Permanency Resource Center
Supporting adoptive, kinship, and guardianship families
Northern Rivers’ Permanency Resource Center helps families formed through adoption, kinship (formal and informal custody) and guardianship find necessary resources for the variety of issues and needs that arise when children join their family. The Permanency Resource Center supports adoptive, kinship, and postguardianship families (including grandparents), empowering them for growth and enabling positive outcomes for all involved. Our workers have extensive knowledge and lived experience parenting children with emotional, mental health, and trauma-based needs.
This program is funded through a grant from the New York Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) for families residing in Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, and Washington Counties.
How We Can Help
Our knowledgeable professionals can provide families with:
- An understanding the crises adopted children and youth in kinship and guardianship face, as well as strategies to help parents and caregivers with challenges along with emotional support for navigating the complexities that adoptive, kinship, and guardianship families face
- A connection to services, providers, and trainings tailored to those who have adopted or who have children in kinship or guardianship care
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Assistance in meeting the needs of youth so that the family can avoid out-of-home placements
Available Services
- A helpline available is available by calling 518.426.2888 or by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for information and referrals
- Case management to help families access services
- Support groups for parents, caregivers, and guardians currently done through Zoom virtual meetings
- Activities for families both in person and through Zoom virtual meeting
- Training opportunities for parents, cargivers, and professionals
- Support to access appropriate educational needs
- Short-term therapy for any member of the guardianship or kinship family with program clinician
- Referral to local adoptive, guardianship, and kinship-sensitive practitioners and clinicians who provide a variety of services to families who have adopted or have children in guardianship or kinship care.
Who Is Eligible?
Families who have an adopted or kinship youth younger than age 21 still living at home or who have legal guardianship or a kinGAP agreement for a child younger than age 21 living at home and who reside in Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, or Washington County are eligible for services.
Getting Started and Inquiries
Interested families should call our team at 518.426.2888, and we will be happy to talk about enrolling you in our program.
For more information on these services, call 518.426.2888 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We are committed to responding to inquiries as quickly as possible.
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