Services Offered
Adoption Resource Center
Promotes the healthy care and development of children in stable, loving homes. Services include birth parent counseling, domestic adoptions, international adoption home studies and parenting classes.
Bridges Program
Through the Bridges Program, we work to increase healthy births, decrease child abuse and neglect, and increase school readiness in targeted areas of Palm Beach County. The program helps families obtain the services and assistance they need so they may support their children's learning and development.
Dependency Case Management
Offers a wide variety of services to children who have been abused and/or neglected. The goal is to reunify children with their families or facilitate another appropriate permanent placement. Services also include counseling and referrals.
Families 4 Kids
Seeks loving, permanent homes for children in foster care. Also recruits those interested in special needs adoptions and offers required training.
Mentoring Programs
Transitions Mentoring: a one-on one community-based mentoring program for children who live in a single parent household. Each youth is matched with a mentor who can provide guidance and support to help each child develop to their fullest potential.
Project 18 Mentoring: provides one-on-one mentoring for foster care youth ages 11 to 17. Mentors offer support and guidance as youth transition from foster care to independent living when they turn 18.
Nelle Smith Residence
Provides residential care and support for girls ages 13-18 who need long-term care due to a history of abuse, neglect and/or lack of an appropriate family setting. Services prepare girls for independent living and help them mature into adulthood with skills to attain self-sufficiency and a productive future.
Project 18
Focuses on activities that prepare foster youth and homeless teens for successful independent living when they turn 18. Offered during after-school hours, the curriculum includes core classes, job coaching, substance abuse prevention activities, sports clubs, broadcast journalism training and life skills classes.
Project Safe Place
An outreach education program with a transportation component to our Safe Harbor Runaway Center. More than 150 business and public sites create a network of "safe places" for youth seeking help during a crisis.
Safe Harbor
Palm Beach County's only emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, Safe Harbor also provides emergency shelter to teens in the dependency system while they await a more permanent placement.
Teen and Family Counseling Center
Offers counseling to runaway, truant and high-risk youth. Designed to preserve and strengthen the family, services include screening and assessment, therapeutic counseling, family reunification, case management, referrals, and follow-up.
Transitions Home
Provides a safe, nurturing environment for teen mothers and their babies to become a self-sufficient, healthy family. Mothers and their children may stay for up to two years.