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Foster Care and Adoption
Overview
The Foster Family Program at Northeast Parent & Child Society
provides foster and pre-adoptive foster homes for abused and neglected
children from birth through age 21. Each foster parent receives
intensive training and ongoing professional support to promote a
positive, successful experience.
Our conveniently-located offices place experienced staff right in
your community and close to your home. If you can provide a loving,
stable home to a foster child in need, please call us today!
Services
* A comprehensive screening and matching process
* Parenting Skills Training presenting concrete skills in behavior
management, communication, and building children’s
self-esteem
* Ongoing training and support through regular meetings with other local
Northeast foster parents
* Weekly home visits and clinical support from experienced staff
* Seasonal foster family program celebrations
* Adoption assistance
 Benefits
* Helping children in your own community
* Part-time and full-time fostering opportunities
* Opportunities to keep children together by fostering biological
siblings
* Opportunities to adopt children of all ages
* Round-the-clock on-call support from professional staff
* Eligibility for 30 days of respite care per year, when foster
children stay with other certified Northeast foster families to
provide foster parents and children a break
* Generous monthly allowance to help support foster children
* Health coverage for foster children
Signing up
* Northeast foster parents are at least 21 years old, may be married
or single, and may work outside the home.
* Foster parents may already have children of their own or may want to
become parents through our foster care program.
Click
here for FAQs about becoming a foster parent.
Click here to
inquire about becoming a foster parent.
Please contact a program location near
you by referring to the list below:
Vice
President: Kim Cummins
Kim.Cummins@neparentchild.org
1 Genium Plaza, Schenectady, NY 12304
(518) 370-3127
Director:
Bill Marszalek
Bill.Marszalek@neparentchild.org
1 Genium Plaza, Schenectady, NY 12304
(518) 370-3127
Director: Kate Schofield
kate.schofield@neparentchild.org
1 Genium Plaza, Schenectady, NY 12304
(518) 370-3127
Program
Locations:
Schenectady, NY
Program Coordinator: Julie
Lindh
Julie.Lindh@neparentchild.org
Recruiter: Margaret Pauzé
Margaret.Pauze@neparentchild.org
530 Franklin Street, 2nd Floor, Schenectady, NY 12305
(518) 372-6708
Queensbury, NY
Program Coordinator: Eileen Thompson
Eileen.Thompson@neparentchild.org
Recruiter: Lisa Costello|
Lisa.Costello@neparentchild.org
63
Quaker Road, Queensbury, NY 12804
(518) 798-4496
Castleton,
NY
Program Coordinator:
Jenny McMillen
Jenny.McMillen@neparentchild.org
Recruiter: Jessica Lawrence
Jessica.Lawrence@neparentchild.org
1580 Columbia Turnpike, Suite # 14 - Castleton, NY 12033
(518) 477-9085
Hudson, NY
Program Coordinator: Tara Klein
Tara.Klein@neparentchild.org
Recruiter: Mickey Kayser
Mickey.Kayser@neparentchild.org
454
Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534
(518) 671-6755
Catskill, NY
Program Coordinator: Tara Klein
Tara.Klein@neparentchild.org
Recruiter: Mickey Kayser
Mickey.Kayser@neparentchild.org
455 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414
(518) 719-8066
Johnstown, NY
Program Coordinator: Sueann Mullarkey
Sueann.Mullarkey@neparentchild.org
338 North Comrie Avenue, Johnstown,
NY 12095
(518) 736-1780
Onetona, NY
Program Coordinator: David Martinkovic
David.Martinkovic@neparentchild.org
297 River Street Service
Road, Oneonta, NY 13820
(607) 441-5055
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