DHR Approved Agencies/Individuals for

Child and Family Assessments

June 8,2004

 

 

This is not the official list.  The official list can be found on the DHR First Placement, Best Placement Web Page. 

 

This is a list of licensed providers who are approved to complete the State of Georgia First Placement Best Placement Comprehensive Child and Family assessment.  All providers must comply with the Minimum Standards for Child and Family Assessments - Form #65. 

 

Provisional Providers - NO LONGER LISTED

 

Provisional providers are no longer included on this list.  The provisional provider list is maintained at the state Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) Foster Care Unit.  Provisional providers are approved to do only two complete comprehensive assessments.

 

Providers on this list are approved to provide all services under the First Placement, Best Placement program including comprehensive child and family assessments, wrap around services and adolescent assessments.

 

Counties and providers may contact any agency/ individual on this list.  Counties are expected to check this list and only sign Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with providers on this list.   Providers may serve various counties in a geographical area and may service more than just the area listed. 

 

Name

Contact #

Service Area

Advantage Counseling Service

(Roy Ridley)

770 471-0033

All 159 Counties

Albany Area Community Service Board (CSB) (Judy Payne) 229 734-5200 All 159 Counties
ASHLIN Management Group, Inc. (Marion Brown) 404 223-6005 Metro Atlanta & Northwest

Associated Beneficial Counseling, Inc. (Barbara Patterson)

706 375-9891

All 159 Counties

Bagley Youth Development 

(Georgiana Bagley)

678 362-7802 All 159 Counties
Behavioral Intervention Services (David Lewis) 912 537-2434 Southeast GA

Cambridge Counseling Center

(Marian Moseley)

706 667-6767

Central GA & Augusta

Center for Creative Growth & Human Development (Jimmy D. McCamey, LCSW,  Ph.D.) 706 523-1114 West Central GA

Cherokee Center for Change, Inc.

(Ita Gilbert, LPC)

770 928-7300

Metro Atlanta

Chestatee Counseling Center

(Stacy Wolff)

706 344-8462

Northeast Georgia

Child and Family Guidance

(Elizabeth Wood)

478 451-5205

912 756-7280

Central GA

Southeast GA

Children and Teenagers Foundation (Betsy Miller) 770 469-3207 Southwest, Northeast, Metro Atlanta
C.H.O.I.C.E. Counseling Services          ( Duane Williams) 678 570-7985 Northwest & Northeast GA and metro Atlanta

CHRIS Kids

(LaJoyce Lewis, Ph.D., LCSW)

404 486-9034

Metro Atlanta

Community Connections, Inc.  

(Linda Coil)

770 465-9644 Metro Atlanta

Cornerstones Counseling Center, Inc. (Bonnie Lockwood)

706 348-8674

Northeast Georgia

Darsey  Black and Associates

(William Darsey)

912 876-4010

Liberty & Bullock

Daybreak Assessment and Family Services Inc.

(Donna Hansman)

770251-2990

All 159 Counties

Directions in Counseling

(Martin McWilliams)

229 734-4532

South-central

Diversified Consulting Services (Robert Abeyta) 706 563-8943 Metro Atlanta, Central, NW, SW, & South Central

Eastchester Family Services

(Milton Brown, MSW)

404 644-9633 Metro Atlanta & West Central GA

East Georgia Counseling Center

(Kim Stradling Hulsey, LCSW)

912 564-2201 Southeast GA

Families First

(Grady Jenkins)

404 853-3024 Metro Atlanta

Family and Children First, LLC

(Mary Wise)

706 279-4190

Northwest GA

Family Art Therapy Center

(Beth Black)

706 782-0717

Northeast GA

Family Center, The

(E.J. Holt, Ph.D.)

706 737-9557 East GA
Family Intervention Services, Inc.  (Linda G. Ezell, M.Ed.) 404 664-5040 Metro Atlanta, Southeast & Southwest GA

Family Pathways

(Robert Spaulding III)

912 568-1835 Metro Atlanta, SW and South GA

Family Support Services Inc.

(Holly Hubbard)

678 957-0991

All 159 Counties

Family Ties, Inc.

(Hugo Mullins)

770 618-3045

Metro Atlanta

Family Uplift, Inc.

(Roy Ridley)

770 471-0033 Metro Atlanta

Family Value Net-Works, Inc. (Eldridge Bodkin)

404 294-8989

Metro Atlanta

First Choice Assessments and Family Intervention Services, Inc.

(Elke Wallace)

770 465-3730

All 159 Counties

Flowering Branch Children's Shelter (C. Martin)

770 382-6180

Northwest GA

Focus Family Services

(Kimberly Bartlett)

770 472-9683 All159 Counties
Ford, Jane LMFT, MAC 912 953-1030 Central and South Central GA
Generational Family Services, Inc. (Sandra Haley, MS, NCC) 478 741-9463 Central GA
Genesis Alliance for Mental Wellness (Temeka Abbott) 770 593-9034 Metro Atlanta, NW, SE & South Central GA

Getty's Daughter, Inc.

