About Us - Part 2
 |
|
| Key Facts |
PSSF promotes easy access to child and family centered services in communities across the state of Georgia to families at-risk and in crisis in the areas of:
Every child will be secure from abuse and neglect, and will become a healthy, literate, productive, economically self-sustaining citizen within a nurturing, caring, permanent home environment.
|
| Our Families |
Thanks to referrals from hundreds of agencies statewide, more than 18,000 families were referred and served by PSSF Network agencies in 2005. Of these, 55% were two-parent households and 75% had a high school education or less. Nearly two-thirds of these families reported full or part-time employment and 55% earned less than $20,000.
|
| Our Children |
| PSSF-funded programs served over 27,500 children in 2005. More than three-fourths of these children lived with a biological parent or other relative, and 19% were in foster care
|
| Our Work |
Georgia’s PSSF program provides federal funding, training and technical assistance to child welfare organizations to help vulnerable families stay together. Assistance includes services to improve parenting skills, help families in crisis, reunify families whose children have been placed in foster care, and when children cannot be safely reunited with their families, the program works with county DFCS and communities to promote the adoption of children out of the foster care system.
| |
|
| Calendar of Events |
| « November 2008 » |
|
