The Atlanta Child’s Home opened in 1907 when Mrs. Frank Robinson began taking orphaned and neglected children into her own home. The organization was officially incorporated in 1915. The orphanage operated on Angier Avenue until 1923 when the Hightower Estate, thirty four acres in west Atlanta, was purchased. Mrs. Robinson served as director of the orphanage until her death in 1945. At that time a board of trustees was elected to oversee the operation of the home

The Child Welfare Association, Inc. was organized in 1930 as an agency to generate cooperation between the many orphanages and child welfare organizations in Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb Counties. The Association worked with groups such as: the Atlanta Child’s Home, the Carrie Steele Pitts Home for Negro Children, and the Florence Crittendon Home. In 1951 the agency reorganized and was renamed the Child Service Association, Inc. The agency expanded its services to include Cobb County in 1959, and Clayton and Gwinnett Counties in 1962.

In 1964, the Atlanta Child’s Home merged with the Child Service Association to become the Children’s Center of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc. The merger was another attempt to expand the reach of the many agencies and improve services to needy children in the Metro-Atlanta area.