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Serves as the point of entry to services that protect children from abuse and neglect, preserve families whenever possible, and ensure that every child has a safe, stable, and permanent home in which to grow. Services include child protection services, foster services, and more.

Provides placement of children into foster care homes.

Provides a range of prevention, protection, and supportive services with an emphasis on family preservation whenever possible. Caseworkers provide emergency and planned temporary out-of-home care when necessary to a small percentage of children active with the agency. Works to reunite families whenever possible. When reunification is not a possibility, Caseworkers work to provide a permanent, legally assured home through adoption or permanent legal custodianship. Children who age out of the system transition into independent living services. Services are provided directly by caseworkers, CYF support staff and by a network of contracted agencies.

Provides a range of prevention, protection, and supportive services with an emphasis on family preservation whenever possible. Caseworkers provide emergency and planned temporary out-of-home care when necessary to a small percentage of children active with the agency. Works to reunite families whenever possible. When reunification is not a possibility, Caseworkers work to provide a permanent, legally assured home through adoption or permanent legal custodianship. Children who age out of the system transition into independent living services. Services are provided directly by caseworkers, CYF support staff and by a network of contracted agencies.

Pennsylvania MENTOR’s dedicated team is available 24/7 to respond to emergency placement calls for children and adults. One of our experienced professionals will be there to answer calls and begin the placement process after office hours and on weekends and holidays.

Provides financial assistance, ongoing training and professional guidance and recognition for foster parents committed to meeting the medical, emotional, and behavioral needs of a child. Case management and outreach services are extended to each child's foster family and family of origin.

Provides child welfare services through programs in foster care, adoption, and permanency. Foster parents provide alternative living arrangements when it has been determined tha a child cannot remain in the home of his/her biological parents. Children are matched with families who are able to best meet their needs.

Provides emergency foster care placement services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If a child is in immediate need of a safe place to stay, FCCY can provide short-term placement with a foster family for up to 30 days. During this time period, appropriate plans for future living arrangements will be made by all involved parties, including the child, the county caseworker, the children's biological/legal family, the FCCY case manager, and the foster family. In many situations, it is suggested that the child be moved from emergency placement to our Family-Based Services program.

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 assessment and investigation of allegations of child abuse and neglect. Conducts general protective service assessments and child protective service investigations when allegations of child abuse/neglect are reported to the agency or to ChildLine, and when the abuse is alleged to have occurred in Mercer County.

Links youth and young adults who are in need of alternative living arrangements with appropriate private family homes that are licensed to provide foster care.

Provides emergency foster care placement services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If a child is in immediate need of a safe place to stay, FCCY can provide short-term placement with a foster family for up to 30 days. During this time period, appropriate plans for future living arrangements will be made by all involved parties, including the child, the county caseworker, the children's biological/legal family, the FCCY case manager, and the foster family. In many situations, it is suggested that the child be moved from emergency placement to our Family-Based Services program.

Provides child protective services, caseworker assistance, counseling referrals, general investigation and research, and coordination with Mental Health services.

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

This program provides temporary emergency foster home placement and ongoing supportive foster home placement for children and youth from various counties in Pennsylvania. As a Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) affiliate, the program also provides permanency services that are currently offered include family profiles, child profiles, child preparation, and finalization.

Recruits, screens, and trains foster families who are able to provide safe and loving homes for children in need of care. Offers services to help parents to obtain resources and assistance to keep families together when possible. Oversees the care of children placed through Auberle.

Provides a foster family program to enable children who have been abused, neglected, or are otherwise without proper parental care to experience a safe, secure, stable and nurturing environment at a difficult time in their lives.

Provides substitute family life experience for a child at a time of crisis or need.

Places children with foster families who have been specially trained to care for children with trauma, medical, mental or behavioral needs. Also provides placement for pregnant teens and teenage mothers and their babies.

Offers Foster care for children, ages newborn to 23, including those with special medical and/or behavioral needs.

Provides foster care services to recruit, study, train, and inspect foster homes to ensure the safety of the children residing there.

Provides emergency foster care placement services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If a child is in immediate need of a safe place to stay, FCCY can provide short-term placement with a foster family for up to 30 days. During this time period, appropriate plans for future living arrangements will be made by all involved parties, including the child, the county caseworker, the children's biological/legal family, the FCCY case manager, and the foster family. In many situations, it is suggested that the child be moved from emergency placement to our Family-Based Services program.

Licensed to pursue an adoption to finalization. The Institute also assists individuals in becoming certified foster parents through our foster care program. Also offers emergency placement and emergency respite service.

Provides placement services for children and youth in need of foster homes.

Investigates all allegations of child abuse and neglect, as mandated by state law. Provides a wide range of services including: Adoption Services, Child Sexual Abuse Center, Child Welfare, Community Education, Emergency Services, Family Support Services, Foster Care and Kinship Care Services, Independent Living Services for Transition-Age Youth, Information and Referral, Home Protective Services (SCOH), Intake Evaluations, Residential Placement, Supervised Independent Living.