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Collaborates with community agencies and service providers to support families based on their cultural and individual strengths and needs to provide preventive and foster care services. Provides child welfare program, adoption services, preventive services, and foster care resulting from voluntary or court placement. Preventive services are supports and assistance to help a family learn skills (such as coping skills, parenting skills, budgeting skills, anger management, etc.) that will prevent a child from being abused and therefore removed from the home.

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Adoption Services
Foster Home Placement
Child Abuse Prevention
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Family Preservation Programs
Provides therapeutic placement services to youth. A treatment team works with youth and families on goals while they are in placement. Customized services work with youth and families to improve coping skills and prevent placement out of the home, and help improve family functioning. Services are tailored according to the needs of the family and may include family work, skill building support, and educational support.

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Family Preservation Programs
Foster Home Placement
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Provides child and family programs including preventive and protective services to children, foster care, adoption, and youth services.

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Child Abuse Prevention
Children's Protective Services
Foster Home Placement
Adoption Services
Provides seamless services for foster families and adoptive families of children 0-21 years old, including initial training, certification for foster parents, ongoing training, permanency planning, therapeutic support, residential care, 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 provided by on-staff driver/transporter, skills builder, and nurse, who provides 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.

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Foster Parent / Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Adoption Services
Foster Home Placement
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive homes and works to place children with adoptive families.

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Adoptive Family Recruitment
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement

Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) is a research-informed, multi-tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships. We work with children and teens who need high levels of support due to trauma they have experienced in their homes or communities. Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents and a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth is developed. Our foster parents are provided enhanced trauma-informed training, and wraparound services to ensure the placement is secure until permanency is achieved.

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Foster Home Placement
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Professional staff and trained volunteers monitor permanency plans for foster children and families involved in family court system. Cases assigned by Family Court Judges as needed.

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Issue Advocacy
Guardians ad Litem Volunteer Opportunities
Child Advocacy Centers
Advocacy/Ombudsman Volunteer Opportunities
Foster Home Placement
Individual Advocacy
* Facilitates foster care services in Monroe County through various specialized units, including foster care intake, child protective management, youth opportunity, residential services, and adoption and homefinding.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
Adoptive Family Recruitment
Provides a residential placement program for hard-to-place youth who cannot stay at home but do not do well in group settings. Placements partner at-risk youth with highly trained foster parents and a team of clinical professionals. Offers 24/7 support for foster parents, assistance with organizing childcare and after-school services, and foster parent support groups.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Home Placement
Serves children who need an out-of-home placement from birth to age 21 with all levels of behavioral needs.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
Provides support to youth coming from refugee camps or fleeing dangerous conditions in their home country.

Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) is a research-informed, multi-tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships. We work with children and teens who need high levels of support due to trauma they have experienced in their homes or communities. Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents and a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth is developed. Our foster parents are provided enhanced trauma-informed training, and wraparound services to ensure the placement is secure until permanency is achieved.

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Foster Home Placement
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
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.

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Permanency Planning for Foster Youth
Case/Care Management
Preadoptive Foster Care
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
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.

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Permanency Planning for Foster Youth
Case/Care Management
Preadoptive Foster Care
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) is a research-informed, multi-tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships. We work with children and teens who need high levels of support due to trauma they have experienced in their homes or communities. Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents and a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth is developed. Our foster parents are provided enhanced trauma-informed training, and wraparound services to ensure the placement is secure until permanency is achieved.

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Foster Home Placement
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Care: safe, temporary placement for children unable to safely live with their own families with goal of returning children to their homes. If needed, a permanency plan can free the child for adoption, independent living or discharge to an adult residential setting.Preventive Services: after referral, conducts needs assessment, creates service plan and makes referrals to community agencies. Workers provide casework counseling, transport, mediation, crisis intervention and, sometimes, financial management.
Assesses the need, arranging, and providing for placement and related services to children in an appropriate foster care setting. The Foster Care Homefinding Unit is responsible for securing placements in foster homes for children who are in the custody of the department and recruiting and training new foster and adoptive parents.

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Foster Parent / Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
Provides a safe residential site for children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned.
Places children who are currently in the custody of the Commissioner of Social Services into family foster homes, group homes, or licensed child care institutions and provides for room and board, clothing, medical care and other special needs.

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Group Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Parents
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent / Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Offers diagnostic and emergency placement for sibling groups removed from their homes or in the process of placement transition. The program can accommodate 12 children and offers a 24 hour professionally supervised environment. The program provides crisis and preventive respite services for youth and their siblings. Referrals must come from Nassau or Suffolk County Departments of Social Services as well as the Mental Health Crisis Respite Bed System.

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Homeless Shelter
Foster Home Placement
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Placement in therapeutic foster homes with specially trained therapeutic foster parents. Services include weekly home visits by the assigned caseworker, respite care services, and health care services provided by an on-site-nurse. Additionally the youth receive individual, group and family therapy through the Out-Patient Chemical Dependency Clinic. Placements can be arranged for long term or short term depending on the family's needs.

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Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Home Placement
Provides a safe residential site for children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned.
Provides local alternative for counties needing to place children at a higher level of care that a county-level foster home can provide. Therapeutic foster homes specialize in the care of children with psychologically, social, emotional and behavioral health care needs who can respond in close relationships within a family setting and whose special needs require more intense or therapeutic services. Also recruits and trains individuals and families to act as foster parents to children in need of out of home care.

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Transitional Case / Care Management
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Former Foster Children
Foster Parent / Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Home Placement
Provides 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.

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Adoption Information / Referrals
Foster Home Placement
Adoption Evaluation / Placement
Adoption Counseling and Support
Foster Parent / Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Provides 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.

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Foster Parent / Family Recruitment
Adoption Counseling and Support
Adoption Information / Referrals
Adoption Evaluation / Placement
Foster Home Placement