Identify and enlist individuals and couples who are willing to provide a permanent home and new legal parentage for children who have been relinquished for adoption.

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 programs to increase the number of families available to foster/adopt children. TRAC provides pre-service training, family profiles, and ongoing placement support. TRAC also provides post adoption services and outpatient therapy.

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.

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

Identify and enlist individuals and couples who are willing to provide a permanent home and new legal parentage for children who have been relinquished for adoption.