Offers quality, individualized services for children and families in all phases of the adoption process. Services include family profiles, child profiles, child preparation services, finalization, and child-specific recruitment. Training is provided by Family Care for Children and Youth, Inc. for all prospective adoptive families.

Provides a full service adoption to individuals and families.

Provides programs that focus on maintaining healthy family relationships after adoption finalization. Therapists are licensed and credentialed to provide quality and culturally competent services.

Dependent Foster Care services are provided in Pennsylvania to youth including treatment level, mother/baby placement, kinship care, and traditional foster care.

Assisting families and children through permanency and/or kinship process. Adoption services range from infants to older children and those with disabilities.

Provides child welfare services through programs in foster care, adoption, and permanency.

Investigates allegations of abuse and neglect, assures the safety of all children, provides in-home services to those families in need of services, and provides temporary placement for youth when needed.

Offers quality, individualized services for children and families in all phases of the adoption process. Services include family profiles, child profiles, child preparation services, finalization, and child-specific recruitment. Training is provided by Family Care for Children and Youth, Inc. for all prospective adoptive families.

Provides individual and family counseling to assist with stress of an unwanted pregnancy plus exploration of options including adoption (abortion is not offered).

Investigates reports made to our office and work with families, when appropriate, to address conditions which adversely affect a child's care. Our staff work with families directly and also coordinate services with community resources to improve family conditions. In-home Services, Placement Services and Adoption Services are integral to our child protective service function.

Assists those seeking wishing to adopt, place for adoption or find out more information about their adoption. Birth parents receive counseling to explore options in making an informed decision about their child. Families interested in adopting a child are guided through a comprehensive home study evaluation process. Adoption program staff also assist adult adoptees and birth parents of adult adoptees who are interested in initiating a search in order to locate and reconnect with one another.

Offers a full range of adoption services, including home studies, evaluation, placement, assistance for birth mothers wishing to give up their baby for adoption and a support group for waiting families. Also has an assisted reproduction program, including international surrogacy and embryo education.

Works to protect children and youth from abuse and neglect through protective and preventive services. Services include counseling, case management, parenting education, foster home care, adoption services, court-ordered custody evaluations, supervised visitation, re-unification, and permanent placement. Also contracts with other providers for group home care, residential care, life skills education, day care, day treatment, and supervised independent living.

Foster care programming recruits, trains, approves and supports families to provide temporary, substitute care for children in need due to abuse, neglect, deprivation, abandonment and/or a guardianâs inability to care for a child. The children are referred through county children and youth agencies. Kinship Care is a 24 hour out-of-home living arrangement providing care and supervision for a child in an approved home of a relative or family friend. Kinship Care homes must meet the same criteria for approval as a foster family home. Adoption programming seeks to ensure permanency for children in foster care, and works closely with our foster care program to ensure that children who are unable to return home experience minimal disruption.

Designed to offer birth families, the child/adolescent, and the adoptive/permanency parents the availability of counseling and services need for the adoption or permanency process including direct interactions and/or a referral. Provides a continuity of services for children in care whose placement goals are identified for permanent living arrangements including reunification, kinship, adoption, or legal custodianship. Services consist of a Family Profile, Child Profile, Child Preparation, Placement/Finalization Supervision, Child Specific Recruitment, Support Group, and/or post Permanency Services. Fully licensed PA Adoption Agency and a Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) Affiliate.

Supports the work of county agencies in expediting permanency services. Assists families interested in adoption.

Provides information, training, child matching and support to families wishing to adopt. Agency provides private adoption services and also works with the Statewide Adoption and permanency Network (SWAN) to assist families in adopting foster children. No fees for adoptions through the SWAN program, but fees apply for private adoption services.

Offers a variety of intake and in-home services designed to support children and families within the community.

Provides a safe and permanent home for children whose birth parents' rights have been terminated and assist adults 18+ years in locating their birth families.

Provide temporary family living arrangements in agency-supervised private family homes for children who have been relinquished for adoption but have not yet been permanently placed.

Offers counseling for families, couples, and individuals, including: relationship counseling and options counseling. Also makes referrals for medical, housing, and adoption services, and offers post-abortion counseling and STD testing and counseling.

This program prepares interested and qualified families to become adoptive parents for children identified by the State-Wide Adoption Network (SWAN) adoption becomes the permanent goal when reunification of the child and the biological family is not possible. As a SWAN affiliate, Friendship House offers all components of the adoptive process including family and child profiles, child-specific recruitment, child preparation and post-adoptive services.

Offering both Adoption and Foster Care Services. ADOPTION: Conducts home studies and ongoing support, when requested. Also provides assistance and emotional support to pregnant women wishing to make designated adoptions. Works with the Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (Swan) to assist families in adopting children with special needs (children older than 5 years, sibling groups, children with emotional, intellectual or physical challenges) and legal-risk adoptions (foster to adopt). No fees for adoptions through the SWAN program, but fees apply for other adoption services. FOSTER CARE: Foster Care program provides training and support for adults wishing to become foster parents and works with the courts to place children in appropriate foster care. A stipend is provided for foster parents. Provides training and support for adults wishing to become foster parents and works with the courts to place children in appropriate foster care. A stipend is provided for foster parents.

Offers referrals for community resources.

Assess the needs and capabilities of children who have been relinquished for adoption, evaluate prospective adoptive applicants, select and approve adoptive home.