Children Ready for School

The Hall County Family Connection Network is committed to improving the well-being of Hall County's children, families, and communities. The Network works jointly with partners across the county to address the serious challenges facing our children and families.

The Hall County Family Connection Network envisions that all Hall County children can be healthy, ready to start and succeed in school, and have stable, economically self-sufficient families that live in strong communities.

Since 1995 Georgia Family Connection Partnership has measured the well-being of Georgia's children using Georgia Kids Count indicators. In 2005 the indicators were revised and expanded.

The second set of the revised Georgia Kids Count Indicators focuses on Children Ready to Start School.

Early childhood, the period in a child's life from birth through age 5, is a critical time for children to develop the physical, emotional, social and cognitive skills they will need for the rest of their lives. The first three years of life provide a window of opportunity to ensure healthy development for all children.

Recent brain development research concludes that children who have positive, enriching experiences during early childhood are more readily able to develop the wiring in the brain that they will need for acquiring language and problem-solving skills, forming positive relationships, and developing many other abilities that are fundamental in later life.

For more information about this indicator area in Georgia see the Georgia Family Connection Partnership's Connected to Practice Series:
Best Practices--A Focus on What Works - Children Ready to Start School (March 2008)

Georgia Kids Count Indicators - Children Ready to Start School

(* Indicates Indicators highlighted in this report)

* Eligible children, age 3, enrolled in Head Start

* Eligible children enrolled in Georgia Pre-K

Children from low income families enrolled in Georgia Pre-K

Eligible children enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare

* Number of out-of-home childcare settings with national or Georgia accreditation

* Births to mothers with less than 12 years of education