PENNSYLVANIA FOSTER CARE BLOG

What is a non profit organization?

Family Care for Children and Youth is a private, non profit social service agency providing foster care and adoption services to children in Pennsylvania. If you’ve browsed our website, then you already know this about us, but can you say with confidence what a non profit organization is? Most of us have heard the term…

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Three Good Reasons To Adopt a Child in Need

Have you and your partner considered adopting a child? This is an option open to families who are willing to accept children in need into their homes. Some children are unwanted or cannot return to their biological families. Adoption is not ideal for every family or every child, but when it’s right, it provides loving,…

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6 Ways Foster Care Families Add Value

Foster care is a selfless act. You sacrifice your own priorities to put a child in need first. These children are not your average-joe children either. These children have faced troubles that no child should face and are now in need of some love and care. Foster families add value to the lives of these…

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Your Non-Profit Donation Can Provide Dental Care For Foster Children In PA

One of the many areas your non-profit donation to FCCY can provide assistance is funding dental care for a child in foster care. Dental care is essential to the overall health of a child. With your gracious donation, our foster care children will experience this care… Routine Check-Ups No matter the age of the child…

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The Changes In PA Foster Care Over The Past Decade

The life of an abused or neglected child is not one to envy. It is one that needs care and nourishment. These children need stability, supervision, and support. Gratefully, the good people of Pennsylvania recognize the necessity to care for children who cannot be cared for by his or her own parents. Foster care rates…

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Non-Profit Donations According To The IRS

Did you know if you donate money to Foster Care for Children and Youth, then you can write the non-profit donation as a tax deduction for a charitable contribution? The national U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has specific distinctions for qualifiable donations and a certain process to follow for donating and claiming those donations on…

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Thank You Foster Care Families In PA

Foster care in the United States is very important. There are many children that are faced with troubling family lives, which is why we make it our life’s mission to ensure these children are cared for and loved. The children are always our main focus, but we care deeply about the family they enter as…

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Specialized Foster Family Care in PA

Foster care is the service and care for children who do not have the emotional or financial support of their birth family. They are taken under the wing of a supportive family for a period of time. Family Care for Children and Youth is an agency that specializes in foster care for children in PA….

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What Is The Difference Between Foster Care And Adoption?

Adoption and foster care are both a means to support children that are in need. Unfortunately, there are many children in Pennsylvania, the United States, and around the world that do not have strong family or monetary foundations. Despite the reason for needing help, these children are welcomed at Family Care for Children and Youth…

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Golfing “Fore The Kids” Non-Profit Fundraiser

Bright and early on the morning of Friday the 25th of September, we will rise, grab our golf clubs and our checkbooks, and head to Wynding Brook Golf Club to play a fundraising golf game Fore The Kids. We are Family Care for Children and Youth, and we love to golf for the foster children…

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