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State & National Foster Parent Associations

 

National Foster Parent Association

Adoptive and Foster Parent Association of Georgia

 

Child Care Resource and Referral (R&R) Agencies
Georgia has a network of child care resource and referral (R&R) agencies to help families locate child care providers. The R&R staff member can give you a list of child care providers who meet your criteria.

 

Bright from the Start: Department of Early Care and Learning
Bright From the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) is responsible for meeting the child care and early education needs of Georgia's children and their families. Bright from the Start oversees a wide range of programs focused primarily on children ages birth to school age and their families, including licensing and monitoring all center-based and home-based child care facilities.

 

Project Safe Childhood - A Department of Justice initiative website that aims to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children.

 

For more information, contact an Afterschool Services Staff Member at 404.657.4651 or Email to afterschool@dhr.ga.gov

You may also visit the DHR Afterschool Services website at www.afterschoolservices.net.

 

 

Community Links

 

Medicaid Website - Search for Doctors and specialist.

Safe Kids Cherokee County- is a global network of organizations whose mission is to prevent accidental childhood injury, a leading killer of children 14 and under.

 

National Sex Offenders List - Free national US search for registered sex offenders

Family Watchdog - Website to search for registered sex offenders in your area and neighborhood.

Cybertipline - Report child sexual exploitation including the possession, manufacture, and/or distribution of child pornography; online enticement; child prostitution; child sex tourism; extra familial child sexual molestation; and unsolicited obscene material sent to a child. Tip line is open 24 hours 7 days a week or call 1-800-843-5678.

 

Missing Kids - The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Net Smartz Kids - An educational and interactive safety resource that teaches children how to stay safe while using the internet.

Darkness2light - Organization that educates adults about the steps they can take to prevent child sexual abuse.

Rad Kids - Personal safety and violence prevention program for children.

Adopt Us Kids - Recruit and connect foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States.

 

 

Home Security and Safety Games and Activities for Kids

Safety education is important to make sure that children understand how to react in the event of an emergency, and how to avoid unnecessary safety risks. Talking openly and constructively about personal safety and important safety precautions is an important part of a child’s education; children should feel comfortable expressing concerns with their parents and teachers. To jump-start the discussion of safety, use any of the following safety oriented games to introduce the topic and reinforce basic safety concepts. Educators should make themselves available to students with any questions, remind student’s that they are important and show children that their safety is important to those around them.

 

Bus Safety Games – Play these school bus safety games to learn how to stay safe while riding the bus.

Food SafetyFight the bacteria in these fun food safety games.

Halloween Safety – Choose your Halloween custom and learn about Halloween safety.

Home Safety – An interactive game focused on how to stay safe at home and avoid accidents and injury.

Electricity Word Search – Find the important electricity terms in this electrical safety word search.

Hazard Hunters – Find the hazards in each room of the house in this home safety game.

Fire Safety – Learn about fire safety with Smokey the Bear.

Fireman Sam – Follow Sam the fireman to learn about fire safety.

Firework Safety – Test your knowledge of firework safety with Ben.

Fire Escape Plan – Draw out a fire escape plan to help you get out of the house safely if there is a fire.

Gun Safety Maze – Help the girl get out of the gun maze safely.

Poison Word Search – This “Yukky Stuff” word search is a fun way to learn about poison prevention.

Play Safe Activities – This printable coloring book is a great way to introduce general safety tips.

Weather Emergencies – Learn what you need to do to stay safe during weather emergencies with this fact or fiction activity.

Winter Weather – A winter weather word search game for children.

Weather Safety Crossword – This printable crossword puzzle is all about weather safety.

Lightening Safety – Follow Leon the Lion and play this lightening safety game.

Disaster Kit Picture Search – Can you identify all of the safety kit things in this picture?

Call 9-1-1 – Practice calling 9-1-1 in case of an emergency.

Kitchen Safety – This printable kitchen safety activity is great for testing your knowledge of safety.

Water safety – A variety of water safety activities for children.

Bike Safety Comic – Learn about bike safety in this kid’s safety comic book.

