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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Offers a variety of services to children from birth to 21 years of age ranging from regular foster care to specialized, issue-specific programs, all of which are child-centered, family-focused, community-based. multi-systemed, culturally competent and least restrictive.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This program provides temporary emergency foster home placement and ongoing supportive foster home placement for children and youth from various counties in Pennsylvania. As a Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) affiliate, the program also provides permanency services that are currently offered include family profiles, child profiles, child preparation, and finalization.

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.

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..

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

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.