Extreme stress, family violence, drug and alcohol use, child abuse, accusations, defenses, mental and emotional illnesses, separation, divorce, and custody battles can run through families with the force of tornados, leaving everyone shaken and relationships damaged in their wake.
Even in the midst of crisis, children still love and need both parents.
They need to be sheltered from conflict between parents and to be protected when safety is uncertain for any reason.
When you walk through our doors or we walk through yours, you will find a supportive environment with people who are committed to safeguarding children and enabling them to spend safe positive time with their visiting parents.
Even in the midst of crisis, children still love and need both parents.
They need to be sheltered from conflict between parents and to be protected when safety is uncertain for any reason.
When you walk through our doors or we walk through yours, you will find a supportive environment with people who are committed to safeguarding children and enabling them to spend safe positive time with their visiting parents.
Joyce Saye, is an adoptive parent and grandparent, now raising her preteen granddaughter.
For ten years she directed a statewide mental health advocacy program. Before that, she worked for Family
and Children Services for over twenty years in many capacities including caseworker, supervisor,
research and demonstration director, state director of training and of program management. She holds an
MS from Georgia State and has experience in child protective services, adoptions, and other social
services. She has been supervising visitation for fifteen year with A-Plus S ervices in Atlanta and for four years with Family Visits in counties outside Atlanta. She has been a field instructor for Atlanta University School of Social Work, adjunct faculty at Southern Polytechnic Institute, and on staff at the Center for Research in Social Change at Emory University.
Eugene Walden, III is a Vietnam Era veteran who was a radar operator in the U.S. Air Force. Following his honorable discharge, he majored in Political Science at Mercer University in his hometown of Macon. Eugene gained ten years of practical experience with children and adults as Director of Community Services with a CAP Agency, and as a child protective services worker with Departments of Family and Children Services. While earning his M.S.W. from the University of Georgia, Eugene worked with Vietnam combat veterans in Atlanta, Later he worked as a clinical social worker with developmentally challenged people and as a mental health advocate. Eugene is the father of five children.