Bike & Road Safety – Test your knowledge of bike and road safety with these interactive games.

Train Safety – Take the Safe Trax Challenge and learn about important train safety.

Pedestrian Safety – Play this Stop, Look, and Listen game to practice pedestrian safety.

Safety Matters – A bunch of road safety and awareness games to test your knowledge of personal safety.

Stranger Safety – Learn how to stay safe when you are around strangers or a person whom you don’t know approaches you.

Stranger Danger Worksheets – Learn how to keep yourself safe if you are approached by a stranger.

The Stranger Song – This song is great and helps to reinforce children’s safety knowledge.

Internet Safety – Follow McGruff the crime dog and learn about Internet safety.

Beach Safety – Play these beach safety games before hitting the beaches this summer.

Water Safety – Wild Over Waterways challenges kids to learn about water safety with this interactive game.

Sun Safety Games – Tons of activities about sun safety and how to protect yourself this summer.

Farm Safety – Different farm safety games for kids; both electronic and printable games.

 

Mental Health Links

 

National Association of School Psychologists (academic concerns):  www.nasponline.org
Learning disabilities:  www.ldonline.org
National Institute of Mental Health (wide range of behavioral and emotional health topics):  www.nimh.nih.gov
Children and Adults with ADHD (CHADD):  www.chadd.org
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:  www.aacap.org
Speech and Hearing Clinic at UGA:  http://www.coe.uga.edu/csdclinic/scheduling.html
American Psychological Association (APA) (wide range of mental health topics):  www.apa.org 
Georgia Department of Education:  http://www.doe.k12.ga.us 
Kids Health:  www.kidshealth.org (A medical information site)
Autism Society of America:  http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer

Trauma can be emotional or physical. This site primarily deals with emotional trauma. Attachment Disorder Support Group

ALCOHOL/DRUG AWARENESS EDUCATION (ADAE) Operation 21

Foster Parent Links

 

Independent Living Program - Joyce L. Atwell, Region 17, jlbuehner@dhr.state.ga.us, program for children from 14 - 21.

Foster Care Support Foundation - Provides clothes and equipment for foster children.

Embrace - Has partnered with DFCS in support of foster families and to protect and the children of our State. Cherokee Counties Foster Parent Liaison, Amy Blanton amy.blanton@embracega.org, 770-356-5102.

My Kids Eat Free! - Check out this site next time you and your family want to eat out.  Just chose what city your in and it will list all restaurants that offer kids eat free.

 

Club Z! In-Home Tutoring Services - Mention you are a Cherokee County Foster Parent

MOMSLIKEME.COM - Where Atlanta Moms Meet

Child Welfare

Dream House for Medically Fragile Children

Gilmer Friends of Foster and Adoptive Families

Foster Parent College
My Turn Now
Fostering Parenting Message Board
Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children
North Georgia Foster Parents Support
Attach -
Association for Treatment and Training of Children
Funology A fun site for Kids
Parents Soup, (Great Site for Information)
Foster Care & Adoptive Community with Online Training

 

Online Support Groups

 

Sunflower Birthmom Support Page
Online Support for Birthmoms

Norcap - Supporting adults who are adopted
Whose Child? Adoption Forum Triad Consulting

 

Adoption Support Groups and Search Resources

 

Adoptees can write for their "non-identifying information."  This is a list by state - http://www.adopting.org/non_id.html


List of search and support groups around the United States, it is down for now, but should be back soon - http://home.comcast.net/~paadoptionreunionregistry/BluePage.htm


Free International Soundex Reunion Registry - http://www.isrr.org
Search Finders of California - http://www.searchfindersofcalifornia.com
Salvation Army Booth Babies info - http://salvationarmy-usaeast.org/find/booth_babies.htm
Emergency Medical Locators - http://www.adoption-free-search.org/registrationpage.htm
Research all branches of the military - www.militarycity.com


The Colombia Adoption Sibling Registry through yahoo groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColombiaAdoptSibRegistry
The Little Prince - support and hope to adoptive parents who have a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) - http://www.thelittleprince.org


