Families

Foster Care Agencies

The LGBT Foster Care Project

The Foster Care Project has worked with Foster Care Agencies. These agencies have demonstrated a commitment to implementing practices affirmative and inclusive of the LGBTQ community.

  • Abbott House has 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. For more information, visit the Abbott House web site.

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  • Children's Aid Society Children's Aid finds homes for more than 500 children each year. Our foster care program provides specialized services including Family Foster Care, Medical Foster Care, Therapeutic Foster Care and services for teens "aging out" of foster care. For more information, visit the Children's Aid Society web site

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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. For more information, visit the Leake & Watts web site.

  • MercyFirst today offers an integrated continuum of care for children in need, from birth through adolescence, including children who have been abused and neglected; youth with serious emotional problems; teenagers and young adults who are without family; and families coping with the stress and pressures of poverty, domestic violence, mental illness, and substance abuse. For more information go to the Mercy First web site.

  • 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. For more information. visit the SCO Family of Services web site.
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