Services Offered

Promotes the healthy care and development of children in stable, loving homes. Services include birth parent counseling, domestic adoptions, international adoption home studies and parenting classes.

Provide local residents, particularly youth, with skills to help avoid crime and to solve community problems.

Offers a wide variety of services to children who have been abused and/or neglected. The goal is to reunify children with their families or facilitate another appropriate permanent placement. Services also include counseling and referrals.

Seeks loving, permanent homes for children in foster care. Also recruits those interested in special needs adoptions and offers required training.

Provides residential care and support for girls ages 13-18 who need long-term care due to a history of abuse, neglect and/or lack of an appropriate family setting. Services prepare girls for independent living and help them mature into adulthood with skills to attain self-sufficiency and a productive future.

Focuses on activities that prepare foster youth and homeless teens for successful independent living when they turn 18. Offered during after-school hours, the curriculum includes core classes, job coaching, substance abuse prevention activities, sports clubs, broadcast journalism training and life skills classes.

An outreach education program with a transportation component to our Safe Harbor Runaway Center. More than 150 business and public sites create a network of "safe places" for youth seeking help during a crisis.

Palm Beach County's only emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, Safe Harbor also provides emergency shelter to teens in the dependency system while they await a more permanent placement.

Offers counseling to runaway, truant and high-risk youth. Designed to preserve and strengthen the family, services include screening and assessment, therapeutic counseling, family reunification, case management, referrals, and follow-up.

Provides a safe, nurturing environment for teen mothers and their babies to become a self-sufficient, healthy family. Mothers and their children may stay for up to two years.

MODEL (Mentors Opening Doors, Enriching Lives):
Provides one-to-one mentoring for children ages 4 to 17 who have a parent incarcerated in a federal or state prison. Each child is matched with a mentor who can provide one-on-one guidance and support to help the youth develop to his or her fullest potential.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call Olivia (561) 868-4378 or Margie (561) 868-4332.

Transitions Mentoring:
Provides specialized mentoring by matching teen parents with adults to help pregnant and parenting teens incorporate critical baby skills into their parenting to improve their own and their child’s well-being. The Transitions Mentoring program is a member of Healthy Beginnings. To learn more about the programs serving pregnant women and children from birth to 5 years of age, or to learn if your family is eligible, call (888) 634-7900.
For more information about Transitions Mentoring, please call Ana (561) 868-4387 or Vanessa (561) 868-4378.