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Telecare Providers
Phone Reassurance Providers and Funding Sources
State Of Georgia
The following is a list of Georgia private organizations or state agencies that provide grants and funding for community programs. Also, we have listed automated and volunteer based programs that we found in the state of Georgia.
DSC provides a Telephone Reassurance phone system that automatically calls elderly households checking to ensure they are OK. DSC also provides individual calling services for home alone children. To obtain information about this program and age limits of children for your state, visit the Georgia latchkey kids age restrictions.
There are many communities that provide telephone reassurance programs (both volunteer based or automatic calling programs). These communities also refer to their programs as "Are You OK?"® and RUOK.*
Contact DSC to learn more about our automated phone systems. DSC welcomes the opportunity to discuss our telephone reassurance program and services. Also, if you are a Georgia based community and/or organization that provides a Telephone Reassurance program and would like to be listed here, please feel free to contact us.
Georgia Automated Phone Reassurance Providers
The following organizations provide Telecare programs for the elderly within their Georgia communities. These programs are both automated or volunteer based community services.
- Coweta County 911 Center - Coweta County, Georgia (770) 254-3911
- College Park Police Department - College Park, Georgia (404) 761-3131, ext. 230
- East Point Police - East Point, Georgia (404) 765-3420
- Houston County Sheriff Office - Warner Robins, Georgia (478) 542-2125
- Screven County Sheriff's Department - Sylvania, Georgia (912) 564-7727
- Smyrna Police Department - Smyrna, Georgia (770) 431-2800
- Troup County Sheriff's Office - Troup County, Georgia (706) 883-1616 ext. 208
- Vidalia Police Department - Vidalia, Georgia (912) 537-4123
Georgia Volunteer Telecare Providers
- Gainesville Community Service Center - Gainesville, Georgia (770) 503-3330
- Dougherty County Community Coalition - Albany, Georgia (229) 436-1284
- Faithful Care Atlanta Interfaith AIDS Network - Atlanta, Georgia (404) 874-8686 ext. 156
- Faith in Action S.R.T. Volunteer Program - Atlanta, Georgia (404) 344-4280
- Reaching Out to Senior Adults - Atlanta, Georgia (404) 614-0055
- Putnam Christian Outreach - Eatonton, Georgia (706) 485-8463
- Fairview Faith in Action Caregivers Associationr - Fitzgerald, Georgia (229) 426-7414
- Deliverance Outreach Caregivers - Gainesville, Georgia (770) 531-9370
- Faith in Action Companion - LaGrange, Georgia (706) 845-3555
- A Ministry of Faithworks - Saint Simons Island, Georgia (912) 466-1183
- Senior Services North Fulton - Roswell, Georgia (770) 993-1906
- Reach Out and Touch - Screven, Georgia (912) 530-8296
- Faith in Action Touching Hearts - Stone Mountain, Georgia (678) 620-0642
- Faith Lift - A Faith in Action Program - Valdosta, Georgia (229) 259-0046
- Washington Area Faith in Action - Washington, Georgia (706) 678-7000
State Of Georgia Potential Funding Resources
The following private and public groups are potential providers of funding for phone reassurance programs in Georgia communities.
To obtain current information about specific Georgia agencies and foundations that provide funding for phone reassurance commonly referred to by many community organizations as RUOK programs or Telephone Reassurance programs, please contact the respective grant provider listed below..
Note: DSC obtained the following names of foundations from public records. There is no assurance that these foundations provide funding for your specific telephone reassurance program or community notification system.
This information is provided to help you research funding for your project using community grants.
Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc.
North Georgia Community Foundation
Georgia Power Foundation, Inc.
Howell E. Adams, Jr. Charitable Trust
The Carlos and Marguerite Mason Fund
Jesse Parker Williams Foundation, Inc.
Georgia-Pacific Foundation, Inc.
The Savannah Foundation
Healthcare Georgia Foundation, Inc.
The Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc.
The Tull Charitable Foundation
The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc.
The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation, Inc.
Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia
The Peyton Anderson Foundation, Inc.
The Rich Foundation, Inc.
Community Foundation, Inc.
Katherine John Murphy Foundation
William I. H. and Lula E. Pitts Foundation
SunTrust Bank Atlanta Foundation
J. Mack Robinson Foundation
The Rockdale Foundation, Inc.
WinShape Centre, Inc.
Spray Foundation
The AFLAC Foundation, Inc.
Hudgens Family Foundation, Inc.
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc.
The James M. Cox Foundation of Georgia, Inc.
The UPS Foundation
The Delta Air Lines Foundation
The Goizueta Foundation
The David, Helen, and Marian Woodward Fund-Atlanta
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
BellSouth Foundation
J. Bulow Campbell Foundation
Community Foundation of Southwest Georgia, Inc.
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Camp Younts Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc.
Watkins Christian Foundation, Inc.
The Marcus Foundation, Inc.
Courts Foundation, Inc.
Bradley-Turner Foundation
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley
The Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc.
O. Wayne Rollins Foundation
Callaway Foundation, Inc.
Williams Family Foundation of Georgia, Inc.
East Lake Community Foundation, Inc.
ING Foundation
* "Are You OK?"® and RUOK® are registered names of Northland Innovation Corporation. The terms "RUOK" and "Telephone Reassurance" are commonly used on many community websites that offer both automated and volunteer based telephone reassurance programs.
For a comparison with our CARE system, please visit our RUOK vs CARE web page.
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