Enrichment Services presented an update to the Meriwether County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 23, saying the agency provided early childhood and family-support services across an 11-county region, including two locations in Meriwether County.

The agency’s representative told the board that during the 2024–25 period Enrichment Services served about 1,200 children and families across its service area; locally, 48 children received Early Head Start and Head Start and the program invested $1,516,894 in Meriwether County.

The presentation summarized four core services: education (including Early Head Start and Head Start), employment and training, utility-assistance to prevent disconnections, and family-strengthening services. The presenter said roughly 4,400 households received utility assistance and about 9,800 received commodities across the service area in 2024–25. The presenter also said the program tracks family movement along a crisis-to-thriving continuum; during the period 141 families moved closer to economic self-sufficiency and five reached it, which Enrichment Services defined as meeting basic needs without public or private assistance.

Commissioners were given a printed packet with the organization’s mission and impact figures; the presenter noted the agency serves 11 counties (10 in Georgia and Russell County in Alabama) and that Meriwether County’s board representative is Rhonda Fuller Denton. No formal action or funding request was made during the presentation.

The board thanked the presenter and asked no follow-up motions. The packet will remain part of the meeting record for the commissioners to review further.