Our professional staff investigate 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 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.

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.

Provides crisis services and investigates all child abuse and neglect allegations within the county. Case management services conduct home visits, assess the safety of children, and refer children/family to appropriate services. Programs include: Drug and Alcohol Prevention, Triple P, Student Assistance Program, Truancy Outreach, Foster Care, Early Intervention, and Independent Living.

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

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.

Provides services to children and families as they work toward permanence and after adoption.

Provides special needs, domestic and international adoption services and placements. Licensed provider of adoption home studies. Provides foster care placement services. Short-term placement options such as shelter or respite foster care, and long-term options such as specialized/intensive foster care are included. Family Visitation/Transportation Program provides transportation and supervision of visitations between children in substitute care and their non-custodial parents/relatives. Branch Offices: 1101 Northampton Street, Suite 201 Easton, PA 18042 16 South Broadway Suite 2 Wind Gap, PA 18091

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.

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.

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.

Foster care and adoption services for children with behavioral or emotional challenges.

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.

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

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

Offers adoption assistance grants to qualified waiting families. Awards four families per year a grant in the amount of $5000. contingent on available funding. Supports both international and domestic adoption pursuits.

Provides a full service adoption to individuals and families.

Offers placement in emergency shelters, foster homes, group homes, and institutions. Provides adoption services.

Provides counseling and support

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 children with essential clothing year-round.

Serves as an international adoption agency to provide supportive services to adoptive parents and homes for children.

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

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 services for children in order to achieve permanency. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteers are trained citizens who speak for abused and neglected children in the foster care system.