Adoption

The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) and Fox 5 Atlanta partner to sponsor Wednesday’s Child, an award-winning program and a national campaign with a proven track record of success aimed at increasing the number of adoptions of children in foster care.  Featured children are usually past the age of eight (8), sibling groups and/or children with special needs who have been in the foster care system for some time and would love to be adopted into a forever family.  

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Meet the Children

Georgia’s Adoption Photolisting website, It’s My Turn Now Georgia, features children who are looking for caring forever families to help make their dreams come true. To learn more about children who are available for adoption in the State of Georgia, click here.

To speak with someone about becoming a foster or adoptive parent
Contact the foster care and adoption recruitment intake line at 1-877-210-KIDS (5437) or click here to complete Foster Georgia’s Inquiry Form

Wednesday's Child, Georgia Department of Human Services' Division of Family & Children Services

Wednesday's Child (WC) is Georgia's partnership with WAGA Fox 5 TV - Atlanta and the Georgia Division of Family &

Children Services Permanency Unit. An award-winning program with a proven track record of success, is a national campaign to increase the number of adoptions of children in foster care. The children featured on Wednesday’s Child are those in the most urgent need of a home. Many of these children are over the age of eight and have been in the foster care system for some time and desperately need a permanent place to call home.

Wednesday's Child Cameren

Weekly Feature: Cameren

Cameren, born in 2009, is a pleasant, calm, and respectful African American teenage boy. Cameren enjoys school where he gets along well with others. He likes meeting new people and is a curious youth interested in weather forecasting or becoming a news anchor. Cameren likes all kinds of music, and watching comedy, action, or sports on television. He follows Atlanta sports teams, and particularly enjoys watching basketball. In Cameren’s spare time, he likes to play baseball, or games on his tablet or play station. Cameren needs a welcoming and warm adoptive family enthusiastic about parenting a busy teenage boy who needs guidance, support, and love. He also needs a family that will support him in having ongoing relationships with his siblings placed separately.