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.
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.
Atlanta CASA trains community volunteers to speak up for children in Fulton County foster care. Volunteers learn about each child's life and give advice to the juvenile court judge. Adults 21 and older can sign up to train as volunteers.
Georgia CASA is a statewide nonprofit that helps children in foster care. It supports local CASA programs that train volunteers. Judges appoint these volunteers to speak up for what is best for a child. If you want to volunteer, the group connects you with a CASA program near you.
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.
CHRIS180 is an Atlanta nonprofit that has served children, adults and families since 1981. It offers counseling, foster care and adoption help, and housing and a drop-in center for young adults facing homelessness. You can call the helpline or fill out an intake form to get started.
MAAC is an Atlanta group that helps young people who have been in foster care in Georgia. It works with partner agencies to plan where a youth lives and gives each youth a staff member who follows their case. It also runs programs for leadership, saving money, mental health support, teen parents and job training.
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.
Families First is a Georgia nonprofit that helps families grow stronger. It offers case managers who link families to services, counseling and psychiatric care, parenting and co-parenting classes, and training for foster, kinship and adoptive caregivers. Call the main number to ask about a service.
ICNA Relief Georgia runs a resource center and food pantry on Memorial Drive in Decatur. It also offers help for refugees, Shifa health clinics in Decatur and Duluth, foster care advocacy, and a transitional housing program. You can call or email to ask about each one.
Where Dreams Are Made is a small nonprofit in the East Point/Atlanta area that helps young people ages 15 to 24 build a better future. It runs a youth-operated café that teaches job and business skills, helps teens leaving foster care learn to live on their own, offers substance abuse prevention education, and holds workshops to get students ready for high school and college.
Georgia Parent Support Network is a family-run nonprofit started in 1989. It supports children and youth with mental health and behavior needs, and their families. It runs Youth MOVE Georgia, a peer group for young people, along with a young adult peer center, therapeutic foster care, and peer specialist training.
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 the Georgia state office that helps families and children. You can use it to apply for food stamps (SNAP), cash help, and Medicaid, or to report child abuse. It also runs foster care and helps with child care and energy bills.
ResCare Community Living in Atlanta helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who want residential support. People can get help in their own home, with a host family, or in a small group home. The office also certifies foster parents and places children sent by the Department of Family and Children Services.
Wellroot Family Services is a Christian nonprofit with its main office in Tucker and a second office in Gainesville. It helps children and families with counseling and family therapy, parenting classes, home visits for new parents, short-term housing, and foster care. It also helps young adults who are leaving foster care.
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.
Bethany Christian Services is a faith-based nonprofit that helps children and families through foster care, adoption, and support for immigrant and refugee children without a parent. It also offers home studies, post-adoption support, substance use recovery help, and a program for youth ages 16 to 24 to build life skills and healthy relationships.
Communities In Schools of Atlanta puts caring adults inside partner schools in metro Atlanta to help students stay in school and graduate. Its help includes mentors, reading tutors, small emergency grants for families in crisis, food at school, and support after high school for graduates.
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.
