Welcome to the State of Georgia’s
Custody Switching Services
Brought to you by the Georgia Office
of Child Support Enforcement
Georgia Child Support Enforcement,
Child Access and Visitation Services, Child Support Enforcement has contracts with
two service providers to provide child access and visitation services within
the State of
Call1-888-4FATHER
Fatherhood - The Other
Part of Welfare Reform
Georgia
Fatherhood Newsletter, Father Secures Better Job and Full Custody of his Son,
Custody Switching at its Best, While
enrolling for classes at Savannah Tech, Luqman heard
about the Fatherhood Program and requested enrollment. What is especially
noteworthy was that Luqman was concurrently enrolled
in a diploma program and the Fatherhood Program while working full-time as a
shoe salesman. He completed the Welding and Joining program this year and was
accepted into the Ultimate Diver Training Program (for underwater welding) at
the Ocean Corporation in
Fatherhood Works for Mothers Too, [well not exactly, unlike Luqman,
she does not have full custody of her child] Electrical Construction and Maintenance is
normally not a traditional training program for females, but Kim completed the
program at Chattahoochee Tech and acquired employment in that area. Kim
came to the Fatherhood Program with a bad taste about the child support system.
She had lost her job and been arrested for non-payment of child support all
while trying to recover from a major accident. Since entering the program, she
has been working and attending school full-time. Her relationship with her
child continues to be a rewarding and important part of her life. The purpose of the Network
Newsis to
provide interesting and important information concerning the Georgia Fatherhood
Services Network to Child Support employees and our network partners.
U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today joined colleagues Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) in co-sponsoring S. 1364, the "Responsible Fatherhood Act." “We must turn our attention from poor mothers to absent fathers, the men who conceived these children
Georgia Fatherhood Program, lots of good links on FR fund subversion, including a link to Wade Horn’s National Fatherhood Initiative.
TANF
Services, signed by former Governor
Zell Miller, states that Georgia will operate a
program to provide TANF so that children may be cared for in their own homes or
in the homes of relatives; dependence of needy parents on government benefits
ends by promoting job preparation, work; incidence of out-of-wedlock
pregnancies is prevented and reduced and annual numerical goals to prevent and
reduce the incidence of these pregnancies are established; and the formation
and maintenance of two-parent families are encouraged.
Georgia Fatherhood
Program/Welfare Info The Georgia Fatherhood Program is an effort by
the Georgia Office of Child Support Enforcement, to enable non-custodial low income
parents to pay child support and play an active role in the lives of their
children. Another goal of the program is to reduce
Child Access and Visitation services include:
Case intake and assessment -
interviewing noncustodial parents to determine the
problems and barriers to visitation, and setting a plan of action to intervene.
Co-parenting education -
instructing both parents on the importance of placing the children's needs over
personal differences.
Counseling or individual education -
addressing individual problems which are specific barriers to visitation.
Mediations and the development of parenting plans
- scheduling visits and exchanges of the child(ren) from one parent to another. Mediating
child-raising issues.
Supervised and monitored visitation -
supervised visitation is observation by a trained professional. Telephone
monitoring increases the success rate of visits and deals with problems.
Neutral drop off/pick up sites for child visitation - places
where parents can bring the child to deliver to the other parent. These can be
set up so that there is no interaction between the parents.
Legal services are not included as part of these services. Noncustodial parents who need legal services for legitimation, establishment of visitation orders, or
enforcement of visitation orders will need to obtain this help from other
resources. For those who want to consider filing an action in court on their
own, one resource is the website of the Fulton County Superior Court Family
Division's
This
website has legal forms and instructions, which include forms for legitimation and visitation. Any resident of the state of
To
find out more about the Child Access and Visitation Services, contact the
service provider in your area, or call:
1-888-4FATHER
Child
Access and Visitation
Service Providers are listed below:
To be eligible to receive child access and visitation
services, you must have a child support case number. This means you must have a
case with Child Support Enforcement or MAXIMUS Child Support Services. [Maximus excludes custodial
parent who have received welfare.]
The custodial parent and child(ren) must live in
Families First, P.O. Box 7948, Station C, Atlanta, Ga.
30357-0948 - This contract will serve 797 cases and will attempt
to provide services in Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12 of the Office of
Child Support Enforcement. Call 1-877-546-3058 toll free or (404) 756-2110. FAX
(404) 853-2844 for the first available appointment.
Middle Ga. Community Action Agency, Inc.,
For
more information, contact your local Child Support Enforcement Office, one of
the service providers, or:
Russell Eastman, Program Consultant
Child Access and Visitation Services
Child Support Enforcement
Phone (404) 463-6861, FAX (404) 657-1134
http://www.cse.dhr.state.ga.us/
Georgians
For Children -- 2002 Children's Agenda Ballot This Survey Ends on September 14, 2001.
Increase funding for programs designed to support fatherhood including
expanding the Fatherhood Initiative statewide.
Assist families transitioning from welfare to work into the job market upon
leaving the TANF rolls including job skills training, transportation,
childcare, etc.
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Families First
Child Access and Visitation Program is designed to assist non-custodial
parents with improving access and visitation with their children. This program
is funded by the Department of Human Resources Office of Child Support
Enforcement.
Parenting Seminars, designed to teach
non-custodial parents about the process of obtaining visitation rights in
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