Kinship Care
Kinship Care/Family-Based Services is the full-time nurturing and protection of children who must be separated from their parent(s) and temporarily placed in the home of a caregiver who has an existing relationship with the child or the child's family. Family Care for Children & Youth provides formal Kinship Care whereby the county has legal custody of a child and has placed a child through FCCY with a formal Kinship Caregiver.
Related Services
Physical Address
211 Quarry Drive, West Lawn, PA 19609
Hours
Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Voice
Application process
Call, visit website
Fee
Services free of charge
Eligibility
Caregiver must be related to the child through blood or marriage, Caregiver must be a godparent recognized by an organized church, Caregiver must be a member of the child's tribe or clan, or Caregiver must have a significant and positional relationship with the child or the child's family.
Service area
Adams, PA Beaver, PA Bedford, PA Berks, PA Blair, PA Bradford, PA Bucks, PA Cambria, PA Carbon, PA Centre, PA Chester, PA Clinton, PA Columbia, PA Cumberland, PA Dauphin, PA Delaware, PA Fayette, PA Franklin, PA Fulton, PA Greene, PA Huntingdon, PA Indiana, PA Juniata, PA Lackawanna, PA Lancaster, PA Lebanon, PA Lehigh, PA Luzerne, PA Lycoming, PA Mifflin, PA Monroe, PA Montgomery, PA Montour, PA Northampton, PA Northumberland, PA Perry, PA Philadelphia, PA Pike, PA Potter, PA Schuylkill, PA Snyder, PA Somerset, PA Sullivan, PA Susquehanna, PA Tioga, PA Union, PA Wayne, PA Westmoreland, PA Wyoming, PA York, PA
Agency info
Family Care for Children and Youth
Provides children of all ages with specialized, community-based foster care services. Programs provided by four Pennsylvania locations include family-based services, kinship care, adoption services, independent living, emergency placement, homemaker program services, and respite care.