Albany County Expecting Parents & Infants

CMS provides community-based and residential programs that enhance the dignity, quality, and sanctity of human life through individualized social services and community education programs. The program offers a continuum of care for pregnant adolescents and young parents, including case management, goal-directed counseling, childbirth education, parent education, support, and advocacy, foster care residential programs, prevention/supports for families at risk, adoption, kinship, and respite services.

CMS PROGRAMS:

Capital Region Outreach Services
Case planning, home-based parent education, and clinical services are provided for Albany County residents referred through the County for Prevention Services. A Parent Education Group for parents with a mental health diagnosis is also offered.

Farano Center for Children
Provides congregate care services for children ranging in age from birth to 18. Services include: assessment and evaluations, respite services, placement for children with developmental, psychiatric, or severe behavioral problems, health care coordination, social work services, behavior modification and case management, and other related treatment services.

Adoption Services
This program screens, educates, and certifies foster parents residing within the 14 counties of the Diocese. Supervision, case planning and permanency services for children placed in CMS certified homes are also offered. Adoptive families are screened and approved for the adoption of domestic, healthy infant adoption; adoption of waiting children, or children with special physical or emotional needs; home study; post placement; and US finalization for internationally-born children.

Heery Center for Young Families
Provides trauma-informed residential services for pregnant and parenting adolescents between the ages of 12 and 21, who have been placed in the care and custody of their county as a result of parental abuse/neglect, PINS/JD behaviors, or other circumstances that have placed them and their children at risk of harm. The goal of this program is to provide a wide range of services to promote safety, education, and stability.

Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP)
Provides a resource for young women who have developed self-sufficiency skills and are ready to transition to a less-restrictive environment. The program provides adult supervision, feedback, and guidance as the youth transitions to an agency-operated apartment in the community - this enables the young woman to continue her education, acquire employment, or attend job skills training in a supportive and therapeutic setting. Such support includes: case management, financial assistance, childcare services, advocacy, and social work support.