Local Engagement

Currently, there are over 500,000 children in foster care across the United States. In Georgia, there are more than 19,000 children in state care. Due to the debilitating systemic issues facing our communities, these numbers continue to increase at an alarming rate.

In collaboration with the Georgia Division of Family and Children’s Services, Rome/Floyd County Juvenile Court, and a number of service providers and stakeholders, Global Impact has endeavored to reimagine foster care from a preventative and in-care perspective. To do this, multiple innovative and comprehensive models of engagement were needed to address the issues that fuel the foster care crisis as well as the overwhelmed system of care that serves our families currently in state care. Restoration Rome, The James House Project, and HOPE Village are three of these models. Each serves a specific purpose and works as part of a larger system designed to arrest the foster care crisis and bring healing to our communities.

Additionally, each of our local engagement models have been designed to be replicable, scalable, and independently sustainable. Global Impact is poised to assist other communities begin the journey of healing for our children and families in need through this system of care. Learn more about how you, your church, and your community can get started by clicking on any of the links below.

Restoration Rome

In 2016, the City of Rome awarded Global Impact the former Southeast Elementary School building to be repurposed as a hub for foster, adoption, and family services. This hub is called Restoration Rome and is the heart of all Global Impact’s domestic programs. Restoration Rome brings public, private, and faith-based partners together to strengthen and restore children and families in Christ’s name.

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Hope Village

Hope Village is an emerging initiative that seeks to create a “City within our City” that addresses the systemic issues (mental health, substance misuse, and poverty) that plague our community and fuel the foster crisis. The vision for Hope Village includes residential treatment, transitional recovery housing, and outpatient services delivered in a safe and supportive environment.

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James House Project

The James House Project began in 2015 and is an initiative that utilizes single-family residences to increase the number of foster homes and emergency housing in communities severely impacted by the foster care crisis. The project is designed to keep children “at home” in their communities so that the family has the opportunity to work toward reunification without the hinderances of long-distance placements.

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TBRI® Georgia

Global Impact International is proud to be a TBRI® Ambassador Organization of the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development (KPICD) at Texas Christian University and to be leading the statewide implementation of Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) as an extension of the KPICD.

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