The mission of the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) is to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity sustained due to severe illness or trauma. It aims to ensure state of the art emergency medical care for the ill and injured child or adolescent; to ensure that pediatric service is well integrated into an emergency medical service system backed by optimal resources; and to ensure that entire spectrum of emergency services, including primary prevention of illness and injury, acute care, and rehabilitation, is provided to children and adolescents as well as adults.

Georgia's EMSC program is supported by the federal EMSC program and works in collaboration with the Office of EMS/Trauma, Bioterrorism, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and other state and federal programs to increase the resources available.

EMSC has been federally funded in Georgia since 1994 and under the leadership of now Deputy Director, Ej Dailey, has developed many programs, distributed equipment and disseminated pediatric education in the state quite successfully.

With the beginning of a new grant cycle (March 2003), EMSC will refocus on achieving the yet unrealized goal of documenting, reporting, collecting, analyzing, and utilizing valid data from the EMS systems. This will allow accurate research to validate and substantiate existing programs, as well as steer new program development.