HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Governor Kay Ivey announced on Monday a new website called Alabama Family Central.
This website's main purpose is to serve as an online resource directory for parents and caregivers of children. The website offers helpful programs and information about education, healthcare, child services, and family resources.
"The need really is, to make it easy on families to access services, so, while we don't provide services, we provide families with one platform, one place that they can go in and they can type in, 'food stamp' or whatever it is that they need," Dr. Melissa Scarpate, Manager of the alabamafamilycentral.org website.
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This statement by Governor Ivey was released in a press release about the Alabama Family Central website.
“Alabama Family Central will assist Alabama citizens to continue to build strong healthy families by ensuring parents and children in our state have access to crucial information and resources from numerous state agencies, service providers, and non-profit organizations,” Governor Ivey said. “Great parents need strong partners. I thank the state agencies and other partners for this wonderful new resource,” Ivey continued.
State agencies and other organizations have teamed up with the website to support families in Alabama. The website is looking for more public service providers to submit their information and possibly team up with the website.
If you are a public service provider and would like to submit a listing in order to pair up with the website, click here. Scarpate said that the form should take two to five minutes to fill out.
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