Foster care provides temporary care with foster parents for children who are unable to remain in their own homes and are placed in the custody of the county children and youth agency by the courts.
Foster babies in pa.
The next greatest distribution is children between 16 and 20 years of age 23 percent.
Both public and private foster care agencies as well as the pennsylvania state resource family association toll free.
There are sibling groups who need to be placed into homes together as well.
Over half of these children are at least 13 and the danger of aging out of the foster care system increases with each year.
They need adoptive families.
While many connect foster care to troubled teenagers the facts again paint a different picture.
In pennsylvania the majority of children in foster care 30 percent are between one and five years of age.
This medical appraisal establishes that the applicant is physically able to care for children and also does not have any communicable diseases.
Currently there are between 13 000 15 000 children in pennsylvania s foster care system.
For many other children their case workers have already determined that they cannot return to their birth families.
800 951 5151 recruit foster parents to provide these services for children.
These children are all ages.