“It was the first time I could talk about my family”INDEPENDENT LIVING YOUTH
Pennsylvania’s Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) is a broad-based public and private partnership that has helped thousands of Pennsylvania children find the families they need and deserve.
SWAN’s work supports the state’s child welfare agencies so children in custody can move more easily and rapidly into their permanent families. Developed and funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, this network now includes the state’s 67 public children and youth agencies, judges, adoptive and foster parents, private adoption and foster care agencies and other child advocates.
Since 2000, the SWAN contract has been managed by Family Design Resources (FDR) in partnership with Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries. Diakon provides fiscal oversight, while FDR focuses on the programs and services that children and families receive.
FDR’s staff of more than 100 professionals work with the state to secure permanency for the children who wait for homes of their own. Our staff is located throughout Pennsylvania to better provide technical assistance and consultation wherever it is needed.
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