Seaman's Society for Children and Families

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Contact Information

50 Bay Street
Staten Island, NY 10301
United States

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DayHours
Monday 9 AM-4:45 PM
Tuesday 9 AM-4:45 PM
Wednesday 9 AM-4:45 PM
Thursday 9 AM-4:45 PM
Friday 9 AM-4:45 PM
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed

Seamen’s Society is committed to strengthening and reunifying families. Seamen's Society is a Foster Care Agency. We have treatment family foster care homes in Staten Island and Brooklyn, NY.

We're dedicated to securing the safety and well-being of the children and families entrusted to our care.

Founded in 1846, Seamen’s Society for Children and Families, a private New York nonprofit organization, is dedicated to securing the safety and well-being of the children and families entrusted to our care.

Each day, we serve over 1,250 children and over 500 families.

Our programs protect and care for our communities’ most vulnerable children, while strengthening families living with mental illness, alcohol addiction, substance abuse, domestic/intimate partner violence, and other circumstances which can threaten a child’s safety and future.

We work in a trauma-informed, compassionate manner to meet the needs of the diverse communities we serve.


Services and information

  • Traditional Foster Care
  • Emergency Foster Care
  • Respite Foster Care
  • Adoption
  • Other

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

Average user rating

3.4 / 5
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Levan Goderdzishvili
Mar 24, 2019

My family and I are in outrage. The seamen's Society has decimated and humiliated the Jewish community located on Ocean Parkway and Avenue C they have taking it upon themselves to convert the religion of a young Jewish boy an infant as a matter of fact without consulting the Jewish father or the mother while going through legal processes in Family Court under the Siemens Society watch the community will not stand by while you destroy a Jewish boys future.. Eli and Addam have our full support!!!

Rating: 1

Rob G
Mar 12, 2019

As a Russian American Jew, my blood has been boiling knowing that the Seamen's Society allowed a Jewish child to be baptised & injected with vaccines containing ingredients from pigs. This organization has continually lies about the requirement for supervised visits for my friend, the father of the above mentioned child who is only involved with the Seamen's Society by the mother's error. The anti-semitic responses to the father of the child from the child's caregivers is horrendous. They outright laughed at him when he explained that the child is Jewish and that they did not refer to him when they baptised the baby. The anti-semitism is overt, and will not be tolerated. Our community and congregations will be involved, we will involve the media, and endure until the child is returned to his family.

Rating: 1

ELI Azaryev
Mar 12, 2019

People are not here to reunite families, they kidnap and give children away at their own discretion if a donation or a check is written out to the organization without a judge or any attorneys present they decide what happens to someone's newborn baby without any evidence or proof, they took my newborn baby and allowed the kinship parent while I'm fighting for custody change my son's religion and inject him with vaccinations that contain Pig and child fetus embryos which is strictly against my Jewish Orthodox beliefs and my child's mothers as well that was no questions or discussions this was made all amongst the seamen's Society staff and the kinship parents I will be pursuing legal lawsuit against this organization for violating my rights and my child's religious freedom rights they committed the biggest sin in my religion and my Rabbi in our community is outraged and they also bring my son to their own clinic and do this for insurance purposes they tried to diagnose him as autistic when the boy is very bright and alert I was provided a free attorney and told to plead guilty under false pretenses that I neglected my son which is not true hire a private attorney save your child do not deal with these people they're not your friends they are thieves and Crooks

Rating: 1

Regina Ferguson-Glasper (Gee-Gee)
Aug 30, 2018

This foster care agency or childcare provider is the worse by far that’s ever been built and created. First off, these people don’t care about reuniting families back together at all. They will drag you through the mud and still report to family Court with lies to make you look horrible. Secondly, they all like to work underhanded and loves a conflict of interest between all parties. Thirdly, these workers all work together even with their attorneys that’s set before them to sabotage your children away from you. Fourth, they don’t care to help anyone with anything because in the end their goal is keep our black children and use them to their full advantage. Fifth, nobody does their job correctly and yet knows how to do an a full exact investigation on their job. Sixth, their lazy. Seventh, nobody answers their phones to call back or to inform you about you childcare and/or case if you have one in regards to ACS dealing with agency. Eighth, this agency is a big fraudulent organization to make themselves look good when all are human and all have done and probably still making mistakes whether it’s working here or in their outside life off the clock. So for anyone that see this post please help me shut this place down

Rating: 1

Emmanuel Osagiede
Mar 10, 2018

No compassion, they all about the money

Rating: 2