We place local children who are in need of a safe and stable home with supportive foster families in Lycoming County.
Our Mission
Lycoming Foster Care’s mission is to provide temporary foster care to children in need in Lycoming County.
OUR VISION
Lycoming Foster Care is committed to keeping children entering foster care in their community. It is our vision to keep every child placed in foster care in their home school district, close to their family and friends.
OUR VALUES
Lycoming Foster Care believes that children should remain in their family home whenever possible. When children need to enter foster care, the goal is to provide temporary care while the child’s family remedies the situation that led to the child’s removal. Lycoming Foster Care also believes that children are best served when they can be placed with a kinship family. When this is not possible and a child enters temporary care, Lycoming Foster Care believes a child must remain within their community.
OUR NEED
Lycoming Foster Care is in need of families willing to provide temporary or sometimes long-term care to children in need in Lycoming County. We need families able to provide care to children ages 0 - 21, families willing to foster large sibling groups, and families willing to foster children with special needs. There can never be too many families ready to provide care to our foster children.
“If I’m not being biased, fostering or adopting local children is the most long-term difference you can make in our community. ”
Lycoming Foster Care is a protective service for children through Lycoming Children & Youth Services.
Foster Care involves all people who may take on the task of housing, caring for, providing stability, and loving children who are not safe in their own home. The primary goal of Lycoming Foster Care is to keep families together and reunite them as soon as possible.
Types of Foster Care
There are three types of Foster Care we facilitate:
“Traditional” Foster Care – a resource home that fosters children who are not related to them and may or may not have interest in adoption.
Foster to Adoption – a resource home that fosters children who are not related to them and would like to adopt a foster child.
Kinship Care – a resource home that fosters children who are related to them or a non relative who has a positive pre-existing relationship with the child.