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Providing care for children separated from their parents has been at the core of The Foundling’s mission since our launch in 1869.

Today, The Foundling is one of New York City’s largest providers of foster care services. We utilize evidence-based interventions in our foster care programs that are proven to support happy, healthy, and functioning families. Children may enter foster care for a variety of reasons, including abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Children are referred by the New York City Administration for Children’s Services to organizations—such as The New York Foundling—that place each child with a relative or foster family during this time. The Foundling, and similarly-missioned organizations, provide services that are geared toward keeping children safe and helping them return to their biological parents, remain with their extended family, or find a permanent home. In addition to placing children and youth in homes with caring and supportive foster parents, The Foundling also provides an array of other services that support the needs of children in foster care, including medical and mental health services, employment supports, and educational services.

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Family Foster Care Program

Our Family Foster Care program serves more than 1,000 children year, from newborns to 21-year-olds. We recognize that these children and youth face a wide range of health, safety, educational, and employment risks due to the trauma that comes from family separation, as well as the abuse and maltreatment that often leads to foster care placement. Our program is designed specifically to address these risks, and our foster parents and our program staff members are specially trained in supporting children and young people in this challenging time in their lives.

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Treatment Family Foster Care Program

Many of the children and youth in our foster care programs have histories of diagnosed mental health needs, and others have learning and/or developmental disabilities. The New York Foundling takes extra care to ensure that children are kept in a home setting whenever possible. The Foundling adopted the Treatment Family Foster Care program to provide more specialized support to children in foster care who struggle with serious emotional and behavioral challenges. These children are placed in a home setting where they are supervised by foster parents who are specially trained in trauma, its manifestations, and techniques in managing children who exhibit related symptoms and who have challenging behavioral issues.

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Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO)

Targeting children placed in foster care who have complex mental health challenges and histories of hospitalizations, The Foundling’s Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) program uses the evidence-based model by the same name. The Foundling’s TFCO program is an alternative to group care and is increasingly utilized for youth stepping down from higher levels of care including from the juvenile justice, mental health, and residential systems. It provides comprehensive, inclusive and intensive treatment, support and supervision in a family setting to youth with serious behavioral and/or emotional problems.

Success Stories

Providing community support during the pandemic

Our Staten Island Community Partnership and Healthy Families programs have come together to help keep our neighbors in the North Shore section of Staten Island healthy and safe throughout the pandemic. One of their largest initiatives is a weekly grocery giveaway program that has provided 100 families with essential items, including fruits, vegetables, protein-rich foods, toiletries, and more. Thanks to collaboration with community institutions and businesses – from churches to laundromats – our impassioned team engages with local residents and families to ensure that all of our neighbors have access to the resources they need.

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Our Continued

Impact

107

107 program sites across New York and Puerto Rico

30,000+

people served in The Foundling's programs every year

471,000+

children in New York City are growing up in low-income households

4,000+

middle and high school youth in NYC in foster care

1,000+

mothers with young children who have called The Foundling home

Nearly 50,000

NYC children and families participate in prevention programs every year

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The Foundling's Implementation Support Center works with organizations across the world to help them identify and implement evidence based programs

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To learn more about becoming a foster parent, call 888-847-2838 or email us at foster.parentsupport@nyfoundling.org

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