Founded in 1980, Georgia MENTOR is one of the leading national providers of home- and community-based services for individuals with mental and developmental disabilities. The organization offers a variety of services for children and youths with behavioral, emotional and medical disabilities. It provides residential and nonresidential services. The organization supports a core treatment foster care model that is based on one-to-one placement for individuals at homes of trained paraprofessionals. Georgia MENTOR offers adoption, educational, in-home, employment, small group care and supported living services. The organization provides therapeutic foster care, family preservation, reunification, wraparound and medical services. It supports juvenile offender and alternative school programs.