HEALING SPIRITS. NURTURING CHILDREN. SERVING COMMUNITIES. SINCE 1877.
PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Community-Based Child Welfare Services
For further information, please call the Village at 215.730.2240.
Foster Care and Kinship Care - Foster Care and Kinship Care provide a temporary placement in safe and nurturing homes for children who are removed from their parents' custody due to their inability to properly care for their child. Foster/Kinship parents not only act as temporary parents for the child, but also assist the agency in working with the birth parents to assess whether the child can be safely reunited with his or her family.
Core components of the program are:
- Traditional Foster Care is placement with a trained and certified person or family who is not known to the child.
- Kinship Care is placement with a trained and certified person or family member who is known to the child, such as a relative, friend, or neighbor.
- Treatment Foster Care is for children with serious mental health and behavioral health challenges. Treatment foster parents receive additional training and participate in the treatment of the children at a level higher than that of traditional foster care.
Foster Parent Recruitment - This is an ongoing service to identify families that can make a commitment to provide a temporary safe and nurturing home, to follow all of the rules designed to keep children safe, and work as a partner with the birth family and the Village to assure that the children's needs are meet. Our foster parents live throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. If you are interested in learning more about becoming a foster parent, please call 215.730.2240.
In Home Protective Services (IHPS) provides an array of services designed to strengthen families and avoid placement for families where DHS has determined that there is an active safety threat.
Adoption - If families are unable to make the changes needed to keep their children safe within a federally mandated timeline, the most desirable choice is adoption. Parental rights are terminated and another family is identified to adopt the child. Frequently, it is the foster, kinship or treatment foster family who are first approached in these cases.
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Nondiscrimination in Services: Admissions to services, the provision of services, and the referral of clients are made without regard to race, color, religious creed, disability, ancestry, national origin, sex, or sexual orientation.
