An important element of Georgia's child welfare program is the development of a strengths-based, prevention-driven community response to vulnerable children and families. Each year, Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services issues a "Statement of Need" to seek proposals from non-profit organizations and public entities to provide coordinated community-based programs and services.
A statewide needs assessment is conducted annually to identify family and community service needs through:
Consultation with Division leadership, unit, and program managers.
An online survey for regional and county directors, administrators, supervisors, and case managers.
Input from service providers and community stakeholders representing all PSSF program areas and service models.
The annual Statement of Need (SoN) incorporates feedback from all sources in response to changing family needs, community resources, and state and federal priorities.
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FFY2023 Network Service Providers
141 programs were selected from more than 180 proposals submitted.
In Georgia, service models in each of the four PSSF program categories are designed to reinforce and support the priorities identified in the state's five-year Child & Family Services Plan. Service plans must include evidence-based programs, practices and/or strategies proven effective in meeting the needs of children and their families.
Prevention & Early Intervention (FSS/PEI):
Voluntary, in-home or center-based supports and services to help families identify and address family issues that threaten child safety, strengthen family protective capacity, reducing the risk of CPS intervention.
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Home Visiting (FSS/HVS):
Voluntary, evidence-based, in-home services that support positive parent-child relationships, child health and development, parental self-sufficiency, and safe home environments to prevent child abuse and neglect.
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Healthy Relationship & Co-Parenting (FSS/HMI):
Services designed to build and maintain healthy partnerships, identify and manage stress that threatens relationships, and promote and support life-long parental or co-parenting relationships.
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Supports & Services for Homeless Youth (FSS/SHY):
Services and supports to help unaccompanied homeless youth or victims of sexual exploitation transition to independent living and become self-sufficient through community involvement and relationships, education, employment, health and safety
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Placement Prevention (FPS/PPS):
Short-term services and supports to address caregiver characteristics or child behavior to ensure child safety and reduce the risk of child removal from the home and placement in foster care.
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Crisis Intervention (FPS/CIS):
Short-term, in-home interventions (therapeutic and non-therapeutic) available 24/7 to support families in crisis where children are at risk for removal or placement disruption or are transitioning to a new placement after a disruption.
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Relative Caregiver/Kinship Family (FPS/RCS):
Services for grandparents and relative caregivers who are primary caregivers of children other than their own to address caregiver capacity, family functioning, child well-being and placement stability.
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Residential/Post-Placement Aftercare (FPS/RAC) :
Therapeutic services, available 2-3 months pre-discharge and 6-9 months post-discharge, to support the reintegration of children into their homes and communities and/or to sustain treatment outcomes to prevent placement disruption.
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Substance Abuse TX & Recovery Support (FPS/STR) :
Services to prevent abandonment, maltreatment or child removal due to caregiver substance abuse, and/or to support reunification and prevent relapse.
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Supervised Family Visitation (TLR/SFV):
Services to increase the frequency, quality and consistency of the interactions of children in foster care with their parents, their siblings in different placements, or to visit with extended family members or other significant adults in less restrictive but secure, non-threatening environments.
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Child and Family Advocacy (TLR/CFA):
Services and supports for children involved in dependency proceedings to advocate for timely permanency decisions that are in the best interest of the child. Services ensure that the needs of children are met and families receive needed supports so that children who must be removed from their home maintain connections to their families and communities.
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Parent Reunification (TLR/PRS):
Services to assist caregivers in their efforts to address behaviors that resulted in the placement of their children in foster care, satisfy the conditions set forth in their case plans, and help prepare for the return of children to the home.
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Adoption Promotion (APP/APS):
Services to encourage and support adoption or relative guardianship and/or to prevent disruption/dissolution of adoptions.
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Transition & Emancipation (APP/TES):
Services to help youth transitioning, or who have transitioned, out of foster care develop skills for independent living and establish meaningful adult connections.
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