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.  

It's My Turn Now Georgia

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 (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.

Wedensday's Child Kaliyah

Weekly Feature: Kaliyah

Kaliyah, born in 2013, is an outgoing, helpful, capable, and expressive African American child who enjoys playing on the playground, jumping on a trampoline, and dancing. She also enjoys watching JoJo Siwa videos, listening to ‘Kidz Bop’ music, and playing ‘Chutes and Ladders’. At school, where she gets along well with the other kids, Kaliyah enjoys interacting with her peers. Kaliyah needs a loving adoptive family who will give her the attention, support, encouragement, structure, and nurturing environment she needs to continue to thrive. Her family will also need to support her desire to maintain her relationship with her sister with whom she is close to and who has been planned for separately.