Agency Services

Foster Care And Adoption Services

• Foster Care - services for children placed in foster care and their families

• Preparing Youth for Adulthood - for teens preparing for discharge from foster care to their own responsibility

• Mother/Child Program - services for teen moms in foster care

• Kinship Program - for children placed in foster care with relatives

• Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home - placement in structured therapeutic homes for children with severe emotional disabilities

• Adoption Services - orientation, legal and case management services to pre-adoptive families

• Post Legal Adoption Services - services for adoptive families post finalization

• Supervised Independent Living Program - preparing young women and men for self-sufficiency through supervised independent living, full-time employment and/or  educational/vocational job training.

Intake

• Homefinding

• Foster Parent Recruitment

• Orientation & Licensing

Medical and Clincal Services

• Medical Services

• Dental Services

• Well Child Care

• Immunizations

Mental Health

• Comprehensive Diagnostic Services

• Creative Therapies

• Art & Play Therapy

Family Strengthening

• Case management services to families who are at risk of disruption (foster care placement)

• Individual, group and family counseling

• High Risk Teen Initiative - intensive case management services for high risk teens and their families

• Birth Parent Training (English & Spanish)

• Loyce W. Bynum-Mother/Child Program - serving young women (17-20) and their children, in a structured, supervised but independent living situation.

• Preparing Youth for Adulthood (PYA)

Community Support

• P.L.A.Y - youth outreach education program to reduce HIV/AIDS infection in adolescents

• Multi-Service Agency (MSA) HIV/AIDS Educational Outreach - socially and culturally sensitive prevention, education, outreach and HIV/AIDS services

• Emergency Food Pantry - emergency food assistance to individuals and families

• Service Coordination and Family Reimbursement - case management services to families whose children are developmentally delayed

Children’s Educational Services

• Educational and recreational services to students in Central Harlem

"Each year, Harlem Dowling serves more than 2,500 inner-city children and their families."