Turning Points For Children

Resource parent/foster care is a foster care program that provides safe and healthy homes for over 700 children in philadelphia. Turning points for children's foster care program provides safe and healthy homes for over 700 children in philadelphia. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to remove a child from their family while issues related to child abuse and neglect are addressed. When this happens, a turning points case manager works closely with the biological and foster family, relative caregivers, dhs, the courts and other agencies to help the family address its challenges and reunify the child with the biological family as soon as possible. When that is not possible, turning points works to find another permanent family.

Yv lifeset: yv lifeset program provides transition services to young adults ages 17-22, who have aged out of foster care, juvenile justice and mental health systems, or who would otherwise find themselves without the skills and resources to live successfully at this critical junction in their young lives. The program model provides a proven level of intense case management in that the yvlifeset specialists are available to the young adults 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They make a minimum of one face-to-face contact per week with the youth at the youth's home, job or wherever is most convenient. The number of sessions is increased as needed to match the individual needs of each young adult. The yvlifeset program integrates both clinical and case management components to help ensure young people are engaged in the program and establish permanency, education, employment, housing and basic independent living skills.