Childrens Home Society of New Jersey

Contact Information

771 North Pennsylvania Avenue
Morrisville, PA 19067
United States

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DayHours
Monday 9 AM-5 PM
Tuesday 9 AM-5 PM
Wednesday 9 AM-5 PM
Thursday 9 AM-5 PM
Friday 9 AM-5 PM
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed
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The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey was founded in 1894 and our mission was to find loving families for children, to protect children from harm, and to help parents find better ways to be parents so they can keep their children. It is our vision that all children have secure, caring families, and good health and function well cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally.

To this end, our programs include; behavioral health/ mental health, permanency planning, community/ neighborhood based services, school-based services, and early childhood and parent education services. We provide services for children and parents at risk, including prevention, support, childcare, referral, and treatment. Our programs address the developmental continuum from pre-natal to adult.


Services and information

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

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.


Ratings and Reviews

Average user rating

4.4 / 5
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Caroline Flamos
Nov 29, 2022

We feel so lucky to have worked with The Children's Home Society of NJ. I can't say enough nice things about working with Valerie and Dana who seamlessly guided my husband & I through the intricate process of becoming adoptive parents. They were patient and kind to us throughout the stress of the many hoops to jump through and paperwork. At the end of the day, we would not be a family without them and we literally owe the love of our life to them- our son. They are compassionate in their handling of situations with birthmoms and in fact do a ton of advocacy in order to prevent birthmoms from having to place their baby before making an adoption plan. I truly recommend them to anyone wanting to find a way to become an adoptive parent ethically.

Rating: 5

Tanika Maxwell
Jul 01, 2021

We could not have been referred to a better organization for our families adoption process. The immeasurable amount of support, care, compassion, and patience Valerie had for our family will never go unnoticed. She was with us every step of the way and made everything extremely easy to handle through such a rigorous process. Because of her expert guidance and love for families like mine, we were able to finalize our adoption!! Thank your to Valerie and the CHS staff. I hope you receive ten times more than what you give to families like ours ❤️.

Rating: 5

Helen Jorge
Mar 09, 2020

taking into account that they hired me to be an infant teacher in a child care center from 0 to 3 years old in 2020 when that center will open hopefully in 2021 of they have lucky,in other ordered they put me to do something that had nothing to do whit the position I'm apply on top of that I had to lie because I have to call the families apply for the center to offer a different program like are you seriously that people apply for the center because need to work they not have time for a home visitor if the want a home visitor they apply for that I think so. they didn't call them they put me to call and lie,plus that poor employee have to takes 15 years for acquire a manager position there also don't forget It doesn't matter if you are studying your career they require you to study the one that looks good for them ,plus there to charge for each person who uses their resources and put employees to invest in the stock exchange to increase their income, after all that if this company looks cool Good luck to the employees have good benefits but made you keep you and the same place or growing in his way 15 years ladies and gentlemen for b . Manager poor person in 15 years I going to have my own business :()

Rating: 1

Sherrilynn Ayers
Mar 08, 2018

I love this agency, my family was first introduced when my daughter passed away and not from natural causes leaving behind 2 young daughters, so I hope you can vision the pain we was going through, after receiving treatment services we was able to start healing at least shown how to start. From there I have contacted the agency for my foster children and we love them. Thank you don't know if I can mention any names but the Ayers Family appreciate you all.

Rating: 5

Wendy Acevedo
Oct 29, 2013

(Translated by Google) Very good place, they help you a lot and there are very good people. Some of them are Ashley Sashira Eliane Vilma and I don't remember the other names but they are very good people

(Original)
Muy buen lugar lo ayudan mucho a uno y hay muy buenas personas Ai unas de ellas son Ashley Sashira Eliane vilma y no me acuerdo los demás nombres pero son muy buenas personas

Rating: 5