The Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP) Kinship Care Project provides civil legal services to low-income families in forty-two (42) counties in Georgia. The GLSP Kinship Care Project focuses on stabilizing the legal relationships between the relative and the dependent child and fostering the economic stability for this newly formed family. GLSP utilizes a holistic approach to address the legal and the economic needs of relative caregivers. Legal representation assists relatives thrust into the position of being caregivers to their relative children because of the parents': death, HIV/AIDS or other illness, drug or alcohol abuse, domestic violence, military deployment, and economic problems

During its first year, GLSP provided legal assistance to three hundred forty-nine (349) kinship care families to stabilize legal relationships and to secure their economic stability. Through its legal services, GLSP continues to assist families in the rural and the urban areas of Georgia. GLSP attorneys represent families in custody disputes, guardianships, adoptions, public benefits, educational matters, and consumer problems. GLSP directs litigants who are representing themselves in their attempts to stabilize their relationships with their minor children through guardianship. More than one hundred fifty (150) families benefited from information about obtaining legal guardianships on their own. By providing access to the courts through legal representation, the GLSP Kinship Care Project supports its goals to protect families during crisis and to lift families out of poverty.

Services are provided by these GLSP Offices:

Augusta Office: 1-800-248-6697 or (706) 721-2327 Counties served: Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Screven, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes

Savannah Office: 1-888-220-8399 or (912) 651-2180 Counties served: Chatham, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall, and Toombs

Piedmont Office: 1-800-822-5391 or (404) 894-7707
Counties served: Bartow, Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Floyd, Gordon, Greene, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Polk, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton

Learn More about Relative Adoption ...

• Read the Georgia Legal Services Program Kinship Care Brochure
• Read the GLSP Q&A on Kinship Care Services
• GLSP Kinship Care... Creating Stable Relationships
• Kinship Care and Access to Education

Learn More About Adoption Assistance Benefits ...

• Benefits for Kinship Care Families
• Relative Adoption Benefits Can Affect Your Eligibility for Other Benefits Programs
• $50 Supplement and Emergency Cash Grant for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Adoption Assistance Information for Special Needs Children AND Form for Requesting Benefits
• Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (English/Spanish)

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