Foster Care

General Foster Care provides temporary families for children found by the courts to be at imminent risk of harm and placed in the child welfare system. The foster parents are certified and trained by Tabor to meet the children's many special needs. Tabor social workers and foster parents are a team that nurture the child in foster care and provide support for the birth family's efforts to achieve the child's return home. Social work efforts focus on the concerns that brought the child into placement, and permanency is achieved through family reunification, supported permanent legal custodianship or adoption.

Aftercare Services are offered in Philadelphia to families and youth after formal service interventions have concluded. These additional supportive services promote the stability and permanency of families and youth, and may consist of home visitation, crisis intervention, family meetings, assessments, referrals to community resources and access to food, clothing or other necessities.

Medical Foster Care serves children with medical or physically disabling conditions who require extensive specialized medical, physical and developmental care. Trained social workers coordinate the efforts of health care personnel, foster parents and birth families to secure every service necessary to improve the health and functioning of the child.

Treatment Foster Care offers specialized supports for children experiencing difficulties with the emotional impact of early deprivation, abuse, or separation and loss. Foster parents receive special training in advocacy, behavior modification and care for children with mental health diagnoses. Social workers provide intensive support to maintain the stability of the child.

Respite is a service that enables the foster parent to take a break from meeting the special needs of the child in care, while also giving the child the benefit of a stimulating change of environment. Respite is only available for certain specified levels of foster care.

Foster Parent Training focuses on the challenges of parenting another’s child, with particular emphasis on the special needs and behaviors foster children may exhibit. For a schedule of the training for foster parents who have been approved and have completed their orientation, see the calendar under Events and News.