In 2022, the Georgia Children’s Cabinet, in partnership with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia, created the Georgia 2Gen Academy. This initiative aims to improve outcomes for Georgia’s children and families by encouraging services that support children and their caregivers simultaneously and fostering interagency collaboration. Each year, the Children’s Cabinet nominates a cohort of agency leaders to participate in the Academy, where they learn about 2Gen principles and practices, and how to use a 2Gen approach in their work. Over the course of ten sessions held in person from September through June each year, the 2Gen Academy steers participants through learning, collaboration, and a capstone project focused on implementing a 2Gen approach. The Academy curriculum offers an array of topics that develop the participants’ understanding of the 2Gen framework, including centering families, systems thinking and redesign, measuring family outcomes, human-centered design, family-centered coaching, and effective communications.
2Gen is an approach that relies on the knowledge that the well-being of parents and caregivers is crucial to their children’s socio-emotional, physical, and economic well-being. 2Gen is a nonpartisan framework that can be applied to programs, policies, systems, and research. Designing programs to support children and their families together results in outcomes that are better for both generations, compared to efforts focused solely on individuals or that separate resources. This approach aims to integrate services and supports, rather than operating in silos, to create a more cohesive and effective system of care. The 2Gen approach has been developed and disseminated by Ascend at the Aspen Institute.
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