Benchmark Family Services

The Georgia Center for Resources is a non-profit program operated by Families First since 2002 and contracted by the state of Georgia's Department of Human Services. They provide a resource hub for adoptive and guardian families in Georgia, offering a wide range of services and support, including adoption search, post-adoption services, legal aid, caregiver services, educational resources, medical and mental health services, therapeutic adoption clinicians, and more. With an extensive lending library and online certification courses for adoptive and foster parents, the center aims to support the success and well-being of families in the state.Generated from the website

In 2007 Childkind began offering Family Support Services to its foster families after they had adopted the child in their home. It was a means to continue serving the family and to help support permanency. The program provides assistance accessing Medicaid waiver services, grants for equipment or minor home accessibility modifications, emergency medical supplies, coordination of school-based, community and other neighborhood programs and supports. In an effort to reduce the number of medically fragile and developmentally disabled children entering foster care, Childkind began offering its Transition Support Services Program in December 2008. This program provides placement prevention and early intervention services, targeting families that are having trouble parenting children with medical or developmental challenges, families being reunited with their children after a period of out-of-home care or hospitalization, and families in crises as the result of a major life changing event. Today, Childkind's three program initiatives ' Family Support Services, Transition Support Services, and Placement Services ' form a continuum of care that aim towards a common goal: that children with medical and developmental disabilities live with their own families in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment.

Founded in 1980, Georgia MENTOR is one of the leading national providers of home- and community-based services for individuals with mental and developmental disabilities. The organization offers a variety of services for children and youths with behavioral, emotional and medical disabilities. It provides residential and nonresidential services. The organization supports a core treatment foster care model that is based on one-to-one placement for individuals at homes of trained paraprofessionals. Georgia MENTOR offers adoption, educational, in-home, employment, small group care and supported living services. The organization provides therapeutic foster care, family preservation, reunification, wraparound and medical services. It supports juvenile offender and alternative school programs.