Foster Care Services Pennsylvania

FOSTER CARE SERVICES PENNSYLVANIA

Providing Compassionate, Dedicated Foster Care Services Across the State

Making a Positive Difference in the Pennsylvania Community

Family Care for Children & Youth is proud to provide a number of different foster care services in six different locations across Pennsylvania. More than 25,000 children across the state are not living with their families, and we want to make a positive difference in their lives. Giving a child a stable home can make an incredible impact. If you are thinking about becoming a foster parent, please get in touch with us to learn more about the process.

Pennsylvania Foster Care Service Overview

Family-Based Foster Care Services

The family-based foster care services offered by Family Care for Children & Youth are designed to support children who have special needs, behavioral issues, difficulty in school, and more. In these cases, the child’s needs go beyond what traditional foster homes can offer. Unfortunately, many of these children end up being sent to group homes or state-operated institutions. While these programs do offer quality care and seek to provide each child with a safe and stable environment, they cannot replicate the loving and supportive environment of a family. At Family Care for Children & Youth, we place children in foster homes that are able to provide them with guidance and support each and every day. We also regularly contact biological families at least once each month to go over visitation and the child’s progress.

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The homemaker services offered by Family Care for Children & Youth are designed to complement all of our placement and reunification programs. Homemakers model the roles of parents, providers, and citizens for not just the child, but for the family as a whole. We believe that family life should be approached holistically, and our Pennsylvania homemaker services have three main goals:

To ensure that children are placed into safe and supportive homes that can meet their individual needs. This is accomplished via frequent homemaker visits, assessments, and training.
To strengthen the biological/legal family in order to prevent additional placement once our homemaker services have come to an end.
To empower families to become more self-sufficient through the discovery and use of community resources.

Kinship Care

Moving to a new home and adapting to a new living situation is not easy, especially for children who have lived in stressful and chaotic environments. Many children begin to experience even more anxiety and emotional distress when placed into unfamiliar environments, and the effects of childhood trauma can last well into adulthood. The Family Care for Children & Youth Kinship Care program allows a child to be placed under the care of someone with whom they already share a personal relationship. In addition to providing children with a safe environment in which they’re already comfortable, it also provides an added layer of commitment on the part of the caregiver. Between FCCY’s strong support network and a familiar environment, this program has been a positive and successful solution for many children in Pennsylvania.

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Family Care for Children & Youth is proud to be a Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) Affiliate. This means that we provide some services free of charge, as long as the resource family is interested in adopting a Pennsylvania child from the child welfare system. We also offer our foster care and adoption services to clients and resource families who are interested in adopting a child who is not currently in the Pennsylvania child welfare system for a small fee.

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Independent Living

At FCCY, our mission is to help children today, tomorrow, and well into their adult years. We offer a number of independent living services designed to help young men between the ages of 18 and 21 develop the habits and skills they need for a brighter future. Among other negative outcomes, our independent living services have been designed to reduce the risk of homelessness, teen pregnancy, and poor workplace performance. Some of the many skills we teach include:

Emergency Placement

Family Care for Children & Youth’s mission is to provide children and young adults with safe and secure environments, especially during emergency circumstances. Any number of situations can create the need for a child to be placed into emergency foster care, and we are available to help 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In emergency circumstances, we can place children into short-term foster care homes for up to 30 days. Every member of our staff is trained to act in an empathetic and compassionate way that minimizes the trauma associated with rapid transitions and keeps the child’s best interests in mind. Once the child has been placed into a short-term foster care arrangement, we will work to develop a personalized plan that extends beyond the 30 days of emergency placement. We often suggest that children be placed into our family-based foster care program following emergency placement.

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Respite Care

Respite care is a short-term arrangement in which a child is placed with a new family. It can be pre-planned to give parents and caregivers time to take care of themselves, and it can also be used during emergency situations in which a child needs to relocate to a familiar setting. Respite care can also benefit children who would like to take a break from group homes, institutions, and other living situations. Respite care is just one several short-term foster care services we offer in Pennsylvania. Please get in touch with one of our locations if you would like to learn more about how you or a child under your care could benefit from this program.

Learn More About Foster Care Services in Pennsylvania

Thousands of children across Pennsylvania are in need of a loving family. Family Care for Children & Youth is proudly making a difference one life at a time, but we need your help to give every child in need the loving care that they deserve. If you are interested in learning more about becoming a foster parent or any of the foster care services discussed on this page, we invite you to get in touch with one of our six offices. You can also fill out the form below to reach us via email. Thank you for your interest in Family Care for Children & Youth. We look forward to speaking with you.

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Family Care for Children & Youth is a private, nonprofit social service agency providing children of all ages with specialized, community-based foster care services. Programs provided by FCCY’s six Pennsylvania locations include Family-Based Services, Family Reunification/Family-Based Services, Kinship Care/Family-Based Services, Kinship Care Home Studies, Adoption Services, Independent Living, Emergency Shelter, and Respite Care.

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They care about the children and are very thorough

My husband and I always tell people that talk to us about wanting to foster or adopt about our agency. We enjoy working with this agency because the staff not only care about the careful p…Read More

Alice Cedrone
We enjoy giving back

Fostering is very positive experience not only for ourselves but also for the child’s well-being. We enjoy giving back. Providing a loving, nurturing home to a child gives the child an o…Read More

Millie Flores
We would recommend FCCY

Picking FCCY to work with has been the best thing my husband and I could have done. We have had only positive experiences with this agency. The case managers are so good and give you total s…Read More

P. Kyler