Helps families stay together and avoid out-of-home placement of children with emotional and behavioral challenges. Family, child, family support representative and representatives from other agencies meet to review family situation, develop and implement service plan and track family's progress during a three- to six-month period.

* Investigates allegations of child abuse and neglect received by NYS Central Registry of Abuse and Maltreatment. Services may include: Foster care placement for abused or neglected children. Preventive Services for families in crisis to avoid foster care placement. Casework/referral services. Family preservation & support programs. JD & PINS programs. Foster parent recruitment. Foster parent training and certification. Certification of adoptive families for children in foster care. Adult Protective services works with individuals 18 years and older, with physical and/or mental impairments, and no support system to help meet basic needs. On call caseworker for after hours emergencies.

Provides an intensive, home-based program designed to reduce out-of-home placement for the most at-risk youth and families. Services include counseling, respite services, mentoring, community supervision, recreation, school and community advocacy, psychiatric and psychological services, and linkage to other community support and programs.

Provides in-home instructional services to families who children are at risk for foster care placement or as part of family reunification planning. Focus is on parenting skills, home and money management, conflict resolution, behavior management and negotiating the social service system.

* Helps families with children who are returning from or are at imminent risk of placement in out-of-home care by offering a short-term intervention to these families meant to achieve stabilization.

Works with Oswego County families who have youth at risk for possible placement due to issues related to PINS or JD behaviors. Offers casework services to assist families in identifying issues that place children at risk and developing goals to address those concerns. Provides both home-based and school-based counseling services, crisis intervention, advocacy, and referral to other support services in the community.

Provides support services to families with children at risk for out-of-home placement due to child abuse, neglect, or returning home from residential treatment. Services include home visits, helping families in strengthening skills and creating positive parent-child relations.

Provides services which can help prevent families who have had or are at risk of having their children placed in foster care. Families receive support for stress related issues, such as case management, daycare services, homemaker services, parenting aides, transportation, recreational services, and more.

Provides home based parent education and supportive counseling to families who are referred by the Ulster County Department of Social Services. The primary purpose of the program is to prevent child abuse and neglect, and to prevent an out-of-home placement for the children.

A program for low income families, whose children are in placement or at risk of placement outside the family, and offers a multi-team approach of intensive intervention services, including workshops and parent support groups.

Provides assistance to the low income community and to the community at large in organizing issues which affect the community such as housing, education, employment opportunities, drugs and youth violence. Call for more information. Also offers Youth Council, Summer Youth Program, Youth Soccer Program, Senior Citizen Program and Immigration Assistance.

Offers Concrete services (i.e.: day care, homemaking, budgeting, advocacy, etc.), casework counseling, and referral services are provided to eligible families in order to avert placements of children outside their homes, enhance family functioning and/or expedite reunification of children in care with their biological families. Eligible families include those at some risk of foster care and pregnant and/or parenting adolescents. Referrals to preventive services can be made by calling 516-227-7789. Also offered is PINS Diversion Program - Services are provided through contract agencies, to families in crisis whose children might be experiencing truancy, gang involvement, running away from home, and substance abuse issues or other unmanageable behaviors in order to prevent/avert the filing of a Pins Petition and placement out of the home. PINS Information and Intake can be reached at 516-227-8404. Call for detailed information regarding services and programs offered.

Provides in-home and community care coordination services to at risk youth and families with a clinical and family preservation focus.

Provides supervision as well as services to youth adjudicated by Family Court and their families.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Provides services which can help prevent families who have had or are at risk of having their children placed in foster care. Families receive support for stress related issues, such as case management, daycare services, homemaker services, parenting aides, transportation, recreational services, and more.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Provides a brief intensive therapy program designed for families with teens who are at risk of out-of-home placement to solve specific issues, and to work together on the strengths and challenges within the family.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Offers a range of intensive mobile services such as individual and family counseling, psychiatric consultations, crisis intervention and prevention, recreation, respite, parent education and training, tutoring, mentoring, case management, and vocational opportunities.

Supports families by providing services and resources needed to strengthen the family unit, enable families to remain intact, and avoid unnecessary placement of children in foster care.

* Provides services and programs to the residents of the area served including: College Bound - program for high school-aged youth to support and encourage applying to and attending college. Community Outreach - Information and referral program to services that assist in achieving self-sufficiency. Childhood counseling and Intervention program Family preservation program - Improves family and school functioning to prevent out-of-home placement for at-risk youth. Individual, couple, family, and group counseling Healthy Relationships of the Finger Lakes - offers programs for young couples, parents, and other family members designed to build strong relationships and improve parenting skills.

Provides support and assistance for individuals at risk of losing custody of their child, have lost custody of their child, or are in need of parental support.

Assists families in reducing children's risk of foster care placement and provide supports necessary to reunify or develop an alternate permanency plan for children when out of home placement becomes necessary.

Provides youth and their families with intensive support in the home, school, and community. Services include case management, crisis intervention services, and skill development.