* Provides adoption and foster care services for special needs children. National photo listing of adoptable special needs children. The CAP Book. Information on adoption and foster care. Parent recruitment for children awaiting adoption. Volunteer opportunities.

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 pregnancy counseling services and adoption services for domestic, international and older special needs children

Provides both long- and short-term services for youth unable to be cared for by their birth families or legal guardians. Recruits and trains prospective foster parents.

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 services for pregnant women and pregnant teens. Assists with connection to community services. WIC, baby clothes and items, prenatal care. * Offers supportive counseling regarding crisis pregnancy issues including unplanned pregnancy and adoption.

Responsible for comprehensive services to foster children, adoptees, biological parents, foster, and adoptive parents.

Program is in three sections: 1. Program provides independent living skills training for those who are in foster care and those who have aged out of foster care (ex: how to start and keep a bank account). 2. Provides adoptive parent support. Works to help families in the midst of adoption and that have adopted. 3. Working to build a database for kinship care contacts.

Provides seamless services for foster families and adoptive families of children 0-21 years old, including initial training, certification for foster parents, on-going training, permanency planning, therapeutic support, 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 are provided by on-staff drivers/transporters, skills builders, and nurses who provide 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. The following additional services are provided for foster and adoptive families being served by GA Family Services: - Post-Adoption Services through OCFS-funded program - Regional Permanency Center for all families with at least one adoptive or guardianship child in the home - Children's Health Home services for qualifying youth ages 0-21 - Year-round after-school program for Chautauqua County - Accountability & Responsibility Program for youth ages 13-21 - Family Time Visitation Program for Chautauqua County youth and families to have meaningful time together in the home and community - Pathways Supervised Visitation Program, which provides a safe environment for supervised visits with a court order in Erie County

Provides child and family programs including includes the Adult Protective Services (APS), Child Protective Services (CPS), Preventive Services, Foster Care, Adoption, and Juvenile Services units. Adult Protective Services provides protective and preventive services to adults 18 years of age and older where there is an inability to act on their own behalf with the aim of ensuring self-determination, and the ability to live as safely and independently as possible in the community. Child Protective Services role is to investigate, intervene and support family and caregivers ability to safely care for their children where there are allegations of abuse and maltreatment of children. Preventive Services works in the homes at-risk children providing supportive and rehabilitative services that are trauma-informed, solution-focused, child centered, and strength based to prevent out-of-home placement and to assist families to return their children from foster care at an earlier time, while foster care offers children a safe living environment while assistance is offered to families and caregivers. Juvenile Services Team is a community-collaboration aimed at preventing out of home placement and institutional care for juveniles and adolescents and reducing the likelihood of contact with the criminal justice system.

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.

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 one-on-one support, training, information, referrals, advocacy, education, and parent support groups for adoptive or guardianship parents.

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.

Licensed therapists provide individual and family therapy for children and adolescents. Provides medication therapy as needed in conjunction with individual and family therapy. Specialties include depression, anxiety, anger issues, eating disorders, gambling, family conflict, school problems, issues related to divorce, adoption, grief and loss, and LGBT issues.

Provides the following: - Preventive services to families to assist with budgeting, discipline, parenting, etc. - Foster care services for children placed in foster care - Adoption services for families looking to adopt

Assesses the needs and capabilities of children who have been relinquished for adoption, compiles the children's social and medical histories, makes arrangements for care and supervision of the children prior to placement, evaluates prospective adoptive applicants including a review of adoptive home studies, if available, and selects and approves prospective adoptive homes. Also identifies and enlists individuals and couples who are willing to provide permanent homes and new legal parentage for children who have been relinquished for adoption, particularly for children who have special needs. Responsible for training, certifying, and monitoring placements in family homes and for providing support for the family and the adopted individual(s) who live with them. Links individuals who are in need of alternative living arrangements with appropriate private family homes that are licensed to provide foster care. Identifies and enlists people who are willing to provide foster care for dependent children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment and need an alternative family living arrangement, or for children and adults with developmental disabilities, sensory impairments, physical disabilities, emotional problems, or multiple disabilities who are unable to live with their birth families or in an independent setting.

Completes home studies to qualify families for adopting internationally.

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.

Information and services to: those wanting to place a child: counseling, supportive counseling, free attorney consultation, open adoption choices (choosing adoptive parents), post-adoption contact with pictures, letters and visits. families seeking to adopt and looking at all options (domestic infant and older children, international adoption): free, private one-on-one adoption consultation. couples or individuals seeking a to adopt an infant (domestic or international): free, private one-on-one consultation on options; pre-adoption education and counseling, home study preparation for adoption, post-adoption support and supervision services, referrals to professionals understanding adoption issues.

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 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.