Greetings,
Director Cagle and his leadership team will be heading to your region beginning Monday, August 21st for the Region 14 Roadshow. During their 5-day visit, they will be meeting with all levels of staff, foster youth, foster parents, the faith community, law enforcement and judges, media and legislators and Private providers, as well as hosting two of the events outlined below. The same week, you are invited to participate in the Region 14 Child Welfare Stakeholder Meeting, a joint collaborative meeting between the community and DFCS. We hope that you are able to attend one or more of the events outlined below.
The first opportunity to meet with Director Cagle and his staff is at the Provider meeting. It will be held Wednesday, August 23, 8:30am-10:00am at Hillside: 690 Courtenay Dr. NE, Atlanta GA 30306. Please click http://ow.ly/loLn30e5nXW for the evite with additional information and map. Your participation is essential for the State to continue improvements.
The second meeting will be held on Thursday, August 24, 2017 from 10am-12pm. The Region 14 Town hall meeting + Faith & Community Alliance (this will be combined for DeKalb and Fulton) is at East Lake YMCA Youth Development Center: 1765 Memorial Drive SE, Atlanta GA 30317. Please click http://ow.ly/Ynes30e5o8d for the evite and additional information about the meeting.
The third meeting is our Regional Stakeholder meeting on Thursday, August 24th, 1pm-4 pm, again at the East Lake YMCA. Director Cagle is not hosting this meeting; it’s a Regional Meeting with County Leadership. This meeting is to focus specifically on improving services to children and families and we would love your input and perspective. Meeting topics will include:
- State and regional progress in achieving state and regional strategic goals and positive child and family services outcomes
- Service needs and availability of services
- Identifying needed services
- Determining and implementing methods to develop or access identified services
- Monitoring to ensure implemented services are effective
- Continued communication and engagement between DFCS regional staff and community stakeholders
Space for the Regional Stakeholder meeting is limited, so please R.S.V.P. by August 18, 2017 to Christine.barbery@dhs.ga.gov. If you will be attending, a confirmation of your R.S.V.P., directions to the venue and any further communications will be emailed to you with "C3 Stakeholder Meeting” in the subject header.
Thank you.
C3 Coordinator - Metro District
