Current Programs

The agency's current major programs are:

Services to Children in their Own Homes (SCOH):

This program provides families with comprehensive child welfare services such as child abuse, homelessness, parenting education, childhood development and counseling through structured prevention and intervention as well as advocacy. The goal of the program is to ensure the safe environment of the child, to preserve the family, and to prevent the child from being placed outside the home.

Family Life Advocates' Services for the Home (FLASH):

This program helps direct children and teens away from the Philadelphia Court System through short term counseling and intervention. The program focuses on building strong ties between the home, school, and community. Through social adjustment within the community, the program provides ways to motivate the participants to set up goals and make realistic plans for the future.

Life Skills Education Workshops:

This program offers assessment, community resources information, and referral services to those who are in need. Service referrals include: meals to the elderly, housekeeping, personal care, chore services, homemaking, adolescent employment, pregnancy testing pre & post natal care, pediatric care, screening & treatment for venereal disease, adoption, mental health, religious services, housing information, and ancillary services.