Foster Family & Adoptive Services
The SVS Family Foster Care Program exists to make sure that New York City children and youth who need our help are placed in safe, loving homes. Thanks to donor support, we are able to offer extensive adoption and post-adoption services to the families and communities we serve. We also provide intensive case management for our older adolescents and their foster and natural families to prepare them for aging out of care and coping with the dynamics of the transition to adulthood.
In 2000 SVS launched our innovative Specialized Preventive Services initiative-a community-based program that provides a host of services to families and children in order to prevent foster care placement when possible. Our services are geared towards families with a child at risk, in particular those who have a special medical condition and/or a developmental disability.
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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.
