
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.

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 (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.

Weekly Feature: Aaden
Future UGA student Aaden, born in 2010, is a self-described funny, nice, and helpful Caucasian child who enjoys spending time with others, having a good laugh, playing outside, and playing video games, ‘Monopoly’, ‘Connect 4’, and football. He also enjoys listening to rap music and beatboxing and watching ‘The Smurfs’, ‘Jessie’, superhero movies like ‘Spider-Man’, and football, baseball, and basketball games. His favorite teams are the Falcons, Braves, and Lakers. At school, Aaden enjoys all his subjects, but likes recess and lunch the most. Aaden needs a loving adoptive family who will give him the attention, support, encouragement, structure, and nurturing environment he needs to continue to thrive. His family will also need to support his desire to maintain his relationship with his brother who has been planned for separately.