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Diakon Adoption &
Foster Care offers multiple levels of foster care, including traditional,
treatment, specialized, foster-to-adopt, and kinship care, at its
Pennsylvania offices. Typically, children and youths served in these
programs are referred by county children and youth services or juvenile
probation offices.
Foster families are always
needed to bring love and stability to the lives of children waiting
in foster care. Our program focuses on providing the best long-term
solution for each child or youth referred to us. And whether preparing
a child or youth for independence, a successful return to his or
her birth family or other relatives, or for adoption, we offer an
array of services to meet varying needs.
Designed to meet both short- and long-term goals for young people
in transition, our tiered levels of foster care allow us to tailor
service to unique needs. Levels of foster care vary based on intensity
of service, casemanagement, and related services. However, all Diakon
foster care programs emphasize the availability of a continuum of
services, with a focus on providing the highest quality of care.
Features include:
- Loving, nurturing homes with well-trained resource families
selected to meet the special emotional and behavioral needs of
each child. These families are dually certified and meet or exceed
the latest training requirements for both adoption and foster
care placements.
- Well-trained, committed case-management staff of both bachelor’s
and master’s degree levels, assuring the highest support
for youths, families, and referring agencies.
- Staff members on call 24 hours a day.
- Counseling and treatment services promoting both emotional well-being
and a speedy transition to permanency.
- Links to other Diakon youth programs, including “step-up”
services offered through our wilderness-based youth center, and
home-based and specialized outpatient counseling services where
offered.
- Emergency foster care placements.
A hallmark of our program
is our focus on serving youths as close to home as possible. And
even if the planned outcome of service is not a return home, we
become as involved with the birth family as circumstances permit.
Services are offered to dependent and delinquent children and youths
from birth through the age of 18. Youths are considered for placement
in based on need and the appropriateness of our services to meet
those needs.
County agencies interested in referring
children or youths for any level of foster care should visit our
Diakon YouthCare Services Web site.
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