(Felicia Bowers)

770 808-7533 Metro Atlanta

Greenbriar Children’s Shelter

(Kendall Parrerson-Trimble)

912 234-3431

Central and Southeast

GPG Consulting

 (Paula Sims)

478 960-1096 Central GA

Gwinnett Children’s Shelter

(Denise Santos)

678 546-8770

Central & North GA

Home Ministries

(Allyson Coker)

888 687-9375 Northwest & Southwest GA

Horizons Family Services

(Sharon Lord)

478 272-6060

Central GA

Infinite Possibilities Counseling Services (Christy Bearrentine, LCSW) 770 309-3137 All 159 Counties

Insight Psychiatric and Psychological Services

(Jacquie B. Green)

229 245-0330 South GA
Institute for Family Centered Services    
  • Southeast GA (Sara Shepard)
888 880-0063 Southeast GA
  • Columbus/Macon
888 743-9303 West Central Georgia

Jireh Counseling and Consulting Services, Inc.

(Felicia J. Jenkins)

404 966-2884 Metro Atlanta and Central GA

Keeping My Kids

(Kim Gruber)

770 808-0284 All 159 Counties
Love, Sam, LPC 478 275-1125 Central GA

Luten Nursing Social Services Network, Inc.

(Norma Jean Luten)

912 238-0758 Central, South-Central, and Southeast GA

Marcus Institute

(Susan Wachler, LCSW)

404 321-0393 Ext. 110 Metro Atlanta

Marvelous Light Consultants

(Dewanda Jackson)

770 339-1648

All 159 Counties

Medlin Treatment Center

(Julie Medlin)

770 507-6044

Metro and Central GA

Melton, John C., Ph.D. 229 679-5510 Southwest GA

Merz Consulting, Inc.

(DeeAna Merz)

706 822-0099 All 159 Counties

Methodist Home for Children and Youth - St. Mary's Georgia

(Charles M. Duggar)

912 882-7770

Southwest GA

Morningstar Family Resource Center

 

 

912 267-3701

Southeast GA

  • Carrollton                  (Victoria Reaves)

770 832-1603

Central GA

  • Cartersville                      (Amy Robbins, LPC)

770 607-0611

Northwest GA

  • Cumming                         (Leslie Milligan, LPC)

678 513-3023

Northeast GA

  • Rome                              (DeAnn Simon)

706 234-4355

Northwest GA

  • Savannah                           (Joe Pagila)

912 691-1262

Southeast GA

  • Zebulon                              (Rae Lynn Nettle)

770 567-0985

Central GA

Nakles, John-Michael, LMFT

912 545-9928

Southeast GA

Neighbor to Family    
  • Atlanta                        (Wayne Mclean)
404 315-0100 Fulton County
  • Augusta                           (Mary Larchevue)

706 364-9052 Richmond County
New Beginnings Counseling Center  (Laura S. Hubona) 423 870-5647 All 159 Counties

OASIS Counseling Center

 (Paige Mervis)

770 997-1738

Central GA

Open Arms Counseling Services

(Janice R. Mency, LPC)

404 346-1546 Metro Atlanta

Open Arms, Inc.

(Beth McKenzie)

229 431-1121

South Central GA

Our House

(Barry Jenkins)

706 507-1000 Southwest GA

Pathways Transition Programs, Inc. (Suaina Jain)

770 414-0835

Metro Atlanta

Phoenix Counseling Innovations  (Deidra Galloway-Couey, M.Ed., LPC) 706 232-6613 Northwest GA
Piedmont Avenue Counseling Services   (Kevin Wilbanks) 770 684-7378 West Central GA
Price Counseling Center, The      (Grace Riley Price) 770 479-5501 All 159 Counties

PRI-Family Skills Institute

(J.A. Hud, Ph.D.)

706 221-4830 All 159 Counties

Pro Family Associates, LLC

(Diane O'Brien)

706 259-4961

Northwest GA

Purvis, Gregory, LPC

706 484-2561

Central GA

Rainbow House Inc.

(Phil Kouns)

770 478-6905 Metro Atlanta

Roberts, Margie, LPC

478 452-0180

Central GA

Serenity Family Systems Inc.

(Charles Stevens)

770 218-0234

Metro Atlanta & Northwest GA

Serenity House Personal Care Hone, Inc.

(Charles Tift)

(1) 912 266-2663

(2) 912 270-5471

All 159 Counties

S-GAP, Inc.

(Vera Hargrove)

770 931-8113 Metro Atlanta

Smith, Ronal E., Ph.D.

423 886-7761

Northwest GA

Social Empowerment Center     (Vanessa Robinson-Dooley) 404 964-4966 All 159 Counties
South Georgia Counseling         (Stephen Voigt) 229 548-1389 All 159 Counties

S & T Assessment and Counseling Service

(Mollie Trammell)

770 927-3980

All 159 Counties

Thomas & Son Family and Child Resource Center, Inc.

(Nathanial Thomas)

229 294-7200

Southwest

Transitional Family Services

(Debbie Atkins)

 

 

  • Atlanta                         (Debbie Atkins)
770 916-9031 West Metro & West GA
770 916-9031 East Metro & Northeast
770 916-9031 South Metro & Central GA
770 916-9031 Augusta & East GA

Turning Point, Inc. New Directions for Families

 (Kristen Mitchell-Russo)

678 364-8986

All 159 Counties

Vashti Center

(Catherine G. Marchant)

912 226-4634

Central & South GA

Victri Counseling and Consulting Services, Inc.

(Kristia Britt)

404 299-8660

Metro Atlanta

West Georgia Counseling and Assessment Services

(Fred Farrar)

706 837-0045 All 159 Counties
Yes-U-Can                                 (Andrea Richardson) 770 921-3957 Metro Atlanta

TOTAL

88 Agencies

(98 Programs)