challenges in providing the basic necessities of life to their children. Children from families struggling with economic difficulties are at higher risk of living in poverty, child abuse and neglect, and are more likely to lack access to health care and benefits. Under-education of parents, unemployment, and the need for public assistance also are challenges that threaten the self-sufficiency of families.

A stable family structure is critical to the future success of children and the foundation of a strong community. For communities, long-term economic strength is dependent on families being stable and self-sufficient.


For more information about this indicator area in Georgia see the Georgia Family Connection Partnership's Connected to Practice Series:
Best Practices--A Focus on What Works - Stable, Self-Sufficient Families (March 2008)



Georgia Kids Count Indicators - Stable, Self-Sufficient Families

(* Indicates Indicators highlighted in this report)

*  First birth to mothers age 20 or older with 12 years of education

Children living in single parent families

*  Substantiated Incidents of Child Abuse and/or Neglect

*  Children leaving foster care who are reunified with their families or placed with a relative within 12 months of entering foster care

Eligible households, with children, receiving Food Stamps

TANF recipients who:
1. Are employed when they exit the program
2. Have earnings in all four quarters of the first year after leaving the program
3. Earn wages above the federal poverty threshold in first year after leaving the program

Children living in families where no parent is in the labor force

*  Senior Population
1.  Grandparents as Caregivers
2.  Residential Options
3.  Poverty Level and Household Income