View Search Results

Provides detailed information about adoptions and New York State's foster care system and the needs of children in temporary out-of-home placement. Helps interested individuals go through the fostering or adoption process and provides information and supports for families with foster or adopted children in the home.

Assists children who are unable to live with their birth parents or relatives, or might otherwise be in residential placements. Provides training and support for individuals for individuals interested in caring for a foster child.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Provide 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.

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.

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.

Provides temporary care to children who are unable to remain with their family. Caseworkers provide the services and support necessary to reunite the family. If a child cannot safely to return to their family, the agency works to develop a permanent plan for the child.

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.

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.

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.

Offers foster care recruitment and placement for individuals, couples or families interested in foster care. Pre-service parenting classes are provided inorder to better prepare foster parents with issues such as abuse and neglect, abandonment, discipline, etc. Also offers additional support to those who become foster parents.

Provides services focused on permanency for children through reunification or adoption, and advocates for each child's needs. Serves children of all backgrounds and ages, providing care from infancy through age 21. Every effort is made to place each child or group of siblings with the most appropriate foster family based on their family dynamics and unique strengths. Works throughout communities large and small to develop a diverse team of qualified foster parents. Foster care home-finding staff consists of current and/or former foster parents who recruit, train, and assist families in navigating the pre-certification process. In addition to a home-finder staff liaison, each family is provided with a caseworker who is available for ongoing support 24 hours a day. Through regular communication and quarterly home visits post-certification, staff offer guidance and resources necessary for success. Foster parents are provided a variety of training including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention and Solution Focused Trauma Informed Care, not only during their certification process, but throughout their time as foster parents with Gateway Longview. Therapeutic foster care services provide a family environment with intensive support services to children and youth when it is assessed that the birth family and/or other service programs cannot provide the individual care required to meet the child's needs. All services are coordinated pursuant to the earliest return of the child to its birth family.

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.

Places children who are currently in the custody of the Commissioner of Social Services into family foster homes, group homes, or licensed child care institutions and provides for room and board, clothing, medical care and other special needs.

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.

Recruits, trains, and supports foster parents. 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.

Works to preserve families by finding temporary homes for children. We help birth and foster parents develop skills to nurture children in safe, loving home environments. 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.