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Causes: Children & Youth, Foster Care
Mission: The mission of serenity is to break the cycle of child abuse through prevention and early intervention services for children and their families by providing quality foster home, individual and group counseling services and adoptions.
Programs: Serenity is a licensed foster family agency which recruits, trains and certifies quality foster families to care for foster children birth to age 18. Master's level social work staff supervise each certified home,develop needs and services plan for each child, make regularly scheduled and surprise home visits and provide referrals within serenity's programs and to the community for additional resources. Additionally, medically fragile infants requiring specialized in-home care are placed in certified homes of parents specifically trained to meet their needs.
serenity's adoption services include permanent plannning for children who are relinquished or otherwise free for placement through our "adoptions through foster care" program. Serenity is able to place children in a stable home enviroment which could ultimately be their "forever" home. This program evaluates and approves adoptive homes, recruits appropriate adoptive families and provides post adoption services.