Ciara Green, LCFW

Ciara Green is currently CEO of Family Ties, Inc., a social service agency serving over 6,000 families a year in the metropolitan Atlanta area. She also serves as Chief Compliance Officer of the agency’s parent company - Family Ties Enterprises.

Ciara has had an extensive career in social work. As an undergrad, she worked with at-risk and special needs youth in Lee County, Opelika Alabama. As a graduate student, she counseled at-risk teenage females placed in group homes. Her philosophy was an intent to create spaces where youth could be exposed to opportunities not readily available in their current lives. (She continues to mentor some of those same women today.) In 2007, Ciara changed course slightly and began working at the International Rescue Committee providing marriage and resettlement counseling to newly arrived refugees. Later, she accepted a position at the Veterans Hospital working with U.S. veterans experiencing psychiatric and community adjustment challenges. As her career developed, Ciara began working at her family’s mental health agency. Today, as CEO of a company with a 28+ year history in Georgia, her focus is on children and adolescents suffering from abuse, neglect or carrying a diagnosed mental illness. Ciara has moved the agency to a focus on trauma-based work, evidence-based interventions and therapeutic didactics that center on such work.

Under her management, Family Ties provides care to families in 13 Georgia counties and employs over 165 clinicians through contracts with the Departments of Juvenile Justice; the Department of Children and Family services; local and regional hospitals; 4 major school systems servicing 102 schools for in school mental health counseling, and governing boards across Georgia.

Ciara is also the owner of All Things Sublime LLC - a merger of her catering business and lifestyle blog. It has been featured on the national level by multiple media sites and had recipe content published in the cookbook, Grandmas and Grandkids: Legacies of Love and Wisdom. The lifestyle blog focuses on cooking, traveling adventures, parenting milestones, crafting, literature, and fashion intended to captivate and encourage her readers to live in the moment with the ones who matter most. The blog mirrors Ciara’s motto of “family always takes precedent over any work she takes on.”

For community work, Ciara is on the Advisory Board of Hughes Spalding Hospital. She is also on the Advisory Board of the National Center on Child Trafficking in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. Ciara is Co-Chairman of the Pace Academy Diversity and Inclusion Committee; Co-Chairman of the Pace Academy Lower School Hospitality, and Co Chair of the Pace Fund (annual school giving). She is a member of the Atlanta Speech School Guild Board. She is Auction Co Chair of the 2023 Children’s Hospital of Atlanta Hope and Will Ball and the Co Chair of the 2023 Atlanta Speech School Language and Literacy Gala. She is a 2019 recipient of the “Women Shaping the World” Award by Women in Wealth Magazine. She is a recipient of the 2022 Bold and Fearless Award winner in the Health and Wellness category from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women Stone Mtn Lithonia chapter. She has sat on tasks force for past governors around CSEC (commercial and sexually exploited youth) and is an avid partner with the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy on that platform.

Born in New York City, she moved to Georgia at a young age. Prior to attending university, Ciara graduated from the LEAD Business Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Business. She received her B.A. from Auburn University (British Literature concentration and Spanish minor) and her Masters in Social Work from the University of Georgia. She is Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Ciara is married to her high school sweetheart, Edward with two young children. She and Edward focus their philanthropy on mental health, food access for families of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds, STEM and Art programs for at-risk youth, and ensuring the underrepresented have a voice.

Family Ties Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1994, to provide intensive home-based counseling and community integration services for families and children. Our professional staff is comprised of a Psychiatrist, Licensed Psychologist, Licensed and Masters level Clinicians, Behavioral Aides, Parent Educators, Substance Abuse Counselors, Certified Domestic Violence Counselors and Educators, Anger Management Counselors and Educators, Therapist certified in Play Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT, DBT and Stress Management. Family Ties is presently providing services in Cobb, Clayton, Coweta, Dekalb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry and Rockdale County.

Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark District 108

Dr. Jasmine Clark was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 26, 1982. At a very young age, Jasmine realized her passion for the sciences and aspired to follow in the footsteps of her father and one day be a doctor. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, with a concentration in microbiology, from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2005. She then went on to receive her doctoral degree from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School in microbiology and molecular genetics in 2013 after publishing her work on retroviral particle tracking using live cell imaging microscopy. Subsequently, in 2014, she completed a postdoctoral project at Emory University, studying high-throughput sequencing of HIV patient samples. Jasmine currently serves as a lecturer of microbiology and human anatomy and physiology at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. On November 6, 2018, she was elected to the Georgia State House of Representatives, where she currently serves as the state representative of House District 108, covering the Lilburn and Mountain Park areas of Gwinnett County.

Along with her academic and professional accomplishments, Jasmine is a mother of two, currently residing in the Lilburn/Tucker area of Gwinnett County.

