Catholic Guardian Services

Foster Care Programs: Foster Care Programs - NYC 24 Hour Child Care: Foster Boarding Homes Days Care (168,617) The program provides 24 hour a day safety and care through foster parents for previously abused and neglected children through 280 foster boarding homes in Manhattan and the Bronx. Children in this program receive Medicaid coverage, social services planning and permanency. The foster boarding home program also offers special services to meet special needs such as children living with HIV/Aids and other serious medical problems. The Therapeutic Foster Boarding Homes and Teen Units provide specialized clinical services that have been successful in allowing teenagers and other youngsters with severe emotional and behavioral challenges to live in family foster care rather than institutional settings.

Human Services Programs: PWDD-NYS OPWDD 24 Hour Care for People with Developmental Disabilities (11 Residences) (24,847 Days Care) The program serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing care and shelter and helping them fulfill their goals by carefully balancing supports and independence. This is accomplished through participation in day programs where people in the program learn new life skills by shopping, helping with household chores, playing sports, attending concerts, visiting museums and taking vacations. The participants in the program are part of the community around them holding jobs, doing volunteer work and having friends and knowing their neighbors.

Unaccompanied Children (31,438 days care) - This program provides temporary community residential and family home services to unaccompanied minors who are apprehended in the U.S. by Homeland Security agents.

Human Services Programs, General/Other: Prevention (265 families) The Family Connections, Functional Family Therapy-Child Welfare, and Child Success Preventive programs provide support and stability to families in crisis with the goal of preventing placement of children in out-of-home care.

Foster Care Programs: HTP Group Homes (3) (8,424 days care) The program provides 24 hour a day supervision, food, clothing, education, medical care and an intensive support system to older youth with severe emotional and behavioral challenges. The group homes are specially designed, clinically-based treatment programs targeting the needs of this population to adolescents. Types of group homes include Rapid Assessment Centers providing evaluations and safety assessments to determine whether youth can be discharged from foster care, Assertive Community Treatment Homes serving the mentally ill population as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization and a Non-Secure Detention Program which motivates youth in the juvenile justice system to reconsider their values and personal goals while in a safe and secure environment.

Health Care Programs, General/Other: Medicaid (485 children) Medicaid is available to children in foster boarding homes and group homes to help provide for medical and health needs. It provides services to assist anyone in this population in need of medical assistance including those with various illnesses and disabilities. The program gives an option for those in need of medical services and treatment of any medical or health related issues.

Adoption Programs: Maternity Services is a privately funded initiative that affirms the sanctity and dignity of life by helping pregnant women and their unborn children in need through counseling, community referrals, parenting classes and adoption education. Adoption Services brings children and families together through adoptions and placements of children in adoptive homes.

Human Services Programs, General/Other: Healthy Families (86 families). The program is community- based which ensures the healthy development of children before birth to three years of age using the Healthy Families America model to provide families with parenting education in the comfort and security of their own homes.

Foster Care Programs: Preparing Youth for Adulthood. The program provides teenagers with the educational, vocational and life skills they need to thrive as independent adults after leaving foster care.