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Catholic Social Services is a licensed, non-profit foster care and adoption agency serving families throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. Our experienced foster care and adoption specialists will provide you with personal and professional services at all times.

Infants: Catholic Social Services provides an infant adoption program. This is primarily for childless, married couples who may qualify in providing a stable, nurturing home for an infant.

Foster-Adopt: If a child remains in Foster Care for an extended period of time, and the circumstance warranting placement has not changed, the placing agency may change the goal to adoption. This change of goal is always done to serve the best interest of the child. In that case, Foster Parents who have been caring for the child are asked to consider being an adoptive resource. The percentage of children adopted through Foster Care continues to increase.

International Adoption: Our agency provides a variety of pre- and post-adoption services and home studies to families throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania, regardless of the international agency one chooses to complete the adoption.

Home Studies Services: Completing the home study process is a necessary first step as a family begins the adoption journey. CSS adoption staff are happy to provide home study services to Northeastern Pennsylvania families adopting domestically or internationally, using our agency or other placement agencies throughout the United States.

Statewide Adoption & Permanency Network (SWAN): Catholic Social Services is also a service provider for the Pennsylvania State Wide Adoption and Permanency Network. There are numerous children with special needs throughout the state that need permanent homes. Families are needed to provide permanency for these children who have been languishing within the system. These children may be older or have some special needs, but still need the nurturance of a permanent family.

SWAN Services Offered through CSS:
Child Profiles
Child Preparation
Child Specific Recruitment
Family Profiles/Preparation
Placement
Finalization
Post Permanency Services

CSS provides ongoing supportive services to adoptive, kinship and legal custodian families through support groups and individual services. As part of our adoption services, CSS conducts home study services for those individuals who are adopting privately or internationally. Post Placement supervision and services are also available.

Post Permanency Services:

Whether your adoption is recent or took place years ago; whether your adoption was through the Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN), International or Private; whether you are a kinship family or a legal custodian (including grandparents); parents may require a continuum of support services to ensure success as permanent families.

There are several services offered to those who have are providing permanency for children:
Case Advocacy
Case Management
Support Group
Respite

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