The Infant Adoption program reaches out to both birth parents and adoptive parents. St. Joseph's is committed to building a strong foundation, nurturing the bonds and preparing the way for a lifetime of happiness. At the time of adoption, the birth parents' gift of love is recognized with gratitude as the adoptive family welcomes its new child.

Offers free pre-abortion/prenatal screening with options counseling, pregnancy testing, and ultrasounds. Provides material support in the form of baby supplies and clothing that can be acquired using “Baby Bucks” earned in our birth-parenting classes. We have a one-time emergency supply support program as well.

Adoption services are for children in agency foster care who cannot return home. These are children who are physically and/or mentally handicapped, emotionally disturbed or hard to place because of age, sibling relationship or ethnicity. Special needs children are eligible for a subsidy at the finalization of their adoption until the age of 18. This subsidy will provide medical assistance and financial assistance according to the reasonable needs of the child and the family's resources.

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

Provides and coordinate services based on families court order and CPP; monitor children in their resource home to assure compliance with state regulations; facilitate, transport, and supervise visitation; act as liaison between schools, medical, dental, and other service providers; schedule and attend all court proceedings involving the families; make recommendations and inform the court of families' progress regarding court ordered services; investigate non-registered reports of suspected child abuse and/or neglect; referrals to appropriate services/community resources; provide children with a permanent home through adoption; terminate parental rights so a child can be free for adoption; provide and coordinate services for children and their adoptive resource based on the child's CPP; monitor the children in their adoptive placement; provide all legal documentation to the courts and attorneys; attend all court proceedings leading to the adoption; attend SWAN regional and quarterly meetings; and maintain

Offers counseling and support assistance in designing an adoption plan, help in selecting and meeting an adoptive family for birth parents.

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

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

Works with children who have experienced loss, separation, trauma, and physical/ sexual abuse. In situations where birth families were unable to make the changes needed to keep their children safe within a federally mandated timeline, search, match, and preparation services are provided to match children with families. These foster families take a 10-week intensive therapeautic curriculum and receive case management services in order to ensure success prior to finalization.

Provides a licensed, full-service foster care and adoption agency. Provides services such as home studies, education and post placement supervision/reports for families pursuing a foster to adopt placement, domestic private, or international adoption. An affiliate of the PA Statewide Adoption Network. Provides post adoption/post permanency services to any adoptive or permanent kinship family in the area.

Provides in-home support for a minimum of six months to help children and family understand their permanency goal. Allows children to talk about and understand their past, helps address issues and needs of the child and family, and provides education for the family regarding the child welfare system, the court system, and also the permanency goal of the child.

Provides a safe, supervised environment for youth while also supporting them in preparing for independence. The focus of the coed program is to assist youth with completing educational goals, gaining employment, and developing daily living skills while also enjoying age appropriate privileges.

Provides an adoptive parents link to children awaiting adoption. Children with special needs raised in unstable situation or in foster care can experience the love of a permanent family.

Provides support to women who are pregnant, to families seeking to adopt, and to children in need of a temporary or permanent home when reunification is not an option. Offers assessment of a family's situation, case advocacy, support groups, education, respite, family cam,p and referrals.

Serves children and families in Southwestern PA with foster care, adoption, caregiver support, and medical wraparound services. Assists caregivers in identifying and accessing programs and services to meet the needs of children (age 0 to 17) in their care. Program provides an in-home assessment and resource coordination to support children and caregivers to promote well-being and support healthy positive functioning within the family.

Provides in-depth services to those seeking to adopt international children, domestic infants, older American children, or children with special needs. Also works with children in the foster care system and foster parents, as well as families who have already adopted.

Helps individuals explore the hopes, fears, pitfalls, and risks of adoption and foster parenting as it may impact them and their families. Offers professional coaching/consultation regarding future plans with parenting an adopted child or providing foster care.

Provides support to women who are pregnant, to families seeking to adopt, and to children in need of a temporary or permanent home when reunification is not an option. Offers assessment of a family's situation, case advocacy, support groups, education, respite, family cam,p and referrals.

Provides social services to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.Offers Pregnancy Counseling, Domestic Infant Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Post Pregnancy Services, Safe Families for Children, ADOPTS (Addressing the Distress of Post-Traumatic Stress) Therapy, General Counseling, Foster Care, Refugee Services, and the ReNew Program which provides specialized case management to pregnant women with substance use disorders through the first year of their child's life.

Provides homestudies for individuals or couples who are in the process of adopting an identified child through a private arrangement with a birth family. Counseling services can be arranged for the birth family to assist them through the adoption process. Provides post placement services that include, but are not limited to, in-home supervisions, required reports for the court, home inspections and updated homestudies.

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.

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.

Provides a licensed, full-service foster care and adoption agency. Provides services such as home studies, education and post placement supervision/reports for families pursuing a foster to adopt placement, domestic private, or international adoption. An affiliate of the PA Statewide Adoption Network. Provides post adoption/post permanency services to any adoptive or permanent kinship family in the area.

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.

Works with the Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN) to provide services to children and to provide homestudy services to individuals or couples interested in adopting a child from the Child Welfare System. Services to children include child profiles, child preparation and child specific recruitment. Services to individuals and couples interested in adoption include homestudy services, diligent recruitment services, placement services and supervision services once a child match is made. The children that are available for adoption through this program have been exposed to some form of physical, sexual or emotional abuse or neglect.