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Foster Care

Foster Boarding Home

Bronx, NY

www.goodshepherds.org

GSV Role

There are 2 GSV at Foster Boarding Home.

They go on home visits to foster families, facilitate recreational activities, outings, and workshops for foster children, and assist individual children with court appointments, visits to their biological family, and other errands. The GSV also assist caseworkers with case management and counseling for the children and parents.

boy Foster Boarding Home provides safe, temporary care in the homes of trained kinship or resource (foster) parents to children and adolescents who have been removed from their birth families because of possible abuse or neglect. They work intensively with birth parents or caretakers to get them the help they need to resolve the issues that led to placement and be reunited with their children.

Foster consists of a multidisciplinary team including caseworkers, an Educational/Vocational Specialist, a nurse, Independent Living Coordinator and a Job/Career Specialist, who work together to provide youth development, substance abuse, educational, medical, and other services designed specifically for the youth in the foster care program, as well as an aftercare program to continue providing needed services following discharge or aging out of the program.

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