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Adopting in Georgia
Information about the adoption process. Includes firsthand insight on the adoption experience, you can view videos of parents who went through the adoption process successfully.
Adult Protective Services
Investigates reports of abuse, exploitation, or neglect of elderly or disabled adults who cannot care for themselves.
Babies Can't Wait Program
Babies Can't Wait (BCW) is Georgia's statewide interagency service delivery system for infants and toddlers with developmental delays or disabilities and their families.
Child Abuse & Neglect
Child Protective Services staff investigates reports of child abuse or neglect and provides services to protect the child and strengthen the family.
Child Care Assistance
The State of Georgia's Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) program helps Georgia families pay for early childhood and school age care programs.
Child Support Enforcement
Works to benefit children by enforcing the parental responsibility to pay financial support.
Child Support Online Services
View and update your child support case. You can also apply for services, make a credit or debit card payment, view payments, view court order information, change your address, employer, medical information, and telephone numbers.
Council on Maternal and Infant Health
The Council serves in an advisory capacity to the Governor and all state agencies on matters regarding maternal and infant health care. It advocates for an equitable system of high quality care, necessary to produce the best pregnancy outcomes and child health for Georgia's
Families.
Division of Family and Children Services
The Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) is responsible for welfare and employment support, protecting children, foster care and other services to strengthen families.
Domestic Abuse in Georgia (PDF)
Statistical information on domestic violence in Georgia and support resource information for victims. Adobe Acrobat Format - 36K.
Emergency Food Assistance
A federal program that helps supplement the diets of low-income persons in Georgia.
Family Health
Promotes the physical, mental, spiritual, and social well being of children and families through partnerships with communities.
Family Planning Services
Provided directly by county health departments and contracted agencies utilizing various combinations of federal, state, and locally supported staff.
Family Services
The Division of Family and Children Services has many available services including Energy Assistance, Food Stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Subsidized Child Care, and Adoption Services.
Food Stamps
The Food Stamp program provides monthly benefits to low-income households to help pay for the cost of food.
Foster Care
Foster care is provided for children whose families cannot care for them.
Georgia Poison Center
The State of Georgia's 24-hour poison emergency telephone service providing treatment advice for human and animal poisonings.
Georgia Relay
A service administered by the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to help those who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech disabled to use the phone.
Immunization
Increases immunization rates for all Georgians and decrease the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Infant and Child Health Major Focus Areas
Provides leadership and resources to communities in the development of a comprehensive system of care designed to improve the health and well being of infants and children and their families.
Injury Prevention
Buckle your child up for a safe ride!
Nutrition Links and Resources
Georgia Division of Public Health listing of nutrition links and resources.
PeachCare for Uninsured Kids (Children's Health Insurance)
PeachCare for Kids is a comprehensive health care program for uninsured children living in Georgia. The health benefits include primary, preventive, specialist, dental care and vision care.
Refugee Resettlement
A federally funded program that provides assistance to refugees.
Request Vital Records
Reports on birth, death, fetal deaths (stillbirth), induced termination of pregnancy, marriage and divorce certificates.
SIDS and Other Infant Death Information
Educates the public, especially pregnant women and families of newborns, about reducing the risk of SIDS through early prenatal care.
Subsidized Child Care
Helps families in Georgia pay for early childhood and school age care and education programs.
Substance Abuse Resources
Serves people of all ages with mental illnesses and substance abuse problems.
Summer Jobs 'TeenWork' Program
Employers need workers and children in foster care ages 14-21 need summer jobs. The TeenWork Program provides for online registration of jobs and job candidates.
Teen-Parent Improvement Program
The Teen-Parent Improvement Program is an effort to improve teen parents' lives by giving them a chance to go back to school.
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or welfare, is cash assistance for poor children and their caretakers.
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention
Our goal is to develop and sustain a comprehensive coordinated system for Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention (UNHSI) in Georgia.
Wednesday's Child
Helps find families for children in foster care with special needs who are available for adoption.