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

Link individuals who are in need of alternative living arrangements with appropriate private family homes that are licensed to provide foster care.

Offers services to to protect children from abuse and neglect, to preserve families whenever possible, and to ensure that every child has a safe, permanent home. Includes general protective services, substitute care, and family-centered services to avoid out-of-home placement.

Offers various community-based placement services designed to provide safe and supportive environments for children who cannot remain in their homes due to issues such as abuse or neglect.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Investigates all allegations of child abuse and neglect, as mandated by state law. Provides a wide range of services to abused and neglected children and their families. Also provides services to adolescents who are at severe risk due to their behavior or that of their parent. 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 placement services for children and youth in need of foster homes.

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

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.

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 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.

Services include general foster care, treatment foster care, medical foster care, kinship foster care, and respite care.

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.

Provides foster care services.

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.

Investigates reports of child abuse and neglect and through investigation take steps to protect children. Steps will be taken to preserve families when possible. Also recruits families to provide foster care.

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.