Permanency

The Permanency Services Department is comprised of eight Foster Care Units and one Adoption Unit. The primary role of this department is to ensure that each child is in a safe and nurturing environment while awaiting a stable, loving and permanent home either by way of reunification with their birth family or by way of adoption. 

 Our commitment to ensuring that we provide safe and loving foster home environments to our children is evidenced by our Agency mandate to visit the children in their living environment at least once a month while the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) mandate is once every sixty days. We exercise a high level of diligence to ensure that our foster children are safe and secure as they interact with every member who resides in or frequents the home. This is achieved by these individuals being fingerprinted and receiving clearance from the State Central Register for any prior criminal history that could adversely affect our children.

 KINSHIP FOSTER CARE:

Two of our Foster Care Units are comprised of children that are placed with family members. These are our Kinship Units. Edwin Gould is committed to placing children with identified appropriate kinship resources as we value the endless benefits of relative care giving. Kinship placements provide continuity, stability and preserve family ties. Family members also have more insight and knowledge around the child’s development, likes, dislikes, cultural traditions, and overall family history.

 COMMUNITY-BASED FOSTER CARE:

Edwin Gould’s community-based Foster Care Units provide services in (8) community districts within New York City. CD’s are listed as follows:

BROOKLYN

  1. Brooklyn CD 3 (Bedford Stuyvesant)- serviced by Classon Ave; Units 1, 2 and 3
  2. Brooklyn CD 4 (East New York)- serviced by Classon Ave: Units 1,2, and 3
  3. Brooklyn CD5 (Fort Greene)- serviced by Classon Ave: Units 1,2, and 3
  4. Brooklyn CD 6 (Red Hook)- serviced by Classon Ave: Units 1,2, and 3
  5. Brooklyn CD  8 (North Crown Heights)- serviced by Classon Ave Units 1, 2 and 3
  6. Brooklyn CD 16 (Oceanville/Brownsville)- serviced by Classon Ave Units 1, 2 and 3

 

NEW YORK

  1. Manhattan CD 11 (East Harlem)- serviced by the East Harlem Unit 
  2. Manhattan CD 10 (Harlem)-serviced by the East Harlem Unit 
  3. Manhattan CD 3 (Lower East Side)- serviced by the East Harlem Unit 

 

BRONX

  1. Bronx CD 1 (Mott Haven) – serviced by Bronx Units 1 and 2 
  2. Bronx CD 2 (Morrisania)- serviced by Bronx Units 1 and 2 
  3. Bronx CD 3 (Huntspoint)-serviced by Bronx Units 1 and 2  

 

PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT

From the moment a child enters into foster care with EGSCF, the Agency works diligently to support parents in the removal of all barriers that would prevent children from returning home as quickly as possible. Our objective is to provide permanency in a timely manner thereby reducing our children’s length of stay in foster care. Keeping in line with ACS Commissioner Mattingly’s One-Year Home Campaign, our case planners and supervisors along with ACS devise service plans that are tailored to each parent’s and children’s specific needs. Tailoring a service plan correctly is a crucial component to reducing a child’s length of stay in care. Edwin Gould achieved reunifications of 360 children in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010. 

Clink link to view: One Year Home November 2010 Quarter Data