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RISE Risley campus being developed as multi‑service community resource center in Glynn County
Summary
Glynn County leaders and community partners described plans to use the former Risley school campus as a multi‑service resource center offering Head Start classrooms, cultural arts space, collaborative social services, and urban farming to address concentrated poverty in Brunswick.
Glynn County Commissioner Alan Booker and Therese Hamilton, CEO of Coastal Georgia Area Community Action Authority, said the former Risley school campus will be developed into a multi‑service community resource center aimed at serving families in a high‑poverty area of Brunswick.
The project is intended to combine early childhood classrooms, cultural‑arts programming, coordinated case management and neighborhood urban‑farming projects on a five‑acre campus that county leaders acquired for use “for this purpose.” Commissioner Alan Booker said the campus “was the first school for the black community here” and noted partners including the college, the health department and local…
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