Child Advocacy
The Children, Youth, and Families Division is responsible for planning and providing state-mandated social services to dependent and abused children and youth in Northampton County. These services include activities designed to prevent neglect, abuse, and exploitation and help overcome problems that result in dependency and abuse.
Services include:
- Protecting children from continued harm in their homes
- Temporary, substitute care in foster family homes or residential (24-hour) child care facilities for any child in need of such care
- Reuniting children and their families if children are placed in temporary substitute care
- Providing a permanent, legally assured family for any child in temporary, substitute care who cannot be returned to his/her home
- Court-ordered care or supervision to alleged or adjudicated dependent or abused children
The CYF Division also provides permanency services and supervised visitation. Services available for purchase include parenting education classes, counseling, foster care, group home care, residential care, life skills education, day care, day treatment, and supervised independent living.
The District Attorney’s Office is currently working on a trauma-intensive center, aiming to minimize interviews, in partnership with Lehigh University. Contact the office for more information.