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The SCYAP Foster Care Program

The SCYAP Foster Care Program

The SCYAP Foster Care Program focuses on the power of family.  In a foster home, children who have suffered abuse and neglect, have the opportunity to share in healthy family relationships, to experience positive parenting, to learn and practice pro-social skills, and...

Former Foster Child With a Heart to Help

Former Foster Child With a Heart to Help

Rebecca Needham-Mortimer is a former foster child who was adopted while in the care of SCYAP in 1995. Now as an adult, Rebecca reached out to SCYAP in June of this year with the sweetest message of gratitude to her Treatment Coordinator at the time and to SCYAP as an...

Gratitude in Uncertain Times

Gratitude in Uncertain Times

Being grateful in uncertain times may seem difficult, and understandably so. Teaching lessons of gratitude to your children in these moments may be more valuable now than it ever has been in modern times. Children are watching every move their parents and caregivers...

Tis the Season to be Grateful

Tis the Season to be Grateful

The jokes and memes about Thanksgiving being overlooked circulate relentlessly this time of year and even though they are hilarious, do you know why they are everywhere? Because it is the absolute truth – Thanksgiving does get overlooked. How do we prevent this day...

Developing Supportive Communities for Our Children

Developing Supportive Communities for Our Children

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. What better time than this month to talk about how we can develop more supportive communities that will in turn help our children? When communities are supportive it creates a ripple effect of helpfulness and...

10 Reasons YOU Want (NEED) to Be a Foster Parent

10 Reasons YOU Want (NEED) to Be a Foster Parent

At SCYAP we wholeheartedly believe every child deserves to live with a loving family. Unfortunately, there are not enough foster families on a state or national scale to meet the need for the number of children who are in foster care to no fault of their own. For this...