Athens Area Child Abuse Prevention Council
"First Steps Program"

 

Address:
1551 Jennings Mill Rd.  Suite 700-A, Bogart, GA 30622

 

Phone Number:
706-546-9713 or 706-548-3216

 

Email: 
garthur@aacapc.org

 

Web Link:

www.aacapc.org

 

Volunteer coordinator contact person: 

Grace Arthur / Mary Hood

 

Description of responsibilities and activities for volunteers:

 

Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age.  First Steps is a primary prevention program that is mostly driven by the volunteers that devote their time to the program.  Volunteers visit new parents who deliver at Athens Regional Medical Center and live in Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe and Oconee Counties.  They provide families with a “welcome packet” containing information on topics such as SIDS, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Postpartum depression, community resources and child development.  Volunteers also provide friendly phone follow-up to the families that they see, for the first three months of baby’s life.

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