Provides information on adoption, home studies, adoptive parent training, and placement of American-born infants.

Offers self-administered pregnancy tests and referral for onsite ultrasound, counseling and emotional support, advocacy and support to pregnant women; mentoring programs for expectant moms, happy parents, and healthy relationships; provision of maternity and baby clothes; baby supplies; adoption referrals and parenting mentoring. Post-abortion care.

* 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.

* Provides post-adoption and family support services to adoptive families or families who have been granted legal guardianship of a child. Includes: Information and assistance with referral to services, including 24/7 crisis management. Individual advocacy and support. Monthly support groups and family-focused social/recreational programs. Parent education groups, trauma-informed trainings, and family-oriented workshops. Provided in community locations including libraries, community recreation centers, and other family-friendly sites. Adoption competency training for parents and professionals. Will meet with families in the community, in their homes, and at Hillside locations.

Provides guidance and support to couples and singles in selecting, developing, and implementing individualized, domestic or international adoption plans. Services include consultations, home studies, workshops, annual conference, support groups and newsletters. Also offers special programs serving families in the Jewish community.

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.

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.

Pride and Joy Families is dedicated to helping lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in Upstate New York achieve their goals of building and sustaining healthy families. Resources available to LGBTQ adults looking to build either traditional or chosen families, LGBTQ youth, and parents of LGBTQ youth. Offerrs LGBTQ cultural competency trainings to healthcare and human service providers in Central New York.

Provides for all aspects of adoption process: preparing children for adoption; selection and placement in appropriate adoptive homes; recruitment and certification of adoptive parents.

Provides evaluation and placement for individuals or couples interested in adopting a child, along with counseling and support for those going through this process.

Promoting the well-being and safety of children, families and communities.

Provides individualized support, adoption information and referral resources to individuals thinking about placing their own child up for adoption.

Provides training to individuals interested in applying for certification as foster and adoptive parents to prepare to either adopt or foster children that are in the custody of the Commissioner. Places and monitors children that have been placed outside the birth family in licensed foster care homes. Responsible for strengthening and preserving families and ensuring the protection and permanency for children. Placement of children into foster homes occurs in situations of neglect and/or abuse or if the child has been adjucated as a Juvenile Delinquent (JD). Placement only occurs when no other alternatives are possible. The Children and Family Services (FS) collaborates with all DSS divisions, community and state agencies to ensure that children are safe and that families are independent.

Provides individualized support, adoption information and referral resources to individuals thinking about placing their own child up for adoption.

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.

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.

Prevents homelessness through finding homes for teens and pre-teens. Certify pre-adoptive parents through A-OKAY (Adopting Older Kids and Youth) parenting classes. Provides an Adopting Teens and Tweens TV show on channel 20 Cablevision of Brookhaven. Call for more information.

To prevent post adoption dissolution or disruption via support groups, children respite program, education program, home visiting and advocacy.

Offers guidance and assistance throughout the process of adoption of children from the Russian Federation and from Romania. Services include group and individual orientation meetings, and assistance in preparation of documentation for State of New York, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the foreign government adoption authorities. Parental support groups are available.

Provides a full service adoption agency that offers recruitment, orientation, and training of families for waiting children, intensified placement services, crisis intervention, post adoption services, pregnancy outreach and counseling, infant adoptions, community education on child welfare issues, advocacy, and staff trainings. Call for more information.

Provides counseling and affiliated services to pregnant unwed parents adoption services and placement for adoptive families and placing parents support and enrichment services to families including counseling for adoptees, adoptive families and birth parents community cultural and educational outreach services. Information provided upon telephone or written request.

Provides support and information to people who are experiencing infertility and increases awareness of infertility issues through public education and advocacy.

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.

Unites adoptive and foster parent groups, concerned agencies and individuals throughout the empire state. Represents the families' viewpoint and works to improve and expand the services available to children and families. By fostering communication and collaboration between families, agencies and concerned citizens, seeks to ensure the stability, well-being and permanency of all children touched by the child welfare system. Offers a statewide free Helpline designed specifically to assist foster, adoptive and kinship families, related professionals and those wanting to foster or become parents. Also supports and coordinates volunteer and agency-led parent support groups for foster, adoptive and kinship parents throughout the United States. Offers support to foster and kinship families including the Family Allegation Support Team, Family Court Education and Support, Ombudsmen and more post adoption support services. The Coalition advocacy focuses on issues that need system-wide attention through legislative and administrative advocacy.

Provides confidential pregnancy option counseling and support before, during, and after birth; referrals for medical, financial, and emotional assistance; identifying and helping select adoptive parents, arranging legally approved payments of pregnancy related expenses. Confidential referral and counseling to adopted child at any age; referral and assistance search for birth parents when appropriate. Confidential counseling, education, and support to adoptive parents; pre-placement home study; assistance in advertising for, networking, and locating birth parents.