The Multi-Agency Alliance for Children (MAAC) is a collaborative effort focused on helping youth who have experienced foster care in the state of Georgia overcome their unique challenges and find success. We refuse to let these young people fall through the cracks. MAAC is dedicated to filling service gaps and building innovative solutions within the child welfare system by collaborating…
At Goshen New Beginnings our mission is to lead older foster youth into lifelong thriving independence. We care for 18 to 21 year old youth who elect to stay in the state foster care system. Their core services provide assistance with education, employment, and life skills.
The G&Co ILP provides transitional living assistance to qualified 18-21 year old young adults aging out of the foster care system in southern Georgia. Our program is designed to provide all expenses for apartment style housing complete with rent, utilities, groceries, furniture, access to extracurricular activities and much more. Our young adults participate in a 13+month program that guides them…
The Hope 4 Tomorrow Mentoring Program (H4T) provides guidance and resources for displaced pre-teens and teens to help ensure their successful future. Our collaboration with various community partners promotes academic, lifestyle and financial excellence for the youth.
Connections Homes is a faith-based nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting young adults to families. Every year in our country an estimated 85,000 young men and women between the ages of 18 – 24 are living life unconnected to family or any caring stable adult. Connections Homes is committed to changing the outcomes for this forgotten population by connecting them with…
We are a nonprofit, 501C3 Corporation and a residential care facility which provides services for homeless children from 0-17 years of age along with their young mothers. We also provide care and services for homeless girls aging out of the foster care system at 18 years of age. We provide customized “Life Plans” that are designed around the physical, emotional…
EDSI (Educational Data Systems, Inc.) is a national workforce development, talent solutions and consulting company with a passion for helping people and companies in transition. EDSI works with regions, employers and jobseekers to overcome their most challenging obstacles.
The purpose of the study was to describe life experiences of children aging out of the foster care system from the perspectives of adults who have successfully navigated this transition. (Dissertation, Georgia State University)
Stars Training Academy, a division of Stars Behavioral Health Group, collaborates with community agencies across North America to provide enriched training and customized consultation to achieve high fidelity and sustainable implementation of evidence-supported and evidence-based practices. The Stars Training Academy serves as the purveyor of the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model.
H4T provides guidance for teens in foster or relative foster. Our collaboration with community partners, corporations, and the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services promotes academic, lifestyle and financial excellence for the teens. Training is provided to prepare mentors for working with the youth.