Program Summary for the Child Welfare Division
FSS’s Child Welfare division serves families with very young children. Our programs are aimed at reducing child abuse and neglect, and improving children’s health. All are designed to offer parenting education and support to families living in the city of Philadelphia.

Family School, is a center-based parenting education program that works with parents and their children, birth to five, to address child abuse and neglect. The center is in Southwest Philadelphia.

Family Partnership is a voluntary, home visiting, preventive program for families with young children.

SAFE (Services to Assist Families Excel) is a health-related, home-visiting initiative in Southwest Philadelphia. Our social workers help families to promote positive health outcomes for their babies and toddlers (birth to 5 years).

SCOH (Services to Children in their Own Homes) is a home visiting program for families with children (birth to five.) Its goal is to prevent placement of children in foster care.

Program Summary for the Early Intervention Division
Our Early Intervention (EI) programs use EI teachers and individualized speech, physical and occupational therapy to overcome, or reduce, developmental delays in birth to five year-old children.

The Penn Early Childhood Program provides individualized specialized therapy in the child’s natural environment to help children with a 25% developmental delay reach their potential. The program is divided according to ages of children served; Birth-to-Three Services and Three-to-Five Services.

The Fairmount Early Intervention Center is a center-based program that provides specialized therapy to three-to-five year-old children with at least a 25% developmental delay.

Program Summary for School-based Childcare
Our fee-for-service School-based Childcare program supports suburban families through an interesting, educational, and fun half-day, Kindergarten-age program that complements the Haverford and Radnor School District’s kindergarten curricula.

We also offer recreational before and after-school programs, with homework supervision, from 7:30 am to 6 pm daily (times vary by site).

We are state-licensed, our Radnor sites are NSACA accredited, and we are working on State accreditation (Keystone Stars) for all the sites.