Foster Parenting

Adoption and Foster Care Services - Program
New York State Office of Children and Family Services

100 South Salina Street
Suite 350
Syracuse, NY

Provides detailed information about adoptions and New York State's foster care system and the needs of children in temporary out-of-home placement. Helps interested individuals go through the fostering or adoption process and provides information and supports for families with foster or adopted children in the home.

Foster Care and Adoptions - Program
Herkimer County Department of Social Services

301 North Washington Street
Suite 2110
Herkimer, NY

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

Foster Care Services - Program
Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth

13640 State Route 22
Canaan, NY

Offers foster care services throughout New York State. Facilitates different kinds of foster care, such as respite, emergency or urgent, kinship, therapeuic, and foster-to-adopt.

SOHO Regional Permanency Resource Center - Program
The Neighborhood Center, Inc.

628 Mary Street
Neighborhood Center
Utica, NY

Provides assistance to post-adoptive and post-guardianship families so that children may be cared for in their own homes with their adoptive parent(s) or legal guardian(s).