Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority
408 East Bay Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Phone: 912.651.6810
Fax: 912.651.6814
Edward Chisolm, Executive Director
Free Income Tax Assistance at St. Pius
Beginning January 27th, the St. Pius X Family Resource Center will be a VITA site and participate in the Earned Income Tax Credit program. Free income tax preparation will be offered every Wednesday between 10:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Call 651-6815 for further information.
Early Childhood Development
The Early Childhood Development Initiative will target a specific area in Savannah, Georgia. View the Rotary-Kiwanis Clubs white paper on Early Childhood Education that will have elements incorporated into the white paper for this initiative. For additional information, from the top menu go to What We Do, then Data and Information, then Research Evaluation & Other Information.
PTA Spring Conference
The 6th District PTA will hold their Spring Conference on March 13th from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon at Hubert Middle School, 768 Grant Avenue. Parents please come out and support your children and get involved! For further information contact the president, James Putney, at 912-308-5997.
Youth Summer Employment
Take advantage of an excellent opportunity for teens to get summer jobs. For additional information on applying for jobs, visit Georgia TeenWork.
Continuum of Development and Care
Through the mandate that came with the creation of the Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority (YFA) as the collaborative body in Chatham County that addresses issues that affect children, youth, and families, the Authority has been charged with the responsibility of assessing programs, services, and supports that exist in our community, or are needed, in order to achieve its vision that: “Every child will be born healthy, grow up healthy, be free from abuse and neglect, and become a literate, productive, economically self-sustaining citizen.”
Realizing the importance of having a baseline and framework established to allow the Authority to have a comprehensive picture of the programs, services, and supports that either exist, or are needed, in our community that directly relate to the developmental stages from prenatal/infancy through age 19, the creation of the Continuum of Development and Care (COD) was identified as one of the community outcomes.
The COD is an instrument that will identify the physical, mental, and social requirements for each developmental stage for children and youth. It also addresses the needs, supports, and services that both exist in the Chatham-Savannah community, as well as the ones that are needed. The specific developmental stages targeted at the time work began on this project were prenatal, childhood, and adolescence. These stages cover the age span from prenatal/infancy through age 19. A sub-committee, with a working committee for each of the three developmental stages, was formed to flesh out the programs, services, and supports that currently exist in our community and how they relate to the developmental stages. Also identified were barriers and areas where services and supports are needed.
For a considerable period of time, the committees and sub-committees worked towards the completion of the COD. As work started, the complexity, volume, and intense magnitude of the project was quickly realized. The work groups thoroughly reviewed and assessed appropriate logic models to use for outlining and describing the COD across the targeted developmental stages. Realizing that the COD will always be a work in progress as information and data are updated, what we have presently reflects the work that has been completed to date.
The COD report executive summary and workgroup report are available as separate documents. The Resource Guide is to result in a comprehensive outline of programs, supports, and services concentrated in the Chatham-Savannah community. This guide will require ongoing maintenance and updating. The present version is available under the agency resource reports, and reflects the information and data entered into the databases. The current information contained in these resource reports is not complete, and will be updated and/or modified as work continues on refining the completed COD document.