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Mcs Atlanta
Distance: 0.3 MiCentury Pl Bldg 1900 Century Pl NE Ste 200
30345-4302 Atlanta -
Skyland Trail
Distance: 1.8 Mi1903 N Druid Hills Rd NE
30319-4119 Atlanta -
Cooperative Parenting
Distance: 2.0 Mi2801 Buford Hwy Ste T-70
30329 Atlanta -
Gup & Associates, Inc
Distance: 2.6 Mi2885 Payton Rd
30345-2600 Atlanta -
Emory Women's Mental Health Program
Distance: 3.9 Mi1365 Clifton Rd Ne Ste 6100
30322 Atlanta
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The mission of CHRIS Kids is to break the cycle of abuse by healing children, strengthening families and building community. We believe that the best place for a child to be is with their own family if this is at all possible. To help make that happen, CHRIS Kids developed a range of prevention and intervention services and a reunification program that assists children in returning to live with their families. We created a no-eject summer day camp, Camp CHRIS, to help families provide structure, safety and enrichment for their children. But some kids need more and for them we offer a community based treatment alternative a CHRIS Kids family. Over half the children who come in to our group homes have no identified family member involved in their lives so we try to locate relatives and provide mentors to ensure lasting relationships. While living in a CHRIS Kids family children receive mental health treatment designed to help them learn how to behave responsibility at home, at school, and in the community. CHRIS Kids strengthens families and offers opportunity, hope and healing to victimized children. In a CHRIS Kids family we seek to heal some of the most challenging children in Georgia's child welfare system - children and adolescents who, by virtue of a well-established entanglement in a failed placement cycle, have not been able to change their 'blueprint' of failure and disruption...