The Empower program provides services to youth in foster care that are at risk of, or have been victims of exploitation and/or complex sexual trauma that require residential and supportive services. The program accepts adolescent girls and transgender youth ages 11-21.

Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is a program funded by a grant from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a national non-profit public charity that brings children waiting in foster care one-step closer to being adopted into safe, loving and permanent homes. Our WWK program provides child-focused adoption recruiters that work in Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan counties in New York.

Provides the information and guidance to eligible individuals and couples who are interested in foster care or adoption. Also provides the placement of children who can no longer stay with their parents.

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

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 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.

Recruits, trains, and supports foster parents, including those providing therapeutic foster care. - Works with kinship homes, traditional two parent homes, single parent homes, same-sex couples, and racially diverse homes. - Offers 24-hour emergency support. - Offers monitored visitation with birth family. - Offers support from Licensed Social Worker and Mental Health professionals as well as case managers. - Offers support groups and training to Foster Parents as well as respite (babysitting) if needed and assistance in all areas of care. - Provides psychiatric services when needed. - Practices "Normative Culture" which is based on all team members (foster families included) valuing and exhibiting four norms: Respect, Responsibility, Goal Directed Behaviors, and Safety (both emotional and physical). - Provides practice and training in trauma informed and trauma sensitive environments and approaches.

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.

Provides services for children in need of a temporary home until their parents gain enough stability in their lives to have them returned. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is strictly adhered to.

Recruits, trains, and supports foster parents. Provides services for children in need of a temporary home until their parents gain enough stability in their lives to have them returned. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is strictly adhered to.

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.

Provides a temporary family living situation during the time that a child's family is unable to care for them or while they await permanent placement.

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

Offers foster care recruitment and placement for individuals, couples or families interested in foster care. Pre-service parenting classes are provided inorder to better prepare foster parents with issues such as abuse and neglect, abandonment, discipline, etc. Also offers additional support to those who become foster parents.

* 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 foster care services. Temporary placement for children at-risk. Foster parent recruitment. Foster parent training and certification. * Offers adoption services. Certification of prospective adoptive families. Places children in DSS foster care with adoptive families.

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 placement of children (birth-18 yrs) and provision of support services for family and child when child assessed and determined to be in need of out-of-home Foster care. Provides Foster Home Licensing.

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 emergency placement of abused or neglected children and access to foster care if required. Services for families in crisis to avoid the need for foster care placement through Child Protective Services.* Investigates abuse, exploitation, and neglect (by self or caretakers) for adults through Adult Protective Services.

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.

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.