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Topia!: Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Service Organizations (22)
Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth - Non-profit child welfare organization that specializes in therapeutic foster care, in home intervention, behavioral health services, adoption services, training and education. For Love of Children - A nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, working to eliminate abuse and neglect, alleviate homelessness, and educate high-risk youth to be responsible, successful adults. PSI Family Services, Inc. - Foster care, health, social work, and independentliving services. St. Ann's Infant and Materntiy - St. Ann's is a home for abused, neglected, and abandoned children and pregnant and parenting teenage women. Family Tree Learning Centers of Edgecombe County - A community collaborative coordinated by Edgecombe County Schools, NC, providing out-of-school youth development programs, adult programs, all age access to school libraries, community events, and family support services. Ennis Center for Children - Nonprofit, multi-service agency providing community based, in home, foster care, adoption and group home services to children and families through Southeast Michigan. Family Futures Project - A Scottish Human Services Trust partnership advocating person centred planning with organisations working directly with children with special educational needs. Provides information for children, young people, families, professionals and organisations in order to help them with planning and problem solving when facing choices and changes. Contact details and e-group registration link also supplied. Rock The Ranch - The mission of the ranch is to serve the needs of abandoned or abused children and animals. Reedemer Ranch - A Christ-centered boarding school with a low student to staff ratio and a home and family atmosphere established to nurture and educate boys, ages 10-15. Joshua House - Operated by the Children's Home Society of Florida, provides a safe haven for children from the Tampa Bay area who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected and removed from their homes by child protection officials in order to assure their safety. Lists services available, contacts details for referals, facts and figures about activities, events calendar, information for donors, volunteers and other helpers, links to partner organisations. The Aggressive Adolescent: Clinical and Forensic Issues - Provides an important resource for parents and clinicians who are involved with aggressive youth and youth who are resistant to treatment services. Lifeways - Child and Family Services - A United Kingdom national provider serving children with special needs and their families with supported living, foster care, respite and residential care, and family support. Site provides contact details and referal procedure. Love A Child Inc. - An interdenominational christian humanitarian and missionary organization that has schools, feeding programs, a child care program, mobile medical clinics, and an orphanage as well as building churches throughout the country of Haiti. Has contact details, information about mission and projects, television broadcast schedule, sponsorship information and secure on-line donor form. The Florence Crittenton Agency, Inc. - Non-profit organization offering services for teens in crisis, pregnant teens, high risk teens, and young moms and dads. Navjeevan - Means "New Life." A non-governmental organisation that rehabilitates children of commercial sex workers in the red-light areas of Mumbai, (formerly Bombay) India. Located in Khapri, Murbad about 120 km from Mumbai, it is a project of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. Gives history and purpose of mission, its needs and challenges faced, a picture gallery and the impressions of visitors as well as related activities and links. Para Los Ninos - For the Children - Los Angeles based nonprofit family service agency providing child care, schooling and various other educational opportunities for at-risk children and support for their families and communities. Lists organisational structure, finances, services offered, newsletters, media statements and reports, information for donors and volunteers. (Has on-line video in a range of speeds.) SOSAFRIK International Inc - Pomona, New Jersey based, international humanitarian organization focused on children and youth issues in health awareness, education and intercultural exchange in the United States, African Continent and the United Kingdom. Has contact details as well as information about mission, current projects, forthcoming events, related news, resources and links, volunteer opportunities, membership and newsletter application forms. Saint Stelian Association - A Romanian Orthodox Church charity helping street children, youth at risk, poor families, old people in need, preventing vagrancy and child abandonment. Has details of activities, how to contribute, links and contact information. Bi-lingual, in Romana and English. Listen Inc - Non-profit training and development organization for community and youth workers. Homes for the Homeless - Founded in 1986, this private non-profit organization, provides residential educational training services to homeless families, works to reduce homelessness by providing families with the education and training that will enable them to build independent lives. The Fresh Air Fund - Sends inner city children to host families or to camp to experience country life.
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