May is both Mental Health Awareness Month and Foster Care Awareness Month—two causes that are deeply connected.
Continue reading >While many families are filling backpacks and picking out first-day outfits, our ELECT program is preparing pregnant and parenting teens for a school year that looks a little different. These young parents are working hard to earn their diplomas while also caring for their children — and ELECT is here to help them succeed at both.
Continue reading >Our programs have been up to great work this spring!
Continue reading >“Champions don’t show up to get everything they want; they show up to give everything they have” -Alexander den Heijer
Continue reading >March is National Social Work Month, a time to celebrate the great profession of social work! The theme for Social Work Month 2025 is Social Work: Compassion + Action.
Continue reading >This month, we’re shining a light on a program that often works quietly in the background but plays a vital role in the lives of foster youth—it’s called our Family Finding Program.
Continue reading >In Philadelphia, there are about 3,100 children and youth in foster care at any given time. Children enter foster care because of child abuse, neglect or special family circumstances requiring that the child receive out-of-home care. Foster care services are intended to provide temporary care for a child until he or she is reunited with their biological family or until another permanent living situation is found.
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