6 services in Berks County. Safe Berks answers its hotline around the clock and runs the county’s confidential shelter for anyone leaving abuse. The rest of this page is the help for parents: home visiting, parenting classes, the diaper bank, kinship and foster care, and mentors and after-school programs for kids.
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Berks Community Action Program runs the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Program, which supports, counsels and challenges fathers to become strong and positive role models within their families. The…
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The Partners in Parenting Program, known as PIP, is run by Berks County Children & Youth Services and uses experienced foster parents to teach parents practical, hands-on parenting skills. The goals…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
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The Family Center at Berks Community Action Program runs parenting classes that give moms and dads tools to strengthen their parenting skills, using the evidence-based Systematic Training for…
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Berks County Children and Youth Services approves resource parents, also called foster parents, to care for children the agency places in their homes. A foster family provides care, nurturing and…
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CHOR Youth & Family Services places children and teens with foster families in Berks County and surrounding areas, and trains and supports the adults who open their homes. Foster care provides…
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Family Promise of Berks County runs the U Turn Program, which offers direct support and intensive case management for unaccompanied and homeless youth in Berks County through a Drop-In Center. Young…
From Family Promise of Berks County
Every rule, cost and phone number here comes from the provider. We are a guide to Berks County, not the program: call before you go. If something is wrong, every service page has a report link, and our corrections policy says what happens next.