Pinebrook Family Services.
At Pinebrook Family Answers our dedicated professionals are are committed to providing quality services to vulnerable families residing in the Greater Lehigh Valley and beyond. Qualified and highly-skilled, our staff and resource parents are recognized in the community for their commitment to helping children and families in need. They not only play a critical role in the lives of the children, young adults, families, and seniors we serve, but in the successful outcomes they achieve.Pinebrook Family Answers goal is to help families become healthy and flourish through services & programs to overcome challenges & succeed in life.Since 1998, Pinebrook Family Answers has been providing Special-Needs, Domestic and International Adoption Services for prospective parents looking to provide children with a loving, safe home. Our adoption professionals have found “Forever Families” for hundreds of infants, toddlers, and children.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency 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
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Apr 18, 2023
Love this place
Mar 02, 2023
Thank you all for your review. I was looking for service for my son , individual and family therapy. When the intake person call me back, she told me that they don't expect my insurance and the long process I will have to take if I want there service. I thank God I look over these review. I will do anything for my son and will had done the process to get in there. I thank God and does wrote these review I am not going here. I had a bad felling when the intake lady ( who says her full name including here middle name, smh , who does that but a snotty person) will not let me get a word in.
Thank you all who wrote there experience here. Mental Health is a big part of our health.
Jan 04, 2023
They have a very large therapist turnover. It's hard when transitioning is one of the behavioral issues.
Dec 06, 2022
it's 2022 and time for in-person visits to start back for therapy, it's a little ridiculous that everything is done via video visit especially pertaining to mental health
Oct 27, 2022
If I could give this place zero stars I would. The therapist and the psychiatrist I have are great, they are kind and courteous and do their best. The office staff is HORRID. Not once have they sent a single prior authorization form to my insurance company, despite 8 months of attempting to get them to do it. They don't return voicemails, and none of their phone options let you actually speak to a person, you have to leave a voicemail. They don't return emails either.
I have, on multiple occasions, had to go weeks without medications because they refuse to send in the prior auth that my psychiatrist made. They take sometimes weeks to return a call to make your next psych appointment and you have to have an appointment every single month because they don't put any refills on your scripts. I have requested multiple times for them to send copies of files to my general doctor, they won't even respond to my GP's inquiries even after signing releases on both ends. They won't respond to me asking for an emailed or printed copy of my file and diagnosis so that I can go to another psychiatrist's office that will actually talk to me.
Truly the worst office staff I have ever dealt with.