Know a resource? Add your square.
The directory is community-built: foster parents, caseworkers, and neighbors tell us what actually works in their county, and we verify it before it goes live. This page covers how to suggest a new listing — and how to flag one that's broken or changed.
Suggest a new listing.
Not everything belongs in the directory — and that's the point. A short, verified list beats a long, hopeful one.
What makes a listing good
- Georgia-specific. Serves a Georgia county, region, or the whole state — not a national referral page.
- Currently operating. You or someone you know used it recently, or the org confirmed it's active.
- Clear about who it serves. Foster, kinship, adoptive, aged-out youth — and any eligibility limits.
- Honest about cost. Free, sliding scale, or paid — stated up front.
- A phone that gets answered. Or an email that gets a reply. A dead contact helps no one at 8pm on a Friday.
What we do with your submission
Every suggestion goes through the same vetting before it's published: we check the org against official sources (state agency pages, the org's own current site), confirm the phone number and service area, and attach a verified date. If we can't confirm something, we say so on the page instead of guessing — a listing is never published on a submission alone.
Read the full vetting method →Gather this before you submit
Five things. If you only have three, send it anyway — we can chase the rest.
- Organization nameThe official one, plus the name locals actually use if it's different.
- County or coverage areaOne county, a region, or statewide. "Metro Atlanta" is fine — we'll pin it down.
- Contact that worksPhone and/or website. Bonus points if you've called it recently and a human answered.
- What it providesClothing, respite, mentoring, legal help, car seats — in plain words, plus cost.
- Who's eligibleFoster only? Kinship too? Age limits, custody requirements, or referral needed?
Submission channel: coming soon.
There's no form or published email yet — this site is static and we won't post a channel until someone is committed to answering it. Keep your notes; the checklist above is exactly what the form will ask for. In the meantime, the about page explains how vetting works so you know what happens on our end.
Report a broken or changed listing.
Every listing on this site shows when a human last verified it. When you tell us a number stopped routing or a program quietly ended, you're doing that verification — and the next family in line doesn't hit a dead end.
What to include
- Which listing. The page or org name — a link to the Foster411 page is perfect.
- What changed. Wrong number, new address, program ended, different eligibility, new hours.
- How you know. "I called Tuesday and the line was disconnected" is gold. A link to the org's announcement works too.
What happens next
We re-check the listing against official sources, fix what changed, and update its verified date. If the fix can't be confirmed yet, the listing gets a visible Re-verification due badge rather than staying silently wrong — stale states are shown, never hidden.
Report channel: coming soon.
Same honest gap as above — no published email or form yet. Note the listing, what changed, and how you know, and it'll take thirty seconds to send once the channel opens. If the broken listing involves an urgent need, the resource directory and urgent help numbers can route you around it today.
Want to see how the sausage is verified?
The vetting method is public: what counts as an official source, how often listings are re-checked, and why every fact on this site wears a date.