Programs & Services
SVS provides a wide variety of programs and services to support children and families. We consider every child who comes through our doors a member of the SVS family, and all of our programs are designed to help support that family relationship. From foster homes and adoption services to our Learning Center and tutoring programs to our American Dream Program (which provides academic and financial assistance to promising young scholars who are desirous of a college education), SVS does whatever it takes to support our children and prepare them for successful, independent adult lives.
American Dream Youth Excel
Compared to other foster care youth, SVS American Dream graduates:
- Have more education
- Are more likely to be in school currently; and have taken out fewer loans to make this possible
- Are less likely to have ever been homeless
- Work more hours, earn higher wages, have more benefits, and when unemployed are more likely to want and look for work
- Are more likely to have both medical and dental insurance
- Are less likely to be dependent on Medicaid
- Are more likely to own their own homes
- Are more likely to have savings and/or checking accounts
- Are generally more satisfied and more optimistic about the future.
