Child welfare program. Provides adoption services, preventive services, and foster care resulting from voluntary or court placement. Resource Family Homefinding Unit maintains a constant availability of safe foster and adoptive home placement resources. This is achieved through ongoing recruitment, identification, training, and development of potential foster/adoptive resource families, with a primary objective of prudent evaluation and suitable placement of needy children into foster/adoptive homes. The Homefinding Team responds to inquiries from interested families providing pertinent information about the application process, necessary training, homestudy development, and the role of being a foster/adoptive parent.

Maintains foster care placement and foster homes. Also recruits, trains, and certifies foster parents.

Provides foster homes for children who are legally removed from their home of origin by the courts.

Provides the information and guidance to eligible individuals and couples who are interested in foster care or adoption. Also provides the placement of children who can no longer stay with their parents.

The Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) program offers loving, stable homes to children who, for various reasons, are unable to live with their birth parents or family members at this time.TFC serves children of all social, economic and ethnic backgrounds, between the ages of 5 and 18. TFC services children with behavioral, social, and/or emotional challenges.Through counseling and the support of their foster parents, the children are encouraged to acquire better self-control and improved social skills.

Foster care placement for children in the custody of Ulster County Department of Social Services who require a higher level of care than traditional foster care. Youth are placed with a teaching couple and receive therapy, educational support, and medical services.

The Empower program provides services to youth in foster care that are at risk of, or have been victims of exploitation and/or complex sexual trauma that require residential and supportive services. The program accepts adolescent girls and transgender youth ages 11-21.

Provides a temporary family living situation during the time that a child's family is unable to care for them or while they await permanent placement.

Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is a program funded by a grant from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a national non-profit public charity that brings children waiting in foster care one-step closer to being adopted into safe, loving and permanent homes. Our WWK program provides child-focused adoption recruiters that work in Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan counties in New York.

Provides foster care and adoption services for children referred by Erie County DSS. Provides safe temporary family care for children who must be removed from their home because of abuse and neglect. Provides services to parents to help them acquire the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to parent their children safely and reunite their family. When this is not possible, the program provides safe and permanent homes for children through adoption. Also recruits, screens, trains, and supports foster and adoptive parents.

Provides seamless services for foster families and adoptive families of children 0-21 years old, including initial training, certification for foster parents, ongoing training, permanency planning, therapeutic support, medical support and training, in-house clinical team, and weekly face-to-face contact for guidance and support. Resources are offered to assist in the transition of a child entering the foster family's home, both pre-and post-adoption. Additional services provided by on-staff driver/transporter, skill builders, nursing team who provide support for all children placed in care and their foster families, specializing in care for medically therapeutic and high risk children. Staff have experience in the foster care system and/or as foster parents themselves, and are aware of the supports needed to succeed. Post Adoption and post guardianship/kinship services are available through the GA Regional Permanency Center (RPC) provided by OCFS grants. Additional programs include children’s Health Homes, and Chautauqua County based Accountability and Responsibility Program for at risk teens and Family Time Visitation services.

Maintains foster care placement and foster homes. Also recruits, trains, and certifies foster parents.

Provides seamless services for foster families and adoptive families of children 0-21 years old, including initial training, certification for foster parents, ongoing training, permanency planning, therapeutic support, medical support and training, in-house clinical team, and weekly face-to-face contact for guidance and support. Resources are offered to assist in the transition of a child entering the foster family's home, both pre-and post-adoption. Additional services provided by on-staff driver/transporter, skill builders, nursing team who provide support for all children placed in care and their foster families, specializing in care for medically therapeutic and high risk children. Staff have experience in the foster care system and/or as foster parents themselves, and are aware of the supports needed to succeed. Post Adoption and post guardianship/kinship services are available through the GA Regional Permanency Center (RPC) provided by OCFS grants. Additional programs include children’s Health Homes, and Chautauqua County based Accountability and Responsibility Program for at risk teens and Family Time Visitation services. Additional services provided by on-staff driver/transporter, skills builder, and nurse, who provides support for all children placed in care and their foster families, specializing in care for medically fragile and high risk children. Staff have experience in the foster care system and/or as foster parents themselves, and are aware of the supports needed to succeed.

Recruits, trains, and supports foster parents, including those providing therapeutic foster care. - Works with kinship homes, traditional two parent homes, single parent homes, same-sex couples, and racially diverse homes. - Offers 24-hour emergency support. - Offers monitored visitation with birth family. - Offers support from Licensed Social Worker and Mental Health professionals as well as case managers. - Offers support groups and training to Foster Parents as well as respite (babysitting) if needed and assistance in all areas of care. - Provides psychiatric services when needed. - Practices "Normative Culture" which is based on all team members (foster families included) valuing and exhibiting four norms: Respect, Responsibility, Goal Directed Behaviors, and Safety (emotional, psychological, and physical). - Provides practice and training in trauma informed and trauma sensitive environments and approaches.

Offers preventive services to avoid child placement in foster care, future child abuse, and the need for child protective services intervention. Provides services for families to achieve reunification when their children have been removed to foster care or other out of home placement. Also included are home-finding and adoption services.

Collaborates with community agencies and service providers to support families based on their cultural and individual strengths and needs to provide preventive and foster care services. Provides child welfare program, adoption services, preventive services, and foster care resulting from voluntary or court placement. Preventive services are supports and assistance to help a family learn skills (such as coping skills, parenting skills, budgeting skills, anger management, etc.) that will prevent a child from being abused and therefore removed from the home.

Provides services for children in need of a temporary home until their parents gain enough stability in their lives to have them returned. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is strictly adhered to.

Provides services for children in need of a temporary home until their parents gain enough stability in their lives to have them returned. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is strictly adhered to.

Offers preventive services to avoid child placement in foster care, future child abuse, and the need for child protective services intervention. Provides services for families to achieve reunification when their children have been removed to foster care or other out of home placement. Also included are home-finding and adoption services.

Provides support and guidance for people who have adopted a child, or would like to adopt. Places and monitors children who are in need of alternative living arrangements with private family homes that are licensed to provide foster care. Offers training for families who wish to offer foster care services in their homes.

Maintains foster care placement and foster homes. Also recruits, trains, and certifies foster parents.

The Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) program offers loving, stable homes to children who, for various reasons, are unable to live with their birth parents or family members at this time.TFC serves children of all social, economic and ethnic backgrounds, between the ages of 5 and 18. TFC services children with behavioral, social, and/or emotional challenges.Through counseling and the support of their foster parents, the children are encouraged to acquire better self-control and improved social skills.

Recruits, certifies and trains prospective foster parents in order to provide homes for children who are temporarily removed from their birth families. Works with birth parents, children and foster parents with the goal of reunification. Works with group homes and residential treatment centers for children who need a higher level of structure. Provides ongoing supportive services to foster families. The Adoption Unit works with children who cannot be reunited with birth parents to seek adoption by their present foster parents or placement in a suitable alternative adoptive home. Provides information about post-adoption services.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.