Community Connections
2300 West Park Place Boulevard, Stone Mountain, 30087
(770) 465-9644 · more numbers below
Community Connections is a licensed foster care agency in Stone Mountain. It finds and trains foster parents and supports them and the children in their homes. Foster families get on-call help, free shopping in a clothing closet, and basic items when a child arrives.
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- Taking volunteers now
- YesFrom the description, not confirmed
- Kind of work
- Hands-on (sorting, serving, building), With people (tutoring, mentoring, visiting), EventsFrom the description, not confirmed
- Who can come
- Adults (18 and up)From the description, not confirmed
- Groups welcome
- YesFrom the description, not confirmed
- How to sign up
- Call (770) 925-5001 or email the contact named for each opportunity (Erin Clayton for Summer BBQ, Catie Williams for Super Saturdays, donations@c-connections.com for The Closet Connection).From the description, not confirmed
What they offer 12
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Foster Care Placement and SupportProgram
Community Connections provides foster homes for children in temporary Georgia DFCS custody. It supports foster parents with on-call help, home visits, respite, training, and mentoring.
- Info refreshed from their website· Oct 10
Foster Parent Orientation and Pre-Service TrainingProgram
Each month there is an orientation that explains what foster parents must do and what the agency offers. After that, applicants can sign up for pre-service training to learn about foster care and decide whether to go on.
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Intake Support ServicesService
When a child comes into one of the agency's foster homes, the team gives help and guidance in the first hours and days. Staff are on call around the clock.
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Ready Together ProgramProgram
Children often arrive at a foster home with few or no belongings. Ready Together gives them the basic items they need so the family does not have to rush to the store.
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The Closet Connection ProgramProgram
The Closet Connection is a free shopping room for Community Connections foster families. It runs on donations of children's clothes, shoes, and books, and holds four yearly drives for spring outfits, school supplies, fall coats and diapers, and holiday toys.
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Volunteer: Super SaturdaysProgram
Super Saturdays are trainings for foster parents. Volunteers babysit the children in foster care while the foster parents attend. You can pick the age group you like.
- Info refreshed from their website· Oct 10
Volunteer: The Closet ConnectionProgram
Volunteers help in the on-site clothing closet. They wash, sort, fold, hang and store donated children's clothing, toys and books.
Events 5
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Back-To-School Supplies
Held annually in July
The Back-To-School Supplies event provides backpacks and school supplies for students in foster care.
- Info refreshed from their website· Jun 29
Fall Essentials
Held annually in September
Fall Essentials provides new fall coats and diapers for children in the foster care program.
- Info refreshed from their website· Jun 29
Holiday Toy Drive
Held annually in November and December
The Holiday Toy Drive provides new gifts and toys for children in foster care during the holidays.
- Info refreshed from their website· Jun 29
Spring Fling
Held annually in March
Spring Fling provides each child in the foster care program with a new spring outfit.
- Info refreshed from their website· Oct 10
Volunteer: Summer BBQ
Held each summer
Volunteers help at the yearly Summer BBQ that honors foster and adoptive parents and the children they care for. They serve food and help with children's activities like a moonwalk, face painting, games and crafts.
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