17 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Lifeline Children's Services is a Christian child welfare and family services organization. They help with adoption, pregnancy option counseling, foster care support, parent coaching, counseling, and education services for children and families.
12 services
Georgia Sheriffs' Youth Homes runs residential homes for Georgia children ages 6 to 16 who need a stable place to live. Children live in cottages with houseparents, attend public school, and receive food, clothing, tutoring, life skills, recreation, and spiritual, physical, and emotional support.
9 services
Multi-Agency Alliance for Children, or MAAC, helps young people in Georgia who have experienced foster care. They coordinate placements, services, support, financial education, teen parenting help, advocacy, and mental health wraparound supports through programs and partner agencies.
Downtown6 services
ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit based in Washington, DC that focuses on babies and toddlers from birth to age 3. It helps parents, caregivers, professionals, courts, health systems, and policymakers with early childhood resources, training, child welfare system support, infant mental health work, and advocacy.
13 services
Chosen Care was a nonprofit that helped foster, adoptive, kinship, and reunified families care for children with trauma. Its website now says Chosen has closed direct services and sends families seeking parent coaching or support to Connection Plus.
1 service
Bloom Our Youth, now branded as Bloom, supports Georgia children and families affected by foster care. They recruit and support foster families, provide free clothing and supplies through Bloom Closet, and help older youth who have been in foster care build skills and find resources.
7 services
Creative Community Services is a Georgia nonprofit that helps children and teens in foster care and adults with developmental disabilities or mental health needs. It provides therapeutic foster care, kinship foster care support, host home support for adults with disabilities, and coaching for pregnant or parenting teens in foster care.
5 services
Wellroot Family Services helps children, youth, and families in Georgia heal and stay stable. They provide foster care support, family housing help, counseling, parenting support, home visits for new parents, and housing and life-skills support for young adults leaving foster care or facing homelessness.
12 services
Inspiritus helps refugees, immigrants, children in foster care, people with developmental disabilities, disaster survivors, and low-income communities. In metro Atlanta, they offer refugee support, immigration legal help, foster care support, disability residential services, disaster recovery help, and small-business lending through Thrive Community Lending.
Midtown12 services
Families First is a Georgia nonprofit that helps families build stability and resilience. Its Decatur office offers appointment-only navigator support, behavioral health help, and parenting services.
16 services
Goshen Valley helps foster youth, foster families, and local families in Cherokee County and nearby areas. Its Family Resource Center offers mental health help, family support, referrals, a food pantry, and community events. It also runs foster care, independent living, and counseling programs.
8 services
Bethany Christian Services is a faith-based nonprofit that helps children and families through foster care, adoption, post-adoption support, and services for unaccompanied immigrant children. Its Atlanta office also lists youth relationship education through DREAMS-4U and virtual foster care information meetings.
8 services
Georgia DFCS is a state agency that helps Georgia families apply for benefits and get child and family support. It handles SNAP food benefits, Medicaid applications, TANF cash help, energy assistance, child abuse reports, foster care, and adoption services.
9 services
Georgia Agape is a faith-based, nonprofit social services agency that has helped Georgia children and families since 1970. They place children with adoptive and foster families, and they support women facing an unplanned pregnancy with counseling, resources, and adoption planning. They are a licensed child-placing agency.
5 services
ISDD (Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage & Disability) helps grandparents and other relatives who are raising children, especially children with disabilities or special health needs. Their main program, Project GRANDD, offers free support groups, one-on-one case management, help with school plans (IEP/504) and legal guardianship, tutoring, respite care, and limited food and clothing assistance. The goal is to keep kids out of foster care by supporting the family members already caring for them.
9 services
Christian City is a faith-based nonprofit in Union City that helps children and families in crisis and also runs a senior living community. For kids and teens it offers residential care, foster care and adoption, a 24/7 emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, and support for young adults aging out of foster care. For older adults it offers assisted living, skilled nursing and rehab, and affordable senior patio homes.
8 services
Little Debbie's Second Chance Home is a nonprofit (founded 2004, CARF-accredited) that runs structured, home-like residential programs for displaced teens ages 14-18, including pregnant and parenting teens and their babies. They provide safe housing, life-skills and parenting training, education and job-readiness support, counseling, and foster-parent training and child placement. They also serve young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
7 services
