Lanier County Family Connection

05/04/2026

May is also Mental Health Awareness Month, and we believe that a healthy family starts with healthy people. At LFC, we know that asking for help is one of the bravest things you can do. This month we're here to remind our community: you are not alone, and support is closer than you think.

05/03/2026

What a great night at Budget Boss! We are so grateful to Lakeland Church of Christ for hosting and to FMB for sponsoring the meal and door prizes for our April session. A big thank you to Mr. Bryan Williams, Chief Credit Officer at FMB, for leading such an informative and practical conversation about budgeting, banking, and loans.

If you missed it, do not worry! Join us for our next Budget Boss on May 14th at 6 pm as we dig into credit and your credit score. Dinner and childcare will be provided. We would love to see you there!

05/02/2026

There are no words big enough to describe what it feels like when strangers show up for your community the way Hightower Baptist Church did for ours today.

When wildfires began devastating parts of South Georgia, Natalie saw the need and got to work. She researched, she reached out, and she discovered that firefighter supply donations could come to our office and that items for families who had lost their homes could go to Brantley Family Connection. So she rallied her church, and they answered in the biggest way.

This morning, Natalie, her mom, and her brother loaded up and drove all the way from Cherokee County to Lakeland to hand deliver every single item collected by Hightower Baptist Church. That is love in action.

During Hurricane Helene, we witnessed this same outpouring of generosity from communities miles and miles away from us. It never gets old. It never stops being meaningful. And it never fails to remind us why we do this work.

We are so grateful to be part of the Georgia Family Connection Partnership, 159 counties strong, all working every single day to care for the families in the communities they serve. Because of networks like this one and people like Natalie and her family, no community has to face hard times alone.

05/01/2026

May is Foster Care Awareness Month, and here at Lanier Family Connection, we are spending the whole month celebrating the families who show up for children who need them most. 💙 Foster parents, kinship caregivers, adoptive families — this month is for you. Thank you for saying yes.

05/01/2026

When the wildfires began we volunteered to be a drop off location for items for the firefighters. We have just been blown away with all the support. Today Camron delivered a trunk full of items. He and his wife worked with friends and family to gather donations!

05/01/2026

🌟 May is HERE and we are BUSY! 🌟

We have so much happening this month and we want YOU there! From cooking and budgeting to street feeds, kids' activities, and more, there's something for everyone in our community. 💚

Save this post, mark your calendars, and share with a friend who needs to know!

👉 Visit us at www.lanierfamilyconnection.com for more details.

04/29/2026

Bella traveled to Cook County Family Connection today to pick up items they had collected for the fireman fighting the wildfires! This is such a great example of what Family Connection is all about. This is the 4th time this box has been full!

04/27/2026

We are still collecting donations in our office for the firefighters. First Baptist Church in Lakeland just filled our box. This will be the third time we have filled this box. Thank you all for you donations. The graphic below shows an updated list of needs.

We are open 9-5 Monday through Friday for drop off. We are located right beside the Old Butcher Shop at 4 N Brantley Street.

04/22/2026

We are so excited to be one of the 11 organizations to be awarded the Community Coalition Grant from the Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy GCSU. This funding will help us not only continue our work with Baby Bulldogs, but make it stronger than ever.

Congratulations to our Berrien County neighbors for also receiving this award. We are honored to work along side you!

The decisions are in, and the Deal Center has chosen 11 community coalitions to award our Community Coalition Grant! Each grantee has put forth a project intended to improve literacy outcomes and identified who will help them do it in a thorough plan of action—because it takes all of us to create meaningful change.

The following groups have demonstrated a determination to transform literacy practices in their communities by bringing together cross-sector collaborators.

Tier 1 grantees ($10,000 award): WACO Reads (Washington County), Lanier Commission for Children Youth and Families Inc., Building Brains from the Beginning, Inc. (Fayette County), and Family Connection/Communities In Schools of Berrien County, Inc.

Tier 2 grantees ($14,000 award): Whitfield County Schools, For the Love of Reading, Inc. DBA Thomaston-Upson Literacy Alliance, Madison County School District, Tri-County Family Connection (Montgomery, Treutlen, and Wheeler Counties), Brightpaths (Clarke, Oconee, Barrow, Jackson, Madison, Oglethorpe, and others), and Los Niños Primero (Fulton, Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, and Gwinnett).

Tier 3 grantee ($24,000 award): Sumter County Schools.

Is a project starting up, or sustaining impact, in your county? Keep an eye out for additional details about these projects and their impact as they work to implement each project. Congratulations to the grantees!

📸Photo credit: current and former grantee Dr. Rebecca Harper, Augusta University.

04/21/2026

Our local firefighters are out there battling the wildfires so we can stay safe, and they need our support!

Lanier Family Connection is collecting supplies to send some love their way. Check the flyer for the full list of needed items and drop-off details.

Let’s show up for the ones who show up for us. Share this post and help us spread the word, Lanier County!