Foster Care

In Georgia, more than 10,000 children and teens are in foster care.

Overview

Children in foster care need supportive, stable homes where they can be guided through important milestones to reach their full potential.

When children in the foster care system are moved from a home, it is estimated that they lose four to six months of academic or developmental progress. Retaining foster families is crucial to helping stabilize the challenges facing children in state care.

Georgia’s Children in Care

Children – from 0 to 18 – enter care due to neglect, abuse, or abandonment. Wellroot Family Services connects these children with nurturing foster families and works with these families to ensure they have the proper training and support every step of the way.

Learn More About Georgia’s Children Support Foster Care Awareness Month

Foster Families

It takes tremendous courage, faith, and trust to become a foster parent. Wellroot provides foster parents with intensive support through their assigned Foster Care Worker, our 24/7 on-call system, access to clothing, diapers, school supplies, and baby equipment, and supplemental financial support through our incidental fund for enrichment for the children in their care.

Interested in Becoming a Foster Parent?

Opening your heart and home to children in need can reshape and improve their sense of security, trust, and self-worth. Wellroot is dedicated to equipping individuals and couples interested in fostering with the resources and knowledge they need to support children in their care and provide them with safe, loving, stable homes.

The need for these homes in Georgia is great. We invite you to learn more about Georgia’s children, the need in your community, and the foster parenting process.

Foster Care Info Sessions

DFCS Referrals

If you’re a DFCS case manager interested in making a referral to our Foster Care, Transitional Living, or Independent Living programs, please contact our Foster Care team at fostercarereferrals@wellroot.org or 404-259-8214 or after hours at 404-518-5637.