Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority
6 East Bay Street
Gamble Building ~ Lower Level
P.O. Box 10212
Savannah, GA 31401
Phone: 912.651.6810
Fax: 912.651.6814
Edward Chisolm, Executive Director
G-CAPP Resources for Teens
The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (GCAPP) has the following resources available for teens: What Teens Don't Know; Talking With Parents About Sex; and view Teen Websites for links to additional information.
Summer Reading Program
Make a Splash!...READ. From June 1st to August 15th. For all ages up to 18. Visit any Live Oak Public Libraries branch and pick up your reading log to get started! Keep track of your reading & receive rewards. You'll also be eligible for prize drawings. View Flyers. Also, get your own library card!
Savannah Promise Neighborhood
The Promise Neighborhood planning grant has been submitted. Announcements will be made in September for funded sites. We THANK YOU ALL for the tremendous work that has taken place to move us closer to the realization of the Savannah Promise Neighborhood!
The Savannah Promise Neighborhood (SPN) will be an early childhood development and education initiative. View the Rotary-Kiwanis Clubs white paper on Early Childhood Education that will have elements incorporated into the SPN white paper for the proposed target area. For additional information, from the top menu go to What We Do, then Data and Information, then Research Evaluation & Other Information.
- Savannah Promise Neighborhood Oversight Committee will meet on Friday, July 30, at 8:30 a.m. at the Chatham County Health Department (Eisenhower Drive) in the Training Room.
YFA Receives School Health Clinic Grant
YFA was notified by the Emory University Department of Pediatrics that it was a recipient of a Comprehensive School-Based Health Clinic grant. This planning grant will help in the implementation of a school-based health clinic that will probably be placed in an elementary school in the Savannah Promise Neighborhood area.
August 10, 2010
- YFA Collaborative Meeting, 3:00 p.m., Candler Hospital (Lewis Cancer Research Pavilion)
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.