Since 2014, Leadership Fayette’s class project has focused on Fayette County’s civic health.  The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), an association focused on civic health, defines civic health as “The way that communities are organized to define and address public problems.” They go on to state that, “Communities with strong indicators of civic health have higher employment rates, stronger schools, better physical health, and more responsive governments.” Civic health indexes look at four areas: social connectedness, community involvement, political action and confidence in institutions.

In partnership with NCoC and the Georgia Family Connection Partnership, the 2018 Leadership Fayette class conducted a statistically valid study to assess Fayette County’s civic health. Georgia Family Connection Partnership recently launched an initiative to do civic health surveys around the state and we implemented this survey through them. Fayette County, along with Camden, Stephens, and Cook counties have completed the civic health survey

2018 Civic Health Survey Results