Services Offered

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.

Provide local residents, particularly youth, with skills to help avoid crime and to solve community problems.

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.

Seeks loving, permanent homes for children in foster care. Also recruits those interested in special needs adoptions and offers required training.

Pairs adult mentors with children who have an incarcerated parent. Mentors, who commit to be matched with a child for at least one year, help guide and encourage youth to reach their full potential.

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.

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.

Provides on-on-one mentoring to teens in foster care. Mentors offer support and guidance as youth transition from foster care to independent living when they turn 18.

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.

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.

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.

Provides specialized mentoring by matching teen parents with adult parents to help pregnant and parenting teens incorporate critical baby skills to improve the parent's and child's well-being. The mentoring may occur during the employment of the teen.

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.