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 opportunities to bring children, often between the ages of 5 and 18, into temporary foster care.

Provides placement of children into foster care when there is danger of imminent abuse or neglect. Children may be placed with a relative, foster home, group home, or residential facility depending on the needs of the child.

Works concurrently toward adoption, independent living, permanent legal custodianship or another planned permanent arrangement for the child(ren).

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.

Provides opportunities to bring children, often between the ages of 5 and 18, into temporary 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 children with a safe, comfortable home environment for respite, short-term (less than 30 days) or long term (more than 30 days) placement. Children at this level of care generally do not have major behavioral, emotional or medical issues. Case management may be provided if requested by the placing agency.

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.

Programs that provide alternative family living arrangements in agency-supervised private family homes for children and youth who have been neglected, abused or abandoned in situations where a children's protective services worker or a court has decided that they cannot live safely at home.

Provides opportunities to bring children, often between the ages of 5 and 18, into temporary foster care.

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

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.

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 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.

Most children are served at home and families remain intact. When safety prohibits children from remaining at home, out-of-home placement may be necessary. Children and Youth staff recruit, study, train, and inspect foster homes to ensure the safety of the children residing there.

Services include foster care services and foster to adopt programs, family and community based services, as well as visitation services. Provides independent living and transitional living services to youth. Also provides after-school programs and truancy intervention services.

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 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 in-depth services to those seeking to adopt international children, domestic infants, older American children, or children with special needs. Also works with children in the foster care system and foster parents, as well as families who have already adopted.

Investigates all allegations of child abuse and neglect, as mandated by state law. Services include: Adoption Services, Child Sexual Abuse Center, Child Welfare Day Care, Community Education, Emergency Services, Emergency Shelter Care, 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.

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

Provides child welfare services through programs in foster care, adoption, and permanency. Varying levels of foster care are offered including intensive foster care for youth whose needs cannot be met in their own families; intermediate foster care for youth who generally do not require more intensive interventions; and medical foster care for youth with acute physical, emotional or mental disabilities as an alternative to hospitalization or institutionalization.

Provides residential services to young mothers and children in need at two residential facilities located on a campus in Roxborough. A) Generations I: Provides Supervised Residential Housing for young mothers with one young child. B) Generations II: Provides Transitional Housing for young mothers with up to two young children. C) New Generations: Provides Permanent Supportive Housing for young mothers who have been identified as homeless, each with up to two children.

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.