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

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 child welfare services designed to keep children in their own homes, prevent neglect, abuse and exploration, help overcome problems that result in dependency, neglect and delinquency, and provide adequate substitute care in foster family homes.

Provides services for adoption, placement, independent living, permanent legal custodianship, or another planned permanent arrangements.

Arrange permanent homes under new legal parentage for individuals whose birth parents are unable to provide for their care.

Provides a broad range of foster care services. Offers Family-Based Foster Care for children requiring temporary placement and for infants through teens, who are placed outside their homes or in protective custody.

Assists people wishing to adopt. 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 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 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.

Offers adoption programs. Available children typically range in age from 5 to 12 years old. The children tend to be of minority ethnicity, and are usually placed as part of a sibling group.

Services include foster parent adoption, special needs adoption, private adoption, orientation/training, family profiles/updates, matching services, child profiles, child-specific recruitment, child preparation, coordination of adoption finalization, and post-permanency services.

Provides assistance to address safety, permanency, and well-being issues of children. Includes child welfare, adoption and foster care, and other social services.

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.

Offers adoption programs. Available children typically range in age from 5 to 12 years old. The children tend to be of minority ethnicity, and are usually placed as part of a sibling group.

All Statewide Adoption & Permanency Services (SWAN) are provided with an emphasis on finding supportive mentors & lifelong connections for children & youth as they become adults.

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.

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.

Provides training, home studies, adoption counseling, and post-placement supervision for all types of adoptions. Sponsors educational and support groups for adoptive families. Provides post-permanency services through SWAN Helpline. Provides referral to child placement agencies.

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.

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.

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.

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

Assists with adoption placement.

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.

Makes every attempt to find a forever family for adoptable children who are currently within the state's foster care system. More than 5,000 of these children are waiting for permanent homes.

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.