Children's Home of Pittsburgh
Contact Information
5324 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
United States
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Pittsburgh, PA 15224
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | Open 24 hours |
| Tuesday | Open 24 hours |
| Wednesday | Open 24 hours |
| Thursday | Open 24 hours |
| Friday | Open 24 hours |
| Saturday | Open 24 hours |
| Sunday | Open 24 hours |
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Our Mission
The Children’s Home & Lemieux Family Center, established in 1893, is an independent, nonprofit organization with a mission to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services that establish and strengthen the family.
Our programs include Adoption & Permanency Services, Child’s Way®, the Pediatric Specialty Hospital, the Pediatric VIEW Program, and Counseling. In addition to these programs, we offer free housing for patients and families in our on-site Lemieux Family Center.
What We Strive For
Our staff works hard to ensure we provide caregiver education to families in our Pediatric Specialty Hospital, find permanent homes for infants and children through our Adoption & Permanency Services work, and provide a safe and happy educational space for the children we serve at our Child’s Way daycare. We provide unique services and specialized programming that our region's children and families rely on daily.
Our History
The work of The Children’s Home began in 1893 as The Pennsylvania Children’s Home Society. The organization was founded to care for and place homeless children in permanent homes, at the time, an early adoption model meant to substitute institutional orphanages.
The Adoption Program still thrives today after 127 years of operation. In the 1980s and 1990s, The Children’s Home added two distinct, innovative medical programs to further the continuum of care for children. The Pediatric Specialty Hospital (formerly Transitional Infant Care) opened in 1984 to provide a new model of sub-acute care for infants and their families; in 2007, this model was expanded to include patients up to age twenty-one with a wide variety of diagnoses. In 1998, Child’s Way® was established as a daycare for medically fragile children, becoming the first licensed Pediatric Extended Care Center in Pennsylvania. In 2012, The Children’s Home successfully advocated on behalf of families to the Pennsylvania legislature to raise the age of those eligible for Child’s Way to 21. Also, in 2012, The Children’s Home became a Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network affiliate as part of a patchwork of government and nonprofit agencies helping children in foster care achieve permanency.
Today, Child’s Way, the Pediatric Specialty Hospital, and Adoption services are more established than ever, helping nearly 400 families annually. In addition to these services, we’ve also added counseling and the Pediatric VIEW Program.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
You must meet minimum requirements to provide foster care in Pennsylvania. Foster parents for children in need must:
- Be a minimum of 21 years old
- Pass a criminal background check with fingerprinting
- Have time and energy to devote to fostering
- Live in a safe and healthy environment
- Prove good health through a medical examination/physical
- Maintain financial stability
- Clear all home safety requirements
- Complete required pre-service training hours
- Finish the Home Inspection
After fulfilling all requirements during the approval process, licensed foster parents can welcome a foster child into their home. To maintain a valid license, foster parents must also participate in ongoing training each year.
All adults who are living in homes with foster children in Pennsylvania must pass a required criminal background check and fingerprinting. This includes adult children who are family members living at home.
There are other, more detailed requirements for foster homes, such as having a flushing toilet and an operable phone. Prospective foster parents will learn more details during foster parent orientation.
Once you've decided to foster, you can contact a public or private foster agency or the Pennsylvania State Resource Family Association. Foster agencies screen and train prospective foster families and ensure applicants are good candidates for foster care.
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