Making Worlds Whole for Children,
Youths, Families and Individuals

From foster care and adoption to community-based and adult day services...from family and individual counseling to specialized services for at-risk youths...the programs of Diakon Child, Family & Community Ministries touch the lives of thousands of people of all ages, making their worlds whole again.

Diakon Adoption & Foster Care

Diakon Adoption & Foster Care brings permanency to the lives of children and youths. From special-needs to multiple levels of foster care and legal-risk placements (foster-to-adopt), we focus on uniting children with forever families.

Diakon Family Life Services

Diakon Family Life Services offers compassionate counseling, family-based mental-health services, addictions counseling, school-based services, and such specialized programs as SPIN, designed to assist children and youths who have experienced problematic sexual behaviors.

Diakon Pregnancy Services

If you are an expectant mother seeking guidance about your pregnancy, Diakon Pregnancy Services can help through free supportive counseling to address concerns.

Diakon Youth Services

Serving at-risk youths and young adults, Diakon Youth Services offers a range of community- and wilderness-based programs that guide young people back.

Diakon Volunteers Serving Seniors

In Berks and Schuylkill counties, the Diakon Volunteers Serving Seniors program provides transportation and related services to help older adults continue to live in their own homes.

Family Reunification & Preservation

These intensive programs, currently serving Bucks County, Pa., are designed to bring families back together and prevent further out-of-home child placements.

Girls on the Run©

Part of an international organization, Girls on the Run of Lehigh Valley is a transformational, physical activity-based youth development program for girls in third through eighth grades.

Diakon Adult Day Services

From locations in Hagerstown, Md., and Pottstown, Pa., Diakon Adult Day Services provides daytime care to older adults, allowing them to continue to live at home or with family.

Diakon Community Services

Access programs from meals on wheels and adult day care to senior centers—with and without walls—and much more.

Lutheran Disaster Response

Diakon serves as the primary Lutheran Church-affiliated organization for disaster response in the Delaware-Maryland and Lower and Upper Susquehanna regions of the church; it responds as needed elsewhere.

Diakon Spring Appeal

Diakon Easter Appeal - Helping Your Neighbors In Need

Your gift is urgently needed to help our older neighbors receive the help they need to age in place with grace and dignity. Please click through to make your most generous gift now. Thank you!

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