Sometimes, our hearts have bigger ideas than our calendars can handle. Foster care requires a significant time commitment, but not everyone who wants to help has room in their schedules. Work, family, and friends all need time, too, and sometimes that doesn’t leave room for being a foster parent. If you want to help the foster care community but can’t commit to being a full-time foster parent, there are plenty of other ways you can help out!
How to Contribute to the Foster Care Community
Homemaker Services
Not all of the services offered by FCCY in PA require a full-time commitment. One of these services is our homemaker services. This is a program where families are paired with a mentor from the community who can model good parenting, how to be a good provider and a good citizen in the community as a whole. This program can help reduce the need for future placements by strengthing the bonds between children and their parents and showing them how to work together to create a safe and happy family unit. Our homemakers get training and support to identify the needs of the family and how best to support them.
Respite Care
Not all foster care is full time! Some kids just need a break from their biological or legal family. It might occur over a holiday or be due to a current situation happening within the household. These placements are short-term but offer you the chance to provide a safe, stable, and loving environment for a foster child who just needs a break and a safe place to stay with a family who cares for them. This can give them safe options in the future if they need them, too. Sometimes just knowing you have a safe place to go when you need it can be a huge help to the foster kids in our system.
Make a Donation
Finally, non-profit donations are always welcome. We operate as a non-profit organization in PA and we’re dedicated to providing a full spectrum of care for foster children and their families in the PA area. In order to reach our goals, we’re constantly fundraising and writing grants that can help us provide a consistent high-quality of care and service. If you can’t donate your time to FCCY, help us meet the needs of children in the PA area with a monetary donation. You can donate through our website, and your money will go towards medical care, recreational activities, and educational costs for the foster children in our system.
Contact Us For Other Ways to Help
If you are looking for other ways to help our non-profit organization in PA, get in touch with our team today. We can go over our list of services and let you know what our current needs are, especially with the upcoming holiday season. Give us a call or contact us through our website today for more information about making a donation or donating your time to our organization.
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The mission of Family Care for Children & Youth, Inc. is to be the best social service agency committed to providing an excellent standard of care and culturally competent services while communicating compassion, empathy, and hope for the future.
OUR HAPPY FAMILIES SAY IT ALL
Check out our success stories below
"THEY CARE ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND ARE VERY THOROUGH"
My husband and I always tell people that talk to us about wanting to foster or adopt about our agency. We enjoy working with this agency because the staff not only care about the careful placement of a child but also about us as a family. Our agency is available and quick to respond to us whether we have an emergency or just a question. They care about the children and are very thorough to ensure the children and the foster family are getting what they need.
Alice Cedrone
"WE ENJOY GIVING BACK"
Fostering is very positive experience not only for ourselves but also for the child’s well-being. We enjoy giving back. Providing a loving, nurturing home to a child gives the child an opportunity to have a normal childhood as possible.
Millie Flores
"WE WOULD RECOMMEND FCCY"
Picking FCCY to work with has been the best thing my husband and I could have done. We have had only positive experiences with this agency. The case managers are so good and give you total support as a foster parent. We would recommend FCCY to others looking into foster care.
P. Kyler