Services Offered
Adoption
Serves birth mothers who desire pregnancy counseling and/or assistance in creating an adoption plan. Also serves prospective adoptive families who wish to pursue infant or public adoption. Public adoption includes children in foster homes, Joshua House and other residential programs who are eligible for adoption. Program social workers provide MAPP (Model Approach to Partnership and Parenting) training to prospective adoptive parents.
Care Management - Hillsborough Kids (Tampa)
Main Line: (813) 471-0006
Provides full-service dependency case management to children who have been victims of abuse or neglect. Hillsborough Kids Care Management utilizes a "wrap-around" philosophy to ensure the safety and well-being of children. The goal is to find safe, permanent homes for children in a timely manner.
Foster Care (Tampa)
Main Line: (813) 471-0006
Services include recruitment, training, licensing and support to foster families. Foster parents provide guidance, nurturing and stable parenting to children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned and, as a result, removed from their homes.
Click here for more information on how to become a foster parent!
Joshua House (Lutz)
Main Line: (813) 949-8946
An emergency residential shelter providing group care and shelter services for up to 48 children ages 6-17 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Staffed by caring workers who provide 24-hour awake supervision, Joshua House is located on an 11-acre campus comprised of several ranch-style homes and includes therapy, case management, behavioral interventions and recreational activities.