Family History Centers - http://www.genhomepage.com/FHC/fhc.html
Phone Searches a fee service - http://www.phonesearchcentral.com
Public Records Locator - http://www.searchsystems.net
Births, deaths and marriage records - http://vitalrec.com
Government listing of public records - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/alphabet.htm
Links for state and county records - http://publicrecords.netronline.com
Origins Canada an international organization which supports those separated by adoption - http://www.originscanada.org
Search information for the United States
Search Information for Canada
Registration information for siblings from donor insemination
International Search Information

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse http://naic.acf.hhs.gov
Adoption History Project http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adoption
Bastardette Blogspot http://www.bastardette.blogspot.com
William Gage’s extensive directory of adoption related literature - http://members.aol.com/billgage/lit-list.htm
Birthmother Research Project - http://home.att.net/~judy.kelly/thesis.htm
Online Adoptee Law Library - http://www.chrisphilippo.com
Vietnam Babylift adoptees - http://www.vietnambabylift.org


Wake up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade and Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States by Rickie Solinger – Available on http://www.barnesandnoble.com

 

Organizations that Support Openness and Honesty in Adoption

 

Bastard Nation - http://www.bastards.org
Adoptee Rights News Blog for up-to-date information - http://adopteerightsnews.blogspot.com
Concerned United Birthparents - http://www.cubirthparents.org
Post Adoption Center for Education & Research - http://www.pacer-adoption.org
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute - http://www.adoptioninstitute.org
Center For Family Connections - http://www.kinnect.org
Child Welfare League of American - http://www.cwla.org
Child Welfare Institute - http://www.gpcwi.org
American Adoption Congress - http://www.americanadoptioncongress.org
Adoption Mentoring - http://www.adoptionmentoring.org
The Mothers Project - http://themothersproject.com
Ethica, a Voice for Ethical Adoption - http://www.ethicanet.org
Filipino Adoptees Network (FAN) - http://www.filipino-adoptees-network.org
Adoptee advocacy organization in France - http://www.x-en-colere.org
Canadian Council of Natural Mothers - http://www.ccnm-mothers.ca
Origins USA - http://www.geocities.com/inquiry_usa
Bay Area Birthmothers Association - http://www.bayareabirthmothers.org
Connected Indian Roots - http://freenet-homepage.de/connectedindianroots
Unplanned Pregnancy Without Crisis - http://www.motherhelp.info

 

Books, Articles and Information

 

The Sound of Hope: A True Story of an Adoptees Quest for her Origins by Anne Bauer
Shea's Search Series -
A Definitive Guide to Self-Empowered Adoptee Search
Artwork
by Lina Eve
Adoption greeting cards and photographs
by Patrick McMahon
Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Adoption
by Mirah Riben
A Birthmother's View of Adoption: Suggestions for Reform
by Heather Lowe
Birthparent Grief
by Brenda Romanchik
New Directions in Adoption
and Taking the Crisis out of Pregnancy by Laurie Frisch
A Ghost At Heart's Edge
by Susan Ito and Tina Cervin
Chasing Away the Shadows; An Adoptee's Journey to Motherhood
by Zara Phillips
Alison Larkin, adoptee and performer - http://www.alisonlarkin.com
Adoption Wisdom
by Marlou Russell, PhD
The Family of Adoption
by Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao

The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child
and Coming Home to Self by Nancy Verrier
Lifelong Issues in Adoption - The 7 Core Issues
by Deborah N. Silverstein and Sharon Kaplan
Talking to Your Adopted Adolescent About Adoption
by Randolph W. Severson
Fumbling Toward Divinity: The Adoption Scriptures
by Craig Hickman
Adoption Stories
of Search and Connection
Adoption Nation
by Adam Pertman
Growing in the Dark
by Janine Baer
Burning of the Marriage Hat
by Margaret Benshoff-Holler
Adoption Healing: A Path to Recovery for Adoptees
by Joe Soll
A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China
by Amy Klatzkin
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son by Kay Ann Johnson and Amy Klatzkin – Amazon.com
Kids Like Me in China by Ying Ying Fry, Amy Klatzkin and Brian Boyd – Amazon.com
 


 

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