Hours expanded for child abuse hotline housed at Georgia State

State funding given to Prevent Child Abuse Georgia will allow the state’s 1-800-CHILDREN Helpline to expand its hours.

The $82,500 awarded by Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services is a one-year pilot contract to support the DFCS call center. The helpline provides citizens with resources on positive parenting, and referral services to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Financial support from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation allowed PCA Georgia to restart the hotline in February 2014. The hotline had shut down in 2011. The new state funding increases the Helpline’s service hours to 8 a.m.-7 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.