Author: Jeremy

As the date for the next Clarkston Community Conversation gets closer, we have more flyers in different languages to share with you and your friends. We encourage everyone to RSVP so we can have enough drinks and snacks for the meeting and so we can plan to have enough materials. You can click here to…

The Clarkston Youth Initiative has been working hard on planning an event for July 28th that will be a city wide workshop on “Keeping Clarkston Safe.”  Check out the flyer here SPIRIT flyer and share it with others!  

For a number of months now a small group of community based organizations and residents have been working on a event to be hosted here in Clarkston. It is a collaboration between Decatur Family Y, CFBC Community Development Center, United Way, GA Council on Developmental Disabilities, Refugee Family Assistance Program, DeKalb County, Clarkston Community Center,…

In January 2012, some of you attended a meeting the Clarkston Development Foundation (CDF) hosted at the Clarkston Community Center. At that meeting, we worked in small groups focused on three areas, each a part of the six themes identified in a previous community meeting  (June 2011). The six themes are: The Connected Community –…

On April 19th, a Community Transformation Focus Group took place in Clarkston in partnership with and hosted by the Clarkston First Baptist Church (CFBC). This focus group served the purpose to bring people together to listen to what they were interested in talking about and focusing the content of their training that would take place later…

New moms and moms-to-be gathered for a “Baby Shower” March 6 at the CDF’s new Parents as Teachers’ Play and Learn apartment at Willow Branch Apartments. CDF staff enjoyed holding the babies while the moms played baby bingo and other baby shower games and got to know each other while enjoying refreshments in the cozy…

On April 21st, over 100 people got together to celebrate Earth Day through Comcast Cares Day at the Clarkston Community Center. This great day of planting was coordinated with the help of a number of students at the School of Public Health at Emory University and through the generous support of Comcast. There were a…

We are looking forward to continuing something good that started last year… Check out this article to see what we did last year and then come see the update in person on the 21st. Come  out  for  a  fun-­‐filled  morning  of  digging  and  planting on April 21st from 9am-12pm.     No  planting  experience  necessary! The…