Positive Childhood Alliance Georgia is a statewide group based at Georgia State University. It works to prevent child abuse and help families do well. You can call or search online to find family programs near you, take free parenting classes, and join trainings for people who work with children.
The Office of the Child Advocate is an independent Georgia state agency that watches over how the state child welfare system (DFCS) treats children. It looks into complaints about cases where DFCS has been involved. It also trains guardians ad litem and child welfare workers, and it keeps the state's model child abuse protocol. It is not a first responder, so it does not take emergency abuse reports.
Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services is a state agency that works to keep children safe. Staff look into reports of child abuse and neglect and work with the family. The agency also helps with foster care and with food, cash, health coverage, and child care benefits.
DeKalb County CASA trains and supports community volunteers who speak up for abused and neglected children in DeKalb Juvenile Court. The volunteers work to help each child reach a safe, lasting home as fast as possible. People who want to volunteer can join a free-to-register online orientation to learn how it works.
Georgia DFCS is the state agency for family and children's services. On its website and in Georgia Gateway you can start applications for food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, cash help (TANF), and energy help. It also takes reports of child abuse and works with foster and adoptive families.
This is Georgia's state agency for family and children's services. It helps families apply for food benefits, cash help, and Medicaid. It also takes reports of child abuse, and it runs foster care and adoption services.
youthSpark is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps teens who have been hurt, exploited, or are at risk. Its Youth Services Center offers case management, counseling, support groups, and help in court and at school for young people ages 12 to 18 in Fulton County. It also trains adults and groups to spot warning signs and speak up for youth.
Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia is the statewide group that supports Georgia's 53 Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs). These local centers help children after abuse. The group also trains forensic nurses, and it helps families find the CAC that serves them.
The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy helps children who have been sexually abused, seriously physically abused, or who saw a violent crime. It offers free forensic interviews, support for families, and trauma therapy for children and their caregivers in Fulton and DeKalb counties. It also trains adults and professionals across Georgia to prevent child abuse.
This is the Georgia state agency that looks into reports of child abuse and neglect and works to keep children safe. It also helps people become foster or adoptive caregivers, and it runs benefits like SNAP, cash help, Medicaid, and energy help. Most benefits can be applied for online through Georgia Gateway.
ARCHI is a group of more than 100 hospitals, nonprofits, and other partners working to make health fairer in metro Atlanta. It runs a single online application for rent, mortgage, and utility help, and a referral network where community health workers connect people to food, housing, and care. It also leads projects on high blood pressure and holds public trainings and events.
Revved Up Kids is a nonprofit that teaches children, teens, parents, schools and youth groups how to stay safe from sexual abuse, trafficking and online predators. They teach self-defense and safety classes in person, on Zoom and by video. Groups can ask for private training, and public classes are offered from time to time around metro Atlanta.
This is the Georgia state agency that runs family and children's services. Through its website and Georgia Gateway, you can apply for Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), TANF cash help, energy help, and more. It also takes child abuse reports and works with foster and adoptive families.
The Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is a state agency. It runs money help and programs for crime victims, and it gives out grants for criminal justice and victim service groups. It also leads Georgia's work against human trafficking, including a statewide hotline.
Frontline Response is a Christian nonprofit in Atlanta. It works with people who are homeless and with people caught in sex trafficking, and it runs programs for children. This winter it is teaming up with the City of Decatur and DeKalb County on a warming center for people without housing on dangerously cold nights.
Arthur M. Blank Hospital is a children's hospital in Atlanta, run by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. It has an emergency department that is open 24 hours. It also has many kinds of specialty care for kids and teens, such as cancer and blood disorders, heart care, and brain and bone care.
This is the Fulton County South office of Georgia's Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS) in College Park. It is mostly used for child welfare work. Since August 1, 2025, people who used to come here to apply for SNAP, TANF, or medical help go to the Fulton County DHS office on Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy. This office only has self-service options for those benefits.
This is the Georgia state agency that helps children and families. It takes reports of child abuse, supports foster and adoptive families, and runs benefit programs such as SNAP, TANF and Medicaid. It also has a group program for adopted and guardianship teens.
Neighbor To Family is a foster care agency that places brothers and sisters together in the same foster home. It works in Florida, Georgia, and Maryland. A team supports the children, their families, and the foster caregivers as they work toward a safe, lasting home.
Georgia Cares is a nonprofit that works across Georgia to help children and teens who have been sexually exploited or trafficked, or who are at risk. It keeps a 24-hour hotline. Its licensed social workers check what each young person needs and help set up care, a safe place to stay, and follow-up.
