Georgia Family Caregiver Option

Caring for your child is already your full-time job.

Georgia's GAPP program may pay you to do it. This 2-minute check tells you if the Family Caregiver Option could fit your family, first a few questions about your child, then a few about you.

What you'll get: a straight answer on whether you may qualify to be a paid, W-2 caregiver, and if so, we'll start your application right here. Nothing is submitted until the end.

Part 1 · Your child

First, about your child

GAPP is for medically fragile children, this tells us if your child is in range.

How old is your child?

Approval for the paid caregiver option depends on age, care needs and the approved plan of care, and it is less common for very young children. In-home skilled nursing has no such pattern.

Does your child have Georgia Medicaid?

Katie Beckett is a Medicaid pathway that ignores your income, so "working on it" still counts.

Which best describes your child's care needs?

Pick the closest one.

Part 2 · You

Now, about you as the caregiver

Being paid through GAPP means becoming an employee of the agency. A few quick yes/no questions.

What is your relationship to the child?

The Family Caregiver Option has rules about who can be hired, so this decides whether the rest applies.

Are you open to becoming a W-2 employee of the agency?

Paid caregivers are hired as employees, taxes withheld, real pay stubs.

Can you complete the required training (about 40 hours)?

We guide you through it, it's how you're prepared and credentialed to be paid.

Are you able to pass a background check?

You may qualify

Good news, the Family Caregiver Option may be a fit.

Based on your answers, you could be paid to care for your child. Let's start your application, a coordinator will call to walk you through the next steps.

This is an application to be considered for the GAPP Family Caregiver Option. It is not an eligibility determination, GAPP approval and caregiver hiring are confirmed by HeartPath and Georgia Medicaid. Your answers are self-reported and verified during intake.

Your application has started.

A HeartPath coordinator will call you shortly to walk through the next steps, the training, the paperwork, and getting you paid for the care you already give.

Questions right now? Call 678-459-2590.

Let's find your child's path first.

Our free 3-minute Path Finder maps exactly which Georgia programs your child may qualify for, Medicaid, Katie Beckett, SSI, and GAPP, and what to do next. Once your child qualifies, the Family Caregiver Option opens up.

Take the 3-minute Path Finder →

Prefer to talk it through? Call 678-459-2590.

We’re not the right fit today, but here’s help.

HeartPath’s paid caregiver option runs through GAPP, which is for children who need in-home skilled nursing: tracheostomy, ventilator, feeding tube, oxygen, or daily nursing care. Based on your answers, that isn’t what your child needs right now. But Georgia has real support for your family, and we’re building toward waiver-based services.

Where to start instead

Georgia’s early intervention program (Babies Can’t Wait, birth to three) and Parent to Parent of Georgia, a free navigator service, are the right first calls. Katie Beckett can open Medicaid regardless of your income.

Parent to Parent of Georgia →

Questions? Call 678-459-2590.

Let's talk it through.

The paid-caregiver route has a few firm requirements, and one of your answers means it's worth a real conversation before you apply. There may be another way we can help your family.

Call a HeartPath coordinator, no pressure, just answers.

Call 678-459-2590