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Provide alternative family living arrangements in agency-supervised private family homes for children and youth who have been neglected, bused or abandoned.

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.

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 foster homes. There are varying levels of care depending on the child's needs.

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 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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Placements for abused and neglected children and youth who are adjudicated dependent through Juvenile Court.

Offers safe, temporary housing for children birth to 18 who are removed from their homes due to issues such as abuse, neglect, an at risk environment and improper parenting. All family avenues are exhausted before a child is placed in this care environment. The program also provides for recruitment and supervision of resource homes as well as training for resource parents.

Foster care offers a partnership between the agency and foster parents towards meeting the needs of a child while they are living away from their own family. This program works cooperatively with foster parents and the child’s own family to develop a plan to meet the child’s needs and to reunite the child with their own family whenever possible.

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

Offering both Adoption and Foster Care Services. ADOPTION: 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. FOSTER CARE: Foster Care program 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. 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.

Provides services to empower all families to provide love, shelter and protection for their children outside of any public agency.

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.

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

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.

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