The tough hits keep coming in the Governor’s proposed budget. Governor Deal Gov wants to move Georgia Family Connection Partnership – a 20 year old public/private partnership serving families all 159 counties – to the Governor’s Office on Children and Family and downsize the program to serve only 24 counties. You can learn all the details about this drastic change from the Juvenille Justice Information Exchange, but here is just a snipet:
The plan would fold the Georgia Family Connection Partnership, a 20-year old statewide public-private collaboration, and its budget of nearly $8 Million into the Governor’s Office for Children and Families (GOCF) effective July 1, 2011. Currently the Partnership is attached to the Department of Human Services.
This is the second recent attempt to increase the scope of the Governor’s Office for Children and Families, an agency created two years ago by then-Gov. Sonny Perdue. Last year he tried to move the Georgia Commission on Family Violence to the Office, a move rejected by the state legislature in the past and opposed by many former commission members. Perdue replaced a majority of those members in the closing months of his administration.