Intensive in-home services for child at risk. Service can be provided by in house or purchased programming. Referrals must be made by Children and Youth.

Provides a temporary substitute family experience for a child who has been removed from their biological home for a variety of reasons.

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.

Provide for the temporary placement of children who, for their own protection, have been removed from the custody of the adults who are responsible for their care and provides ongoing supportive services for children in permanent placement..

Provides investigations about situations where there are concerns that children are being neglected or abused. Abuse can be physical, sexual, or emotional. Neglected children are children who are without proper parental care or control, or education as required by law.

Provides child welfare services through programs in foster care, adoption, and permanency.

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 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

Foster Care program provides training and support for adults wishing to become foster parents. Foster parents are needed to provide temporary care for children of all ages. A stipend is provided for foster parents for the child's care.

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.

Assists in supporting and matching available families with children in need. A per diem is available to assist in meeting the needs of these children.

Provides a licensed, full-service foster care and adoption agency. Provides services such as home studies, education and post placement supervision/reports for families pursuing a foster to adopt placement, domestic private, or international adoption. An affiliate of the PA Statewide Adoption Network. Provides post adoption/post permanency services to any adoptive or permanent kinship family in the area.

Provides home study, evaluation, training, licensing for foster homes, and supportive services for the placement of children up to 18 years of age by Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth.

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.

Operates a residential facility that provides a continuum of care for children displaced from their family home. Includes group home and foster care services for children and youth who don't need the structure of the residential program. All residents attend local schools or the alternative education program on campus. Discharge plans may include family reunification, continuing placement, stepdown to less structure or independence.

Provides a licensed, full-service foster care and adoption agency. Provides services such as home studies, education and post placement supervision/reports for families pursuing a foster to adopt placement, domestic private, or international adoption. An affiliate of the PA Statewide Adoption Network. Provides post adoption/post permanency services to any adoptive or permanent kinship family in the area.

Provides training and support for adults wishing to become foster parents and works with the courts to place children in appropriate foster care. A stipend is provided for foster parents. Diakon Adoption and Foster Care services assists people wishing to adopt. Conducts home studies and ongoing support, when requested. Also provides assistance and emotional support to pregnant women wishing to make designated adoptions. Works with the Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (Swan) to assist families in adopting children with special needs (children older than 5 years, sibling groups, children with emotional, intellectual or physical challenges) and legal-risk adoptions (foster to adopt). No fees for adoptions through the SWAN program, but fees apply for other adoption services.

Provides emergency and long-term placement in foster homes with parent of a Christian background. Offers trainings to prospective care parents.

The purpose of foster family care is to provide healthy and supportive homes for children. Foster care is necessary when children are unable to live with their biological family. Foster families will assist Friendship House in meeting the childs emotional and physical needs, and provide daily care. The ultimate program goal is to prepare children and biological parents for successful reunification whenever possible. Friendship House offers training, financial reimbursement, case manager support and referrals to community services, with round-the-clock access to an "On-Call" case manager.

Provides agency-supervised private family homes in which foster parents have been trained to provide individualized, structured services in a safe, nurturing family living environment for children and adolescents with significant emotional or behavioral problems.

Offers programs that provide alternative family living arrangements in agency-supervised private family homes for children and youth who have been neglected, abused or abandoned.

Provides training and support for adults wishing to become foster parents and works with the courts to place children in appropriate foster care. A stipend is provided for foster parents. Diakon Adoption and Foster Care services assists people wishing to adopt. Conducts home studies and ongoing support, when requested. Also provides assistance and emotional support to pregnant women wishing to make designated adoptions. Works with the Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (Swan) to assist families in adopting children with special needs (children older than 5 years, sibling groups, children with emotional, intellectual or physical challenges) and legal-risk adoptions (foster to adopt). No fees for adoptions through the SWAN program, but fees apply for other adoption services.

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 foster home placements for youth.

Provide homes for infants, young children, teens and adults who cannot remain safe in their own home.