39 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 County Children and Youth Services provides adoption services to children in the agency's custody, and points people who want to adopt toward the outside agencies that prepare families. When…
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Fleetwood
CONCERN Professional Services for Children helps children and youth in foster care find a permanent family, and works with families who want to adopt one of them. As an affiliate of the PA Statewide…
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Reading
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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Reading · Taking applications
Berks County Children and Youth Services takes reports about children in Berks County who may be abused or neglected, and its staff investigate all reports of child maltreatment in the county. The…
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The Children's Alliance Center of Berks County, known as the CAC, is a service of the Berks County District Attorney's office that works with child victims of sexual abuse. It brings law enforcement…
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Countywide
CONCERN Professional Services for Children, Youth, and Families runs a group of community-based programs meant to help keep or reunite children with their families and community, and they are…
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Countywide
CONCERN Professional Services for Children places children who cannot live with their birth parents in foster homes, and recruits, trains and supports the families who take them in. Foster parents…
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Reading
Berks County Children and Youth Services works with families in their own homes after a report of child abuse or neglect, so that children can stay safely where they are instead of being placed…
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Countywide · By referral only
CHOR Youth & Family Services runs a Specialized Foster Care program that provides specialized resource families and In-Home Interventionist services for clients with maladaptive sexual behaviors…
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Tulpehocken Area School District names staff to contact with questions about children and youth who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. All questions or inquiries go to Taylor…
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Bethel
Tulpehocken Area School District has a Coordinator of Student and Family Support Services who helps district students and their families with food, health coverage paperwork and connections to other…
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Antietam School District has a staff liaison for students who are experiencing homelessness, meaning students without a fixed, regular and adequate place to sleep at night, as defined under the…
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The Exeter Township School District works each year with students and families who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity, offering them services, resources and transportation so…
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Antietam School District has a Foster Care Liaison who works with county children and youth agency staff to decide which school is best for a child in foster care and to arrange transportation to…
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The Student Assistance Program at Exeter Township School District is a process for identifying, assisting and supporting students who may be experiencing barriers to learning because of academic…
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Schuylkill Valley School District has a homeless liaison who helps students who are going through housing problems get and stay in school under the federal McKinney-Vento Act. You may qualify if you…
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The Berks County Intermediate Unit provides technical assistance and professional development related to the education of foster care youth, who frequently change schools in ways that disrupt their…
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Daniel Boone Area School District helps students who do not have stable housing stay in school, using the rights given by the federal McKinney-Vento Act and the Pennsylvania Education for Children…
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Communities In Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania places a Site Coordinator inside partner schools to connect students with the help they need to stay in school and learn, and Reading School District…
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Governor Mifflin School District helps children and youth who have lost their housing stay connected to school through McKinney-Vento services, part of the district's Student Services department.…
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs a One-To-One mentoring program that matches a child with an adult volunteer who spends time with that child for at least one year. The agency calls it…
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CHOR Youth & Family Services runs two prevention programs for students in the Reading School District: Project PEACE, a youth-led group that works to curb youth violence and drug use, and Kids…
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Reading
The Berks County Intermediate Unit runs the Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness program, known as ECYEH, which helps children and youth who do not have stable housing get and…
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Fleetwood
Fleetwood Area School District has a homeless liaison who helps children and teens who do not have stable housing stay in school, enroll right away, and get free lunch and help with school costs.…
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Reading
Muhlenberg School District has a social worker in each of its four schools and a district liaison for homelessness who help students who do not have a fixed, regular and adequate place to sleep at…
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Reading School District has a Families in Transition social worker who helps children and teens who do not have stable housing stay enrolled in and attend school under the federal McKinney-Vento…
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Hamburg
Hamburg Area School District has a Homeless Liaison who works with students and families experiencing homelessness so that losing stable housing does not keep a child out of school. The liaison is…
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Topton
Brandywine Heights Area School District helps students who do not have a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime place to live keep going to school, through the McKinney-Vento Act and the district's…
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Boyertown Area School District helps children and youth who do not have stable housing stay in school, enroll right away, and get support such as transportation, free lunch, and help with school…
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Kutztown
The Kutztown Area School District's McKinney-Vento / Helping Hands program is the district's Student & Family Support Program, serving K-12 students who are experiencing homelessness and other life…
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West Lawn
Wilson School District posts a notice explaining that children and youth who are homeless have the same right to a free public education as other students, including the right to keep attending the…
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs SMART, Students & Mentors Achieving Results Together, a mentoring program that takes place entirely inside certain Berks County schools. A mentor meets…
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Topton
The Brandywine Heights Area School District has a Social Services Coordinator who helps students and their families with problems outside the classroom that get in the way of learning. The…
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The Daniel Boone Area School District runs a Student Assistance Program, called SAP, a school-based team that helps families connect with school and community resources when a child is struggling.…
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The Schuylkill Valley School District runs a Student Assistance Program, known as SAP, that identifies students who are having behavior or academic difficulties that stand in the way of their…
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West Lawn
The Student Supports and Services Department at Wilson School District covers the parts of a student's school experience outside the classroom curriculum. That includes registration and child…
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Lorane Elementary School and Jacksonwald Elementary School in the Exeter Township School District use federal Title I money to give students extra instruction on top of their regular classes, based…
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs COUL, the Club of Unmatched Littles, a group mentoring program that holds supervised activities every week for children who are enrolled with the agency…
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The Exeter Township School District publishes the ETSD Resource Guide, an online list of places in Berks County and nearby counties that offer mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, food…
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