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👀 Link 🔗 in bio (and comments) to register for the 2026 sCAREcrows for Kids! Show off your business and your creativity with your own sCAREcrow on display at The Mill on Etowah for the month of October. All proceeds support The Children’s Haven! 🎃

Our team is stretched and ready for sCAREcrow season! Get your sCAREcrow on display and let’s make this year’s sCAREcrows for Kids an unforgettable experience. 🎃 Grab your spot today! 🔗 Registration link in bio

All smiles on a really, really good day. 💚 Thank you @nationalautobodycouncil Recycled Rides, @travelersinsurance , and @wrenscg for making a dream come true for an amazing mom! Reliable transportation can be life changing for a family. This is what the power of community looks like. We can’t stop smiling! #buildinghappyhealthychildren #recycledrides #recycledrides®

Our team enjoyed learning and collaborating with partners from across the state at The Georgia Conference on Child Abuse Prevention. Together, we’re building happy, healthy children! @pcageorgia @childrensatl @gacfca

We are celebrating! ♥️ Congratulations to the Scott family on Mariana, Iggy, and Reina’s adoption day! For 61 months, the children’s CASA volunteer Katie Huff has been by their sides. Her dedication and advocacy for their best interests has contributed to this new beginning! If you would like to learn more about serving in this role to help change a child’s story, please reach out to CASA Cherokee @thechildrenshaven. #casa #courtappointedspecialadvocates #buildinghappyhealthychildren @georgiacasa

Happy 8-Year Work Anniversary to Marcie Smith, our Executive Director! 💙 For eight years, Marcie has led The Children’s Haven with a combination of grace, compassion, courage, and fierce determination. Her love for the children and families we serve, our community, and this organization is evident in all she does. Marcie never stops working for what is best for the children and families who depend on The Children’s Haven. She leads with heart, stands strong when challenges arise, and brings an unwavering commitment to making our community a better place. Her dedication to our mission is impossible to miss. Marcie cares deeply for her team and celebrates their strengths, supports them through challenges, and leads with genuine care and appreciation. Happy 8 years, Marcie! We are so grateful for you and all you do! 💚

This morning we are so glad to congratulate another graduating class of Court Appointed Special Advocates! These specially trained CASA volunteers will build relationships with and advocate in court for Cherokee County children experiencing foster care. ♥️💙 Big thanks to Judge Richard Jones and Judge Amanda Speights for swearing in this round of difference-makers last night! And here’s a hearty shout out to @pops.canton for providing a celebratory dinner including pasta, salad, and garlic bread for our volunteers! 🍝 If you are interested in learning more about serving as a CASA, our next training begins Oct. 20! Reach out at CherokeeChildrensHaven.org. We are happy to answer any questions! #buildinghappyhealthychildren @georgiacasa

Join us in celebrating with the King family, honoring spunky Beckett's recent adoption after experiencing foster care since infancy! We have so much joy for Beckett and his entire family. Thank you to CASA volunteer Tami Smith for her dedication to and advocacy for Beckett's best interests throughout the process. We are so grateful for you! Message us to learn more about serving as a Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer here in Cherokee County. Training classes are offered this fall and in early 2027.

One phone call can change a life. 💚 Earlier this summer, Wren’s Collision Center of Canton made that phone call to The Children’s Haven. They were part of a national program that gives refurbished cars away to single parents in need and they wanted to partner with The Children’s Haven to give a car to a local mom. Through the @nationalautobodycouncil Recycled Rides program, generosity from @travelersinsurance and repair work donated by @wrenscg in Canton, a dream for reliable transportation came true! Katrina Watkins is a graduate of our Positive Childhood Alliance (PCA) Cherokee program where she completed six months of parenting education, gained connections to community resources, and received support to get through a hard season. We’re so proud of her. We’re so proud of how hard she works to care for her two children and her younger sister. She’s relied on Uber, Lift, and friends to get her to and from work everyday for three years. This beautiful 2023 @honda HRV Sport will be such an incredible gift for her family now! @enterprise presented Katrina with a $500 gift card to Amazon to help fill more wish lists for her family! She was also gifted $200 for gas. Other surprises like a dash camera to see her kids in the backseat, new car seats, car care items, and gifts for the kids were kindly tucked away in the trunk. This community came together in a really powerful way and that’s something big to celebrate! Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating Katrina yesterday. It was truly so special. 💚 #buildinghappyhealthychildren #recycledrides® #recycledrides

