Get paid to care for your own child.
If your child is approved for Georgia's GAPP program, the Family Caregiver Option can let you — their parent, grandparent, or close relative — be hired and paid by HeartPath as their Personal Support Services caregiver. You already do the work. This is how you get paid for it.
- Training provided by our Director of Nursing
- A nurse supervisor supporting you
- Care stays at home, with family
How it works
Georgia requires every paid caregiver to be trained, screened, and supervised — including family. We walk you through all of it.
- 1
Tell us about your family
A two-minute application. We only need enough to check whether the Family Caregiver Option is open to you.
- 2
We confirm GAPP approval
Your child must be approved for GAPP with Personal Support Services hours authorized on their plan. We check this with you directly.
- 3
Training and clearances
You complete 40 hours of caregiver training with our Director of Nursing, plus a background check with fingerprinting, CPR and First Aid, and health screening.
- 4
You start paid shifts
Once everything is cleared and signed off, you're a HeartPath employee caring for your own child — on weekly payroll.
What's required
These are set by Georgia Medicaid and the Department of Community Health, not by us. Nothing here can be skipped or waived.
- Your child is approved for Georgia's GAPP program with Personal Support Services hours on their plan
- You are the child's parent, grandparent, adult sibling, aunt or uncle, or legal guardian
- You are 18 or older and legally authorized to work in the United States
- You clear a Georgia GCIC check, national fingerprint-based background check, and abuse and exclusion registry checks
- You complete 40 hours of training and hold current CPR and First Aid certification
- You have a documented TB screening and a clean drug screen on file