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The Foster Care Project is currently working with five (5) Foster Care Agencies.  These agencies are willing and committed to going above and beyond the required minimum set of standards to be affirmative and inclusive to the LGBTQ community.

• SCO Family of Services has been providing services for over 100 years.  Formerly named St. Christopher Ottlie, after merging with Family Dynamics the name was changed in 1994 to SCO Family Serives. SCO provides multiple services throughout New York and Long Island.
  
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• Leake & Watts has care for children since the 1830s. According, to Leake & Watts they service over 2,800 individuals throughout the New York. Leake & Watts is a not-for-profit organization that has a host of program designed to assist individuals with a multitude of concerns. Here is the response on the LGBT Foster Care Project application.
  
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• Abbott Househas been providing services since 1963. Today, Abbott House continues to provide services to children and families in New York City, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster Counties. Abbott House provides a variety of services in it’s foster boarding, residential and preventive programs.
  
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• Episcopal Social Services is a non-sectarian agency that has been providing services for over 150 years to children and families in the most vulnerable states of being. ESS.operates foster boarding programs, afterschool programs, residential facilities, prevention services, and early childhood, MR/DD programs. The mission of ESS is to transform the lives and communities of New Yorkers in need.
  
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• Harlem Dowling is a non-profit organization that has been located in Central Harlem since 1960 and providing direct services since 1836. Harlem Dowling-West Side Center (HDWC) is devoted to assisting children and families in crisis and need. HDWC has a broad range of services that address and needs of the youth and families they service.
  
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