Post Adoption Help for Families
|Crisis Links/Hotline Numbers| |Resources/Information Web Sites| |Services for Children & Families|

The Office of Children and Family Services is committed to identifying connections to the services most frequently sought by adoptive families in need of support. The contacts listed are intended to cover the broadest range of needs. In this, as in much of the advocacy you do for yourselves, be aware of how the response feels to you. If something does not appear to be meeting your family’s needs, try a different provider or even a different direction.

Crisis Links/Hotline Numbers

Toll Free Hotline Telephone Numbers:

1. 2-1-1
2. 3-1-1 (New York City only)
3. Life Net: 1-800-LifeNet (1-800-543-3638) (English)
   • 1-877-Ayudese (1-877-298-3373) (Spanish)
   • 1-877-990-8585 (Asian Life Net)
   • 1-212-982-5284 (TTY) 
4. National Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-800-442-HOPE (4673)
5. Boys Town Suicide and Crisis Line: 1-800-448-3000  or 1-800-448-1833 (TDD)
6. National Runaway Switchboard: 1-800-621-4000
7. Advocates for Children (Education)  Helpline: 1-866-427-6033 (M-F, New York City only)

*** If you or someone you know is currently in immediate danger of being harmed, we urge you to call 911 now.

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children
• New York Office of  Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, (OASAS)
• National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice & Permanency Planning
• Office  of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
• Life Net
• Center for the Improvement of Child Caring, (CICC)
• New York State Department of Education- Resource for Parents
• New York State Office of Mental Health – Mental Health Resources for the Public
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of New York State (NAMI-NYS)
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• New York State Education Department; No Child Left Behind Act
• Spence-Chapin
• Resources for Children with Special Needs
• Families Together in NYS, Inc
• Parent to Parent of New York State
• NYS Kinship Navigator Program

Services for Children & Families

1.) Albany Region

• Parsons Child and Family Services (2 Programs)

2.) Buffalo Region

• New Directions Youth and Family Services
• Hillside Children’s Services

3.) New York City

• New York Council on Adoptable Children
• Life Net
• Spence-Chapin Post Adoption Services
• Association of Black Social Workers
• Catholic Guardian Society
• Leake and Watts
• Little Flower Children and Family Services
• NY Council on Adoptable Children
• New Alternatives for Childre
• Jewish Child Care Association of NY
• St. Vincent’s Services

4.) Rochester

• Hillside Children’s Services

5.) Syracuse

• Salvation Army

6.) Yonkers

• Abbott House