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Allows children to tell their story only once to a specially trained forensic interviewer. Guides each child and family through the investigation and offered multiple services to help heal and restore their lives.

Provides victims with an alternate mailing address to keep their actual home address out of public records where their perpetrator may find their location. The confidential address may be used as a legal address for court and government records, including driver’s licenses, non-photo ID cards, vehicle registration, school records, voter registration, marriage licenses, and court petitions. The ACP forwards all first-class, registered and certified mail to the participant, free of charge.

Offers training to the community on how to prevent and recognize child abuse.

Offers a full range of educational programs that emphasize healthy relationships and challenge the acceptance of violence as a means of coping with adversity. Age appropriate courses are tailored to students from elementary school through college. All programs are offered in-person and virtually.

Provides small and large group training and education on abuse recognition and reporting.

Provides students, parents & group education presentations, STD educational information, drug & alcohol resources and referrals. Also offers a variety of resources and referrals for mental health, domestic violence and sexual assault and more.

Provides individual adult counseling, marriage or couples counseling, divorce/separation counseling, family counseling, counseling for children, counseling for teens and young adults,, bilingual/bicultural counseling, mental health counseling, and substance abuse counseling.

Offers intervention and counseling to help with children's problems in school, home, or community. Coordinates services provided to families through case management.

Offers a comprehensive response to allegations of child abuse throughout Warren County. Available services include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, facility dog program, court accompaniment, case coordination and management, child abuse prevention information, child abuse reporting information, a speakers bureau, and customized training.

The Wayne County Office of Children and Youth, under Pennsylvania law, is mandated to investigate all reports of suspected abuse, neglect, or dependency of children from birth to age 18 in Wayne County. Our professional staff investigate reports made to the office and work with families, when appropriate, to address conditions which adversely affect a child’s care. The staff works with families directly and also coordinates services with community resources to improve family conditions. In-home services, placement services, and adoption services are integral to the child protective service function.

Provides intake services division, family preservation services division, reunification and permanency services division, family group decision making, and other services.

Provides free and confidential services to victims experiencing domestic violence and/or sexual assault, and their family members in the past or present. Also provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, including crisis counseling, emergency room accompaniment, legal advocacy, emergency shelter, outreach service, and community prevention education and primary prevention programs throughout McKean county.

Investigates reports of child abuse, neglect or abandonment; document substantiated cases; provide for the temporary placement of children who, for their own protection, have been removed from the custody of the adults who are responsible for their care; work with families who are experiencing a problem with child abuse with the objective of facilitating continued family unification or reunification; and provide ongoing supportive services for children in permanent placement.

Offers daily prevention programs that discuss and help youth with a number of topics. Topics include: self-esteem, drugs. alcohol, violence, and high risk behaviors.

Offers a dynamic, family-focused prevention program that benefits all kinds of families who care for children aged 10-15. Provides a 7-week program that teaches children and their families skills they need to be a stronger, more effective family, such as building positive relationships, setting appropriate limits, and following through with consequences.

Protective Services works to safeguard children from abuse and serious neglect and implement the Child Protective Services Law. Investigate reports of child abuse and neglect.Assistance includes parental instruction and education, protective and preventive social counseling, emergency homemaker services, emergency shelter placement, emergency medical services and self-help groups.

Provides a range of prevention, protection, and supportive services with an emphasis on family preservation whenever possible. Caseworkers provide emergency and planned temporary out-of-home care when necessary to a small percentage of children active with the agency. Works to reunite families whenever possible. When reunification is not a possibility, Caseworkers work to provide a permanent, legally assured home through adoption or permanent legal custodianship. Children who age out of the system transition into independent living services. Services are provided directly by caseworkers, CYF support staff and by a network of contracted agencies.

Developed to work with families where a child has been identified to be at risk of abuse and neglect. IIHS is a treatment oriented unit where caseworkers use reality based therapeutic techniques designed to empower clients to make changes themselves to reduce the risk of abuse to the child. The goal of the unit is to protect children and youth while keeping families together. In addition to counseling, IIHS offers Life Skills Education, Parenting Education, Parent and Youth Advisors and 24 hour crisis intervention.

Provides a range of prevention, protection, and supportive services with an emphasis on family preservation whenever possible. Caseworkers provide emergency and planned temporary out-of-home care when necessary to a small percentage of children active with the agency. Works to reunite families whenever possible. When reunification is not a possibility, Caseworkers work to provide a permanent, legally assured home through adoption or permanent legal custodianship. Children who age out of the system transition into independent living services. Services are provided directly by caseworkers, CYF support staff and by a network of contracted agencies.

Provides a range of prevention, protection, and supportive services with an emphasis on family preservation whenever possible. Caseworkers provide emergency and planned temporary out-of-home care when necessary to a small percentage of children active with the agency. Works to reunite families whenever possible. When reunification is not a possibility, Caseworkers work to provide a permanent, legally assured home through adoption or permanent legal custodianship. Children who age out of the system transition into independent living services. Services are provided directly by caseworkers, CYF support staff and by a network of contracted agencies.

Provides immediate response to personal crisis related to children where safety is an issue.

Provide informative presentations about domestic violence to community groups. Professional trainings are offered and tailored to the workplace. All programs are offered in-person and virtually.

Provides individual adult counseling, marriage or couples counseling, divorce/separation counseling, family counseling, counseling for children, counseling for teens and young adults,, bilingual/bicultural counseling, mental health counseling, and substance abuse counseling.

Provides a range of prevention, protection, and supportive services with an emphasis on family preservation whenever possible. Caseworkers provide emergency and planned temporary out-of-home care when necessary to a small percentage of children active with the agency. Works to reunite families whenever possible. When reunification is not a possibility, Caseworkers work to provide a permanent, legally assured home through adoption or permanent legal custodianship. Children who age out of the system transition into independent living services. Services are provided directly by caseworkers, CYF support staff and by a network of contracted agencies.

Promotes the well-being of children and their families. Investigates reports involving abused, neglected, exploited, or truant/incorrigible children and provide in-home services to families who meet Children and Youth legal criteria. Provides intervention in family disputes and crises. Offers services including information and referral, courtesy services for other child welfare agencies, screening, mediation and brief intervention, safety and risk assessment, investigations, parent and life skills training, in-home protective services, case management and collaboration, family service planning, placement services, reunification planning, permanency planning, and adoption.