When she is not teaching at Emory or legislating at the State Capitol, you can usually find her at one of her children’s soccer games or track meets, or with a microphone in her hand singing karaoke. Her personal philosophy can be summed up in the following quote by the late Maya Angelou: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Clark is a member of the Democratic party. Clark ran for re-election and won in the general election on November 8, 2022. She assumed office on January 14, 2019. Her current term ends on January 13, 2025.

Rep. Chuck Efstration

District 104

Charles P. Efstration, III (“Chuck”) represents House District 104, which includes the Dacula, Lawrenceville, Auburn, Braselton and Bethlehem areas of Gwinnett County. A former assistant district attorney and Chairman of the Gwinnett County Republican Party, Chuck Efstration was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives on December 13, 2013.

Efstration grew up in Gwinnett County, earned his Eagle Scout with a Gwinnett Boy Scout troop and graduated from Greater Atlanta Christian School. Chuck’s mother was a longtime educator with Gwinnett County Public Schools, beginning her teaching career in 1973. Chuck’s father worked at the Western Electric factory in Gwinnett County in the early 1970s after graduating from Georgia Tech and receiving an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. Chuck is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs, where he earned his degree in three years. While an undergraduate student, Chuck worked in two legislative sessions of the Georgia General Assembly, serving as an aide to the governor’s floor leader and as an aide to the Senate Public Safety Committee. Efstration went on to obtain his Juris Doctor from Mercer Law School in Macon. At Mercer, Chuck was a competition member of the moot court team and was elected by his peers as chief justice of the Honor Court.

After graduating from law school, Chuck returned to his hometown area of Dacula and worked in law enforcement as a felony prosecutor. As a Gwinnett County assistant district attorney, Efstration conducted jury and bench trials prosecuting offenses including murder, rape, armed robbery, child molestation, drug possession and sale, domestic violence, computer crimes, DUI and theft. Efstration assisted in criminal investigations, served as an instructor at the Gwinnett County Police Academy and authored several appellate briefs to the Court of Appeals of Georgia and the Supreme Court of Georgia. Chuck also served as a prosecutor for Juvenile Court and the Gwinnett County Drug Court program. Chuck has spent many years assisting conservative candidates for office. In 2009-2010, Chuck served as Chairman of the Gwinnett County Republican Party. Chuck is also a former Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans.

Today, Chuck owns a small business law firm in the Lawrenceville area, and he has been married to his wife, Ashley Leachman Efstration, since 2014. Chuck is a Greek Orthodox Christian. He serves as an officer in the Gwinnett County Bar Association and as a volunteer coach for the Greater Atlanta Christian School mock trial team. In his free time, Chuck enjoys hiking and is an avid University of Georgia football fan. Efstration ran for re-election and won in the general election on November 8, 2022. His current term ends on January 13, 2025.

During the 2019 legislative session, she introduced legislation that would create a grant program to encourage certain physicians to practice in underserved areas of the state. Rep. Schofield has also advocated for expanding Medicaid and has helped pass homestead exemptions for senior citizens in her district. She has also worked to improve workplace equity, pay equity, and she advocates for environmental justice and agriculture. Kim’s professional career spans across healthcare, financial, transportation, education and non-profit agencies. Kim has more than 15 years of experience in consulting, coaching, teaching, training workshops and engagement seminars, bringing alignment within political, corporate, community, law enforcement, healthcare and faithbased organizations. Kim is a small business owner. As a personal development strategist, her coaching practice, Other People’s Potential Coaching, works with individuals and organizations to position them for maximizing their capacity.

Kim holds a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Theology and Organizational Leadership, and a Doctorate from Oral Roberts University. In her health policy work, Kim was appointed by former Governor Nathan Deal to serve as the Chair of the Georgia Council on Lupus Education and Awareness. She holds a federal appointment to the Health IT Policy Committee and crafts legislative policy recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health IT as a framework for the development and adoption of a nationwide health information infrastructure. Kim has also worked as a lupus research specialist at the Emory School of Medicine, and she serves as an Advocacy Chair for the Georgia Chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America. Kim has authored several articles and has been a recurring guest on television, radio and other media outlets. Kim is the proud mother of her daughter, Kyler, a 2012 graduate of Duke University; Kyler is an assistant director in film and television and a member of the Directors Guild of America.

Kim Schofield is a member of the Democratic Party, and is also a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, District 63. Schofield ran for re-election and won in the general election on November 8, 2022. She assumed office on January 9, 2023. Her current term ends on January 13, 2025.

Rep. Dr. Kim Schofield

District 63

State Representative Kim Schofield serves the citizens of House District 63, which includes areas of Southeast Atlanta, East Point, College Park, Forest Park and Hapeville. She was elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 2017 and serves on the Small Business Development, Interstate Cooperation and Health and Human Service Committees. She is an appointed member to the Atlanta Commission on Women. As a public servant, Kim lives out her core values of access, action and accountability. Rep. Schofield is passionate about addressing issues that impact House District 60, such as access to quality health care, affordable housing, education and protecting senior citizens.