In order to highlight pockets of excellence across the country, the NNED selects a partner organization to highlight once a month. Family Ties Enterprises, has been selected as the Partner of the Month for August.
Family Ties Enterprise is a organization that assists families in skill and resource development necessary to safely maintain children in their home in Georgia. They strive that each family has the ability to address any situation they may face. Family Ties, Inc. was founded in 1994 to provide intensive, home-based counseling and community integration services for families and children.
Some of the programs and services that are currently offered:
- Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) Services – Family Ties is a Licensed Provider approved to provide all services under the Comprehensive Child and Family Assessment (CCFA) program, including family assessments, wrap around services and adolescent assessments. Family Ties, Inc. assists families in the skill and resource development necessary to safely maintain children in their home.
- Medicaid Funded Mental Health Services (CORE) – Family Ties is a Child and Adolescent Medicaid approved Core Provider and a State Fee For Service approved Provider ( which allows uninsured children up to the age of 21 if the child is still in school) access to free in-home mental health services. Family Ties accepts PeachState, WellCare, and Medicaid . They Provide in-home services in the following counties: Cherokee, Cobb, Dekalb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, and Rockdale.
- TeleMental Health – Giving people the opportunity to speak to a clinical team through the use of an online device, ensuring that families has access to services and needs at all times.
- School Based Program Services – For School based services, most referrals are made by the counselor or social worker at one of out partner schools. Families who students attend one of our partner schools can make a referral via our online referral or by downloading and emailing the referral to SBP@familytiesinc.com.
Learn more about Family Ties Enterprises and their belief that with proper support, education and encouragement, families can establish goals and a value base that will guide them in their development; and that values dictate actions and only through a change of values can true behavioral change take place.
View a list of previous NNED Partners of the Month.