Parsons Child and Family Center
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Contact Information
60 Academy Road
Albany, NY 12208
United States
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Albany, NY 12208
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8:30 AM-7:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM-7:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM-7:30 PM |
| Thursday | 8:30 AM-7:30 PM |
| Friday | 8:30 AM-5 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
One family helping many families thrive.
Founded where the Mohawk and Hudson meet, like the rivers that shaped our region, Northern Rivers Family of Services empowers children, adults, and families to change their lives and build stronger communities.
Comprised of parent company Northern Rivers and member agencies Northeast Parent & Child Society, Parsons Child & Family Center, and Unlimited Potential, we are a family of human services agencies providing help and hope to those who struggle with abuse, neglect, trauma, mental health challenges, educational difficulties, career training and employment, and service navigation through an innovative continuum of home-, clinic-, school-, and community-based, vocational rehabilitative, supported employment, and senior-supporting programs that provide person-centered, trauma-informed innovative solutions to ensure clients live their best lives.
Our quality of care, dedication to best practices, vast knowledge and experience, and passion for our work make us a leading human services provider, nurturing innovation, focusing on outcomes, and constantly rethinking and refining our philosophy, services, and operations to better meet the needs of the communities we serve.
Informed by our 190-year heritage, our 1,400-strong workforce provides life-changing care for 18,000 children, adults, and families throughout 41 counties in New York state.
Our Mission
Empowering children, adults, and families to change their lives and build stronger communities.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
Raising foster children is a rewarding and life-changing experience. You can make a real difference in a child's life, helping them on a path toward success.
Remember that fostering affects the whole family, so talk to your partner and biological children if you're considering this journey. Learn more about what to expect and ensure it fits your lifestyle. You must be healthy and have enough time and energy to care for a child and meet their needs. This is important for gaining foster parent approval because every child must have this foundation of support.
Each state has requirements for foster parents. In New York, applicants must:
- Be 21 years of age or older
- Live in a safe and stable environment
- Have enough space for a foster child
- Show financially stability
- Prove that all family members are in good health
- Pass a background check
- Clear a home safety inspection
- Attend required foster parent training
- Complete the Home Study process
- Provide a minimum of three character references
Foster families in New York can rent or own their homes. Adults can become foster parents no matter their marital or divorce status. All adults who are living in the home with foster children must pass the New York required criminal background check. Every adult must complete both state and federal background checks and undergo fingerprinting.
Interested candidates can make the first call to foster services and get the approval and licensing process started. Contact the New York Office of Children and Family Services (NYOCFS) or your local Department of Social Services (DSS). The first step after expressing interest will be to attend a foster orientation. Potential foster parents can learn about the approval process at the event and get questions answered by a foster child advocate.
The foster parent training requirement begins with pre-service training. After getting licensed, foster parents must participate in ongoing training and educational programs.
Ratings and Reviews
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May 17, 2018
Never send your child here! Your child will come out of there not the same child that had gone in..! This place is definitely not the place for anyones child to live in or get any type of services!
May 08, 2018
Lots of things for kids to do. Very clean. Staff is wonderful
Jan 31, 2018
i have been trying for over 6 weeks to schedule an initial appointment for my son, on the recommendation of a friend. it is like trying to meet the pope or the president. i have called regularly, and each time i am transferred to voicemail. the receptionist tells me how in the phone log it shows i have called repeatedly, yet i have received no response. one time they had my phone number listed incorrectly, and another time they told me my son had to call to make the appointment, as he is 18 years old. he was 17 when i first began calling. perhaps if they continue to perform this well, he will qualify for a senior citizen's discount--should he get in.
Apr 22, 2017
'Disney land' LOL!!!!!!!! This place will ruin a youth's life for these amount of reasons I can say
-unprofessional staff always on phones will make the youth in crisis go in a outraged where all the sudden we have APD running around sending these youths to CDPC and returning back with no help
- traumatic behaviors they do not care if you are not that dramatizing as these youths are you will be soon enough to fit in these miraculous behaviors and escape into running away and having sex at a really undeveloped age how disgusting!!!!!!!
- you will be loaded with prescriptions that aren't needed for your benefit because this agency described all these youths the same as in traumatizing
all I can say is this not a place where you want to be permanently at or achieve in you will get train wrecked !!!!!!!!!!