PREVENT CHILD ABUSE GORDON COUNTY INC
Strengthening Families...Supporting Children...Making a Difference in Gordon County
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our organization aims to reduce child abuse and neglect in our county.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Parents as Teachers
voluntary home visitation program for families with children ages 0 to 3. Parent Educators (PE) visit families in the home offering early childhood parent education, family support and developmental screening. The program provides parents with activities and support that will enhance parent child bonding , information on child development and referral to community resources. English and Spanish.
Nurturing Parents
10-week course utilizing Community Based Education curriculum. This class offers a proven, effective, positive approach to parenting. Helps parents to raise responsible, cooperative children who are able to resist negative peer pressure and thrive by teaching about child behaviors, positive discipline, positive communication, self-esteem and more. This class is for parents of children 0-12+ years of age.
Family Ties
in-home visits utilizing Parenting the Second Time Around curriculum designed to help grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the role of primary caregiver and is open to all Gordon County grandparents and relative caregivers. Upon completion of home visits participant are offered an opportunity to meet others in the same situation and become a support network for each other.
First Steps
offers parents the opportunity for an informational visit. It is designed for families with children 5 and under and pregnant mothers. For newborns, the visit is in the hospital. For families with older children, the visit is in the home or a convenient place for the family. Information given includes maternal health, newborn and child health and development, home and child safety, community and family safety, school readiness, and family economic self-sufficiency. We also provide linkage to resources in the community as needed. English and Spanish.
Supervised Visitation Center
Provides family-friendly environment for children in foster care to visit with their parents to maintain the family bond and to help facilitate the reunification process.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Prevent Chld Abuse Georgia 2019
External reviews

Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This metric shows the total number of clients that received services across all programs.
Number of groups/individuals benefiting from tools/resources/education materials provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric shows all individuals that received services through the programs we provide and/or referrals to other community services.
Hours of supervised visitation provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Supervised Visitation Center
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This metric shows the total number of direct hours that a parent and child received supervised vistation.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to create awareness within the community by dispersing information and materials about child development, child abuse and neglect, parent education, and other relevant topics, and to be the driving force behind the prevention effort in our county, to provide programs that teach parents and caregivers more effective skills and to support families with programs that include everyone from infant to adult, both married and single parents.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our agency provides many programs to help educate families on ways to reduce stress and make better parenting choices to ensure the health, happiness, and safety of their children.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have highly qualified, trained staff to implement our services. We provide education to new parents at birth, voluntary in-home visitation, parenting classes, counseling, forensic interviews, family advocacy and supervised visitation for families with children in the system.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We provide over 3600 referrals each year to community partners to address the needs of our families.
Over 700 children have received forensic interviews and have been able to have their voice heard.
We are able to offer free therapy services to children who have experienced or are experiencing childhood trauma.
We continually provide education and information through all of our programs to help families succeed.
In the future, we plan to increase our overall community awareness and education on the issue of child abuse and neglect and how everyone can become involved in prevention to ensure all children have safe, happy, healthy childhoods.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
We serve families within our community with children age 0-18 years old.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Paper surveys, Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person),
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
The people we serve, Our staff, Our board,
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We act on the feedback we receive,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback,
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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PREVENT CHILD ABUSE GORDON COUNTY INC
Board of directorsas of 02/15/2023
April Chastain
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Race & ethnicity
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.