Coming together to strengthen families and community.
The AOK Network began looking at the need to come together more intentionally around many issues/concerns families and communities in Adams County are facing. For a year and a half now the AOK Network has been hosting Conversations That Matter around how community providers (social services, government, schools, health care, etc.), faith community and families can come together in stronger, more trusting relationships to better support all families and all communities.
Through tough economic times where services and supports are getting cut the AOK Network in Adams County has come together stronger and more intentionally to reach out to families, to each other and to the community as a whole with more relationships and supports than before the conversations started. Current issues that conversations have centered around, along with trainings and new planning action are: responsible fatherhood, mental health, poverty and early childhood education.
The AOK Network continues it’s work around conversations that matter to build relationships and connectedness to continue to pull together and move together more intentionally and stronger than before we began the conversations.