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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.
Apply for Social Services
COMPASS (Common Point of Access to Social Services) provides a quick, easy way to apply for food stamps and find if you're eligible for other social services.
Assistance to Needy Families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or welfare, is cash assistance for poor children and their caretakers.
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 Occupant Safety Program
Buckle your child up for a safe ride!
Child Support Enforcement
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, and change contact information.
Council on Maternal and Child Health
The Council advises the Governor and state agencies maternal and child health care issues.
Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS)
Responsible for welfare, food stamps, protecting children, foster care and adoption, child 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.
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.
Immunization
Increases immunization rates for all Georgians and decrease the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases.
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.
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.
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.