Foster Care

Volunteers of America’s Foster Care program provides homes for children and adolescents who are temporarily not able to live with their families as well as permanent homes for children whose parents have lost parental rights.

With goals of stability and permanency, Volunteers of America Foster Care works to reunite families when possible, and to provide the best care to infants, children, and adolescents while they are in placement.

In addition to often suffering from abuse and neglect, children may also have behavioral problems, educational deficits, be pregnant, or teen mothers. Social work services are provided to help the family identify its strengths, using them along with community supports as permanency goals are achieved.

Foster Parents are trained to care for the child’s day to day needs, including therapy and doctors appointments. Kinship Care A growing number of children who cannot live with their parents are being raised by an “extended family” member or another adult who has a bond with the children or their parent(s).  This type of arrangement is known as Kinship Care.  Through Volunteers of America Kinship Care program, children placed in the home of “extended family.” Caregivers receive social work services and support to provide a safe, nurturing, temporary home for the children.  The primary placement goal is reunification of the children and parents, however, at times, various placement alternatives are explored and obtained. Contact Us If you live in the Philadelphia area and would like to open your heart and home to a child in need, contact Volunteers of America at 215-930-0129, and ask to speak to a recruiter.  Your time could make a positive difference in a life.