Children's Home of York

This community based program serves dependent and delinquent males ages 15 up to their 21st birthday. The program implements Sanctuary principles and equips residents with the skills they need to function as positive, productive citizens - in the family, workplace, and the community. Residents learn to take responsibility for their actions and their future. For many of our residents, that empowerment brings healing and positive behavioral changes.

Children's Home of York's BRIDGES™ Partial Hospitalization Program is a day program for children and adolescents age 6 - 18 who are experiencing: suicidal or homicidal ideation, hopelessness, severe anxiety symptoms, trauma symptoms, impulsivity, etc. Clients receive academic instruction through the Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. 12, as well as specialized therapeutic services.

Children's Home of York provides a variety of services for children, their birth families, foster families, and /or their adoptive families from birth through twenty-one years of age. Our structured family homes offer intensive support with the goal of helping children in our care secure a permanent, loving, ad forever family as quickly as possible. This includes providing services that enable reunification with the birth family or preparation and support toward adoption.

We work with a pool of resource parents (including kinship families) and offer a variety of permanency support services. We maintain an ongoing process of recruitment, screening, and training. This process enables us to offer diverse racial and ethnic environments essential to the successful placement of children, sibling groups, and children with special needs.

Adoption services are provided for youth who are referred by County Children and Youth Services agencies, for potential families who are self-referred or referred by county agencies, and for families who have adopted and desire post adoption support.

The Integrated Practice Team (IPT) is a family centered, strength based and team approach of community partners aimed to develop a comprehensive action plan with the intent of keeping children at home, while maintaining the integrity of the family. IPT will join families and community partners together to review innovative solutions for keeping children at home. During the meeting, a comprehensive, goal-driven family action plan will be created a signed by everyone present. An IPT assistant will follow up with the family for 90 days after the meeting for updates and completion.