It is all too easy for a parent to become isolated and overwhelmed by the constant time and financial requirements of his or her child with medical or developmental disabilitites. Evidence of this problem can be seen in child poverty rates. In 2006, for example, the US Census Bureau reported that in Georgia 49% to 59% of children with physical disabilities experienced lived in poverty. This compares to the State’s overall child poverty rate of 19% to 22%. 

Our job at Childkind is to insure that parents are connected to needed community and neighborhood resources and are fully equipped to provide their children a safe, stable, and loving home. 

After several months with our Transition Support Services program, one mother wrote a letter thanking Childkind for helping her. She wrote,

"I want you to know how grateful I am . . . as a parent who was so caught off guard with a sudden injury of my child, my only child. I was so not together when I met with someone from Childkind. I did not know how I was going to get through this, all alone here in Atlanta with no family and no one to turn to for help. Then there were these people from Childkind who took me by the hand and assured me that it will be ok, that they would do what was necessary to get me the help and resources I need to get through this hard time in my life . . . So the team got together and came up with a game plan and got me the resources I needed."

We are here to help parents become successful caregivers for their children with medical or developmental disabilities.
 

For more information, contact:

Jen DeVita
Director, Transition Support Services
(404) 248-1980, extension 243
jdevita@childkind.org

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