9 offices.
One mission.
We’re the largest nonprofit foster care agency in Georgia — built around a simple idea: foster families do better when a local community stands with them.
A Christian nonprofit foster care and child placing agency, licensed by the State of Georgia.
Families 4 Families is a Christian nonprofit child placing agency, licensed by the State of Georgia to recruit, train, and support foster families across the state.
We operate nine offices with a tenth office coming soon. We strive to serve every part of Georgia.
Our model is built on local church partnerships. We work with Christian congregations across Georgia to recruit foster families from their members, support those families after placement, and surround every family with a community that knows them.
Connecting local churches with faith-based families to offer hope and restoration to children and families involved in Georgia’s foster care system.
That every child would be in a loving family connected to the local church.
Why foster through a private agency.
Foster families have a choice between fostering directly through county DFCS or through a private agency like F4F. The state's role is the same in both — what changes is the kind of support a family gets day-to-day.
Smaller caseloads.
Our case managers carry fewer families than county caseworkers, which means more personal contact, faster response, and deeper relationships.
Date Nights and ongoing support.
Each region runs Date Nights where we host foster families' biological, adopted, and foster children at a partner church so the parents can have a few hours. Support groups and ongoing training run alongside.
Support in every region.
Because we operate across all nine regions, a family always has an F4F team and partner churches nearby — local people who show up in person, not a distant central office.
Practical help.
Birthday bags, Christmas presents, diapers, wipes, car seats — the practical resources F4F provides so foster families are never scrambling when a placement arrives.
We walk with families through every step — licensing, placement, court dates, school issues, the day-to-day work — so they can focus on what matters most: loving and caring for the child in their home.
A specific theory of foster care — and the numbers to test it.
Wayne founded F4F with a specific theory of foster care: that a child placing agency working in genuine partnership with the local church could change the outcomes children and families experience inside the system. The numbers we measure ourselves by are how we know the theory is right.
Most agencies count children served. We count three other things.
The number of children served matters — but it's not the number that tells us we're doing this work well. These three are.
Foster families still fostering after their first year
Foster families don't last on willpower. The number tells us our families have the support structure they need to keep going — community, training, regional staff, and a church family that knows them.
A regional team and church family for every household
Our church-based model means every foster family is backed by people nearby — a regional office, partner congregations, and other foster families within reach. We track engagement in every region because families supported by a local community are the ones who last, and lasting families are what make reunification possible.
Largest nonprofit child-placing agency in Georgia
Scale matters because foster care is statewide. Children come into care in every county; foster families need to be recruited and supported in every region. Nine offices, one organizational backbone.
Foster care, at its best, is temporary.
Most children who enter the system will go home. The way we do the work is built around that fact.
Foster care is, at its best, temporary. Most children who enter the system will go home. Reunification with a child’s birth family — when it can be done safely — is almost always the right outcome.
The hardest part of foster care isn’t recruiting families willing to take a child in. It’s keeping those families fostering for more than one placement, and helping them love a child fully while rooting for that child’s birth parents to get healthy enough to bring them home.
Our job is to walk with families through that hard middle.
We built F4F around the conviction that those things are easier when foster families aren’t isolated. A foster family that has a church family — people who pray for them, bring them meals, watch their kids when the system gets exhausting — stays fostering. And a foster family rooted in its own community has more to draw on through the hard middle: people who show up, relationships that steady them, and the kind of local support that helps a family stay the course until reunification is possible.
Nine offices. Local church partnerships across the state. That’s the model. The outcomes tell us it works.
A Christian agency. And what that means in practice.
Our model only works because our foster families, our partner churches, and our staff share the same foundation about why we do this work.
The families we license are active in their faith and eager to serve. Specifically, we ask every foster family to affirm four foundations:
- Active in a local church. We believe the local church is the best support structure for a foster family, and our model is built around that conviction.
- Smoke-free home. A non-negotiable safety standard for every child placed in our care.
- Statement of Faith. F4F follows the National Association of Evangelicals’ Statement of Faith — a short, historically grounded statement of Christian conviction.
- Position on Morality. A short statement on how F4F approaches family, marriage, and ethical conduct, anchored in our Christian foundation.
You can read the full Statement of Faith and Position on Morality on our statement of faith page.
If you’re a Christian family active in a local church and these foundations resonate with you, we’d love to talk. If they don’t, F4F may not be the best match — but we’re grateful for your heart to help Georgia’s children, and we’d point you toward agencies whose models welcome a broader set of families.
A calling, and a phone call.
On May 6, 2012, Wayne and Kelli Naugle received their first foster placement.
F4F began with a calling and a phone call. On May 6, 2012, Wayne and Kelli Naugle received their first foster placement: a newborn girl abandoned behind a dumpster. A year later, they received another call for her newborn half-sister.
Both girls would later become Abbie and Ashlie Naugle through adoption.
That experience opened the Naugles’ eyes to the depth of need in Georgia’s foster care system — and to the difference a supportive, Christ-centered community can make for families saying yes to that work. In 2017, they left their careers and launched Families 4 Families to help more families do the same.
Backgrounds in social work, church ministry, nonprofit operations, and direct foster care. The combination is intentional.
Running a statewide foster care organization requires people who understand the regulatory framework, the spiritual stakes, and the operational reality of running nine offices.
F4F is led by a committed leadership team across foster care operations, recruitment, compliance, finance, and growth. The full team — leadership plus regional Area Directors, home study staff, and case managers — is on our team page.
Meet the full team → 5.0 / 5.0 — and we don’t curate.
Verified Google Reviews. The ones below are recent; there are over 300 more.
“This is a great organization. They genuinely care about Georgia's foster children and the foster families they support.”
“We have been fostering through F4F for about 8 years now. The support they provide is unmatched.”
“Families4Families is an amazing foster care agency. From the first contact we had when we expressed interest to our day-to-day needs — F4F shows up.”
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Across all nine regions of Georgia.
Regional offices serving every part of the state — click any region for its office page.
