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Foster Love Project - Resources and Support

Provides resources and support to empower foster children and their families. Offers free shopping services including clothing, diapers, car seats, bedding, books, toys, toiletries, luggage, baby gear, cribs, and more.

What's Here

Children's Clothing
Personal/Grooming Supplies
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Baby Clothing

Red Bird Mental Health - Adoption and Foster Care Support and Counseling

Offers counseling for foster and adoptive children to address the multifaceted challenges arising from traumas. Provides a comprehensive approach geared towards establishing and maintaining consistent, secure environments vital for the wellbeing of children. Offers parenting support, counseling, and education for birth, adoptive, foster, and kinship parents.

What's Here

Foster Children
Therapy Referrals
Individual Counseling
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Mental Health Issues

Delaware County Office of Children and Youth Services - Eddystone Office

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.

What's Here

Child Welfare/Family Services Associations
Foster Home Placement
Adoption Services
Community Shelters
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Kinship Care
Children's Protective Services
Child Abuse Hotlines

Pennsylvania KinConnector - Listing of Local Kinship Care Groups by County

Provides list of support groups for Kinship Caregivers hosted by agencies across Pennsylvania.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Pressley Ridge Altoona - Adoption/Foster Care Support

Support group for individuals involved with adoption and/or foster care.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Three Rivers Adoption Council - Adoptive Family Groups

Provides peer support, exchange of information and resources, and recruitment of families for waiting children. Offers support and technical assistance to parent groups throughout Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania. Hosts adoptive family support group, Chat 'n' Chill.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Peer Counseling

COBYS Family Services - Post Permanency Services

Free support for adoptive families, legal guardians, and kinship care providers to help them and the children in their homes. Case Advocacy Mediating between biological families and children Networking with other community service providers Providing therapeutic providers Acting as advocates to obtain specialized help Respite Family activities that enhance attachment and bonding Daytime or overnight care for children by trained respite providers Camp experiences Support Group Access to various virtual/in-person support groups throughout the state

What's Here

Adoption Services
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Pennsylvania KinConnector - KINdred Spirits Virtual Support Group

Offers online support group for kinship caregivers. Each session has an educational or topical component along with open disussion and time to share stories, concerns, and questions with each other.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Internet Support Groups
Grandparents
Kinship Caregivers

Bethany Christian Services Philadelphia - Pregnancy Support

Provided to young women with unplanned pregnancies. All options of parenting or adoption are explored. Birth parent can select the adoptive couple. Services Include: A) Help in securing medical care B) Assistance in finding living arrangements C) Information on available choices

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Crisis Pregnancy Hotlines
Pregnancy Counseling

Together as Adoptive Parents - Support Services

Provides a support network for adoptive, preadoptive, and foster families. Services are provided in a variety of ways including a warmline, newsletter, website, resource directory, conferences, and monthly parent group meetings.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Family Pathways - Generations: Kinship Care for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children

Offers support for grandparents and other relatives who are providing kinship care for children.

What's Here

Case/Care Management
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Kinship Caregivers

Salvation Army - Allegheny County Service Units - God Sent Grandparents Support Group

Support group with discussion on grandparent rights, grandparents and care giving.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Delaware County Office of Children and Youth Services - Drexel Hill Office

Investigates all allegations of child abuse and neglect, as mandated by state law. Services include: 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.

What's Here

Foster Home Placement
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Child Abuse Hotlines
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Child Welfare/Family Services Associations
Adoption Services
Kinship Care
Community Shelters
Children's Protective Services

Every Child - Family Supports

Serves children and families in Southwestern PA with foster care, adoption, caregiver support, and medical wraparound services. Assists caregivers in identifying and accessing programs and services to meet the needs of children (age 0 to 17) in their care. Program provides an in-home assessment and resource coordination to support children and caregivers to promote well-being and support healthy positive functioning within the family.

What's Here

Parent Support Groups
Parent Counseling
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Adoption Services

Coatesville Center for Community Health - GRANDFamily Connections of Chester County

Offers support for Grandfamilies and Kinship Families to assist them personally and in raising the children in their care. Services include providing information and referral resource, household Items, and peer support groups.

What's Here

Parent Support Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Peer Mental Health Support Services
Kinship Caregivers

Sidney and Pauline Friedman Jewish Community Center - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Support Group

Offers a monthly support group for grandparents who are primary caregivers for their grandchildren.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
In Person Support Groups
Grandparents

Franklin County Government - Caregiver Support Program - Grandparent Component

Offers aid to families who find themselves in a kinship care situation. Provides support services which include information to caregivers about available services; assistance to caregivers in gaining access to the services; individual counseling, organization of support groups, training of caregivers to assist them in decision-making and problem-solving that are related to their caregiving roles; and reimbursement for services and/or supplies.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Kinship Care Subsidy Programs

Red Bird Mental Health - Adoption and Foster Care Support and Counseling

Offers counseling for foster and adoptive children to address the multifaceted challenges arising from traumas. Provides a comprehensive approach geared towards establishing and maintaining consistent, secure environments vital for the wellbeing of children. Offers parenting support, counseling, and education for birth, adoptive, foster, and kinship parents.

What's Here

Foster Children
Therapy Referrals
Individual Counseling
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Mental Health Issues

Pressley Ridge - Parenting Family Support Group

Offers a mutual support group for individuals involved with adoption, foster care, kinship care, and parenting.

What's Here

Parent Support Groups
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Lycoming/Clinton Joinder Board - Foster Care / Adoption / Shelter Care Services

Provides foster care and the recruitment and training of foster parents, adoption, parent support, independent living, and shelter care.

What's Here

Child/Adolescent Residential Treatment Facilities
Intensive Family Reunification Services
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption Services
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Foster Home Placement

Wayne Memorial Health System - Grands Raising Grands Support Group

A support group for grandparents who are primary caregivers for their grandchildren.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Grandparents

Independent Support Groups - Grandparents As Parents

Primarily for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Also open to grandparents who are seeking custody of/visitation with their grandchildren or to those who are only providing day care for their grandchildren. Members provide mutual support while sharing problems and solutions encountered in raising their grandchildren. Provides support to ANY grandparent who has concerns about a grandchild.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Lackawanna County Area Agency on Aging - Parents a Second Time (PAST) Support Group

Support group for older adults raising children of a family member. Offers access to potential resources, community programs and services, and agencies available to provide connections, guidance and peer support to older persons who are living with, caring for and parenting the children of loved ones. Child care and refreshments provided at the meeting.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Adoptions from The Heart - Birthparent Support Groups

A support network for birthmothers who have placed a child or are due to deliver and are considering making adoption plans for their child. They may continue in the group as long as necessary.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Together as Adoptive Parents - See Me/See Who I am

Provides support and services for teens that have been involved in the foster care system.

What's Here

Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups