Mission

Voices for Georgia's Children will be a powerful voice for children and inspire Georgians to act on their behalf.

In fulfilling this mission, Voices addresses three strategic priorities:

A long term policy agenda for children
Effective improvement in overall child well being requires a comprehensive view of children's outcomes and a commitment to set challenging but reasonable goals.  We have set 10-year goals for five indicators of child safety, health, education, connectedness, and employability.  To achieve these goals we have offered a comprehensive policy agenda, backed by national research and the advice of local agencies, providers and advocates. 

Expanding and educating leadership for children
Voices seeks to educate and engage leaders from all sectors who can provide a voice for children.  Decision makers in government, business, and the faith and civic communities have opportunities to educate others and to influence the well being of children throughout the community.

Building the public will to improve child well being
Leaders and elected officials look to their constituents for information and guidance on policies related to children.  Voices offers sound information to the public through the media, our website and social networks to educate them on the facts and opportunities to improve the well being of Georgia's children.

Ten-Year Goals for Georgia
Voices set five objectives to improve child well being by 2015.  These objectives provided the basis for analysis of policies and practices that have potential to improve the outcome measures in a reasonable period of time.

The table shows selected measures that are easily understood in the public arena and allow us to compare Georgia to the rest of the nation.  The rankings of these five measures are typical of most other measures of Georgia’s children, usually in the bottom third.  Across all aspects of child well being, as reported by KidsCount and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Georgia’s kids have ranked in the 40s among the 50 states for the 20 years of Kids Count reporting.