Provides an adoptive parents link to children awaiting adoption in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Children with special needs raised in unstable situation or in foster care can experience the love of a permanent family with the Special Needs Adoption program. Oftentimes, special needs children have mental, emotional, or physical challenges.

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

Serves as a crisis pregnancy, educational, and resource center. Services include confidentail prenatal, post natal, and post abortion counseling; maternity clothing; baby clothing, sizes newborn to 24 months; nursery supplies; and referrals for medical care, financial aid, legal assistance, and adoption services.

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 foster care and foster-adoption services to children and families through Statewide Adoption & Permanency Services (SWAN).

Provides various adoption services.

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 a domestic adoption program.

Provides search services to individuals adopted through Catholic Charities Diocese of Allentown.

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

Provides a variety of child placement services for both children and families, including adoption searches, child profiles, child preparation, home studies, and post-permanency services. As an affiliate of the Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN), FSNWPA recruits and assesses families who wish to adopt children available through any Office of Children and Youth agency in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Children available for adoption are typically age 6 or older and may have a history of physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect. They may also have medical or educational limitations or emotional problems.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Facilitates adoptions between families and children from infancy to 21-years-old. Specifically seeks placements with families who are willing to care for siblings and older children.

Operates the Children's Home of York's Permanency Program. Provides a variety of services for children and their biological, foster, and/or adoptive families from birth through the age of 18. Maintains an ongoing process of recruitment, screening, and training which enables us to offer diverse geographical and racial/ethnic environments essential to the successful placement of children and sibling groups of all ages who have a variety of emotional and psychological needs.

Private adoption agency

Offering counseling and support by licensed professionals, assistance in designing an adoption plan, help in selecting and meeting an adoptive family for birth parents. Assistance in fulfilling the requirements for adoption with the care and compassion to meet each family's unique needs; affordable domestic and international adoption home studies; counseling by licensed professionals; support and advocacy beyond the placement of a child for adoptive families

Assistance with private and state subsidized adoptions through the Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN). Complete home studies for a family aspiring to become an adoptive family, post-placement supervision and reports for children in pre-adoptive placements and out of state adoptions. Post adoption supports and services.

Helps prospective adoptive parents learn about the options, costs, risks, and rewards of various adoption possibilities.