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Out of Home Services
Adoption Services
Community Homes
DHS College Program
Family Foster Care
Group Homes
Residential Treatment
Supervised Independent Living
Transitional Housing Program
Treatment Foster Care
Adoption Services
As a Statewide Adoption Network affiliate,
CVCA seeks to help special needs children
within the foster care system in Southeastern
Pennsylvania find a permanent home through
adoption. CVCA partners with each family to
complete a family profile, match them with a
special needs child or children and facilitate the
adoption process. CVCA offers support in the
form of counseling and education to both the
families and children throughout the process.
Community Homes
Created as an alternative to residential treatment,
for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children
and adolescents, CVCA Community Homes provide
a home-like setting to no more than four young people
per home. The program serves children ages 5 to 17
who have experienced multiple foster home placements
and who present problems too difficult to
manage in a traditional foster home. The primary
goal of the program is to assist all young residents in
gaining the social, emotional and life skills needed
to succeed at living productively in the community.
Experienced and caring social workers work with each
young person and their family to address and resolve
the issues that brought them into the Community
Homes Program. The goal is for the young residents to
successfully transition home, to another less restrictive
community-based setting, or to independent living.
DHS College Program
Is designed to assist older youth, ages 17 to 21,
who are in college after leaving foster care or
residential treatment. Program staff members provide
emotional and concrete support and assistance. Each
student receives a monthly stipend and quarterly
clothing allowance. The program helps arrange
places for students to stay during school breaks and
occasionally helps with educational expenses. The
primary goal is for the young people
to successfully complete college
and make a successful transition
to independent adulthood.
Family Foster Care
Provides safe and supportive homes to children
who are separated from their birth family by the child
welfare system. Professional foster parents provide a
home for children who have experienced abuse and/or
neglect. Social workers work with the children, the
foster families and the birth families to ensure each
child’s needs are being met, to support the foster
parents in their efforts to parent unfamiliar children,
and assist birth families with making the changes
necessary to allow children to return home. Throughout
this process alternate plans, which may be
adoption, permanent legal custodianship, placement
with a relative, or emancipation, are also developed
in case birth families are unable or unwilling to make
the necessary changes. The goal is for each child to
successfully transition home or, when this is not
possible, to another more permanent family situation.
Group Homes
Designed to provide a secure therapeutic
transitional living experience for adolescents who
have been adjudicated dependent or delinquent.
Group Homes offer a safe supportive environment for
young people who cannot stay at home due to family
fragmentation, serious abuse or neglect or severe
parent-child conflict. The program helps the young
people and their family work towards reunification
whenever possible while also providing them with
concrete skills and resources that will help them
work towards independent living. The goal is for the
young residents to successfully transition home, to
another less restrictive community-based setting or to
independent living.
Residential Treatment
Five historic cottages at the Flourtown
Neighborhood Center provide a home to 90 youth
from Southeastern Pennsylvania. They are young
people who have emotional and social difficulties
often as a result of abuse and severe neglect.
While living at CVCA, they receive special
education and therapeutic intervention in a
caring and nurturing environment. The young
people live in home-like cottages with staff
members who provide 24-hour care and support.
Experienced and caring social workers work
with each young person and their family to
address and resolve the issues that brought them
into residential treatment. The goal is for the
young residents to successfully transition home
or to another community-based setting.
Supervised Independent Living
Is designed to assist older youth, ages 17 to
21, who are residing in the Greater Philadelphia
area while also attending an educational or
vocational program, with transitioning to independence
from foster care or residential treatment
by providing guided daily living experiences in
the community. Youth live in CVCA rented
apartments in the community and are taught how
to maintain an apartment, find and hold a job,
shop and prepare nutritious meals, budget and
use community resources effectively. The goal
is for the young people to make a successful
transition to independent adulthood.
Transitional Housing Program
Serves older homeless youth, from ages
16 to 21, who are Philadelphia residents.
Youth are former clients of the child welfare
system who have aged out of foster care or
other residential placements and have
become homeless when their discharge plans
do not succeed. The program provides
short-term housing for both parenting and
non-parenting youth in homes leased by
the agency. The program is designed to
assist homeless youth with transitioning to
successful independence by providing guided
daily living experiences in the community.
The goal is for the young adults to make a
successful transition into permanent housing.
Treatment Foster Care
Provides a safe and temporary home
for children who are separated from their
birth family by the child welfare system
and who also require specialized emotional
and/or behavioral support. Children and
adolescents with special needs are placed
in the homes of specially trained, highly
skilled treatment foster parents, where a
professionally developed and supervised
treatment plan is implemented daily.
Experienced and caring social workers work
with each young person and their family to
address and resolve the issues that brought
them into treatment foster care. The goal
is for the young people to successfully
transition home or to another less restrictive
community-based setting.
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