Such a fun morning with Minis at The Mill! Thank you to all the kids who voted for their favorite sCAREcrow to win the Kids’ Choice Award during our sCAREcrows for Kids event! @localchurchcanton @themillonetowah

We enjoyed participating in @cherokeechamberga ‘s Schmooza Palooza at @woodstockcitychurch Thank you to everyone who stopped by to learn more about our mission!

💜 October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and The Children’s Haven was grateful to be part of this year’s Domestic Violence Vigil. Our team enjoyed connecting with guests, sharing information about our organization, and being part of an evening dedicated to bringing awareness to domestic violence and supporting those impacted by it. 💜

Our team loves to celebrate and we were thrilled to surprise our Events and Marketing Coordinator, Jamorad Keith, with a baby shower! We can’t wait to meet sweet baby Kaymen! 💙 So excited for your family, Jamorad!

Join us in congratulating these amazing moms who just graduated from our parenting group class with Positive Childhood Alliance (PCA) Cherokee! 💙 Thank you to our friends at @serenadeheights for allowing us the opportunity to offer this class to the moms in their program. When we collaborate in service to families, the impact can be even greater! We’re so proud of each of these program participants! 🎉 @pcageorgia @pcaamerica #buildinghappyhealthychildren

It’s time to announce the winners of this year’s sCAREcrows for Kids! A big thank you to every sCAREcrow and to each of you who donated to support this year’s sCAREcrows for Kids and the mission of The Children’s Haven. Now for the winners…🏆 1st Place: Zack Boho Real Estate/ERA Sunrise Realty @zackboborealestate 2nd Place: The Rotary Club of Canton @cantongarotary 3rd: BEATS Inc. @beatsincga For our Kids’ Choice Awards.. * Speedy Productions @speedyproductionsatl * Red Oak Sanitation & Recycling @redoak.sanitation Help us congratulate all of the winners!!

Executive Director Marcie Smith was just recently inducted into the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute Class of 2026! RLI is an immersive experience with hands-on opportunities to connect active learning to real-world planning and policy throughout the region. Unified regional work around housing affordability, transportation, resources, community resilience, workforce development, and investments in the region’s future all ultimately impact child welfare. 💚 Marcie was honored to represent Cherokee County in this year’s cohort. Marcie is pictured with ARC COO Mike Alexander and the Keynote speaker for the Induction Ceremony, Mayor Michael Caldwell.

Thankful Thursday! We are so grateful for our friends at LDI Reproprinting Center in Canton. Their donation of diapers will be such a blessing to our families shopping in our Caregivers’ Closet. Thank you, Generations Church, for inviting The Children’s Haven to be a part of Missions Sunday. We are so grateful for your partnership and continued support! @mygchurch

CASA Cherokee’s Advocacy Director Julie Carter is Best Version Media’s July Hometown Hero! For the last decade, Julie has been an integral part of The Children’s Haven’s far-reaching impact on children and their families. Her leadership of the dedicated CASA Cherokee team and the program’s highly trained volunteers ensures better outcomes for youth experiencing foster care right here in Cherokee County. To read more, pick up a copy of a local Best Version Media publication (like Bradshaw Lake Living or BridgeMill Neighbors) around town!

📢The theme is…..MASQUERADE AT THE MILL! 📢 The Children’s Haven’s Annual Adult Prom is bringing all the New Orleans flair to the @themillonetowah in 2027! Make plans now to join us under the Big Tent with @atlantaseventspecialists for a night of fun and celebration to raise awareness and support for The Children’s Haven! Email Michelle@CherokeeChildrensHaven.org to learn about sponsorship opportunities. We can’t wait!

Bingo with Bobo was so much fun! Thank you to the @zackboborealestate team for hosting this fun event at @themillonetowah to raise awareness and funds for The Children’s Haven’s sCAREcrows for Kids event! Congrats to all the lucky winners!

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Bingo with Bobo was so much fun!