Children's Services is the legally mandated Children and Youth Social Services Program in Huntingdon County. As such, the program is responsible for providing the following types of services:
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Services, such as counseling and parenting support, designed to keep children in their own homes; prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation; and help overcome problems that result in dependency and delinquency.
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Temporary, substitute placement in foster family homes and residential child care facilities for a child in need of the care.
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Services designed to reunite children and their families when children are in temporary, substitute care (i.e. counseling, homemaker and parenting support services.)
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Services to provide a permanent family for any child who cannot be returned to his or her home (i.e. adoption services).
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Services and care ordered by the count for children who have been adjudicated dependent or delinquent.
The Huntingdon County Children's Service Department is located in Annex II at 430 Penn Street, Huntingdon, PA. The mailing address and phone number are:
Huntingdon County Children's Service Department
Annex II
430 Penn Street
Huntingdon, PA 16652
(814) 643-3270
FAX: (814) 643-7323
E mail: jzolten@huntingdoncounty.net