Programs & Services
Flowering Branch Children’s Center
A short-term residence for children and youth who have been abused, neglected or abandoned.
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A Better Way Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)
The goal of a CAC is to reduce the trauma to children and youth who have made allegations of sexual or severe physical abuse. The reporting process is designed to be a single event overseen and followed up by a Multidisciplinary Team which includes law enforcement, medical and child protective services. Read more…
Rainbows
Rainbows is a support group for children who have suffered significant loss in their lives, either through death, divorce, or other painful transitions. A caring, trained adult guides the support group, which meets at local schools or churches once a week for approximately 40 minutes. Read more…
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
A program through which volunteers work on behalf of the best interests of abused and neglected children while the Court considers where the children should be placed to live and if their parents will ever be allowed to regain custody Read More...
TransParenting™
This program helps divorcing parents know how to help their children adjust to many changes brought on by divorce. It fulfills the state’s requirement for divorcing parents of children under 18. Read more…
VolunTeens
Are you a young person who wants to make a difference? Why not become a VolunTeen? Read more…
Jacob’s Ladder Mentoring Program
It is our goal to provide every youth who comes to Flowering Branch Children’s Shelter with a mentor – someone who will be a dependable friend to him or her in order that each young person’s safety and self-worth will be nurtured. Volunteers are always needed for this worthwhile program. Read more…
First Steps Program
Through our First Steps program new mothers receive a post-partum visit from a trained volunteer who provides them with a packet of information about how to care for her infant, community resources and a 24 hour “warm line” phone number to call if she feels overwhelmed. Volunteers routinely follow up for three months with the mothers and refer them to on-going help if needed. Read more…
Project Safe Place
Businesses and other public places volunteer to become a designated Safe Place. Eye-catching yellow and black Safe Place signs mark these locations, and young people who feel they may be in danger can seek help wherever they see a Safe Place sign. Read more…
Supervised Family Visitation
Advocates’ Family Visitation Program is committed to offering local families, referred by the Division of Family and Children Services, the opportunity to share in quality, purposeful supervised visitation services. Read more…
Child Abuse Prevention and Community Awareness
Advocates for Children proudly serves as the official community-based Chartered Council for Prevent Child Abuse (PCA) Georgia. Network members have provided leadership for the prevention of child maltreatment in Georgia for more than 25 years, and we share the core principles of valuing children, strengthening families, and engaging communities. Read more…