New Alternatives for Children (NAC) Adoption and Kinship Support– Permanency Resource Center (PRC)

37 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10010
Main Phone: (212) 696-1550
Fax: (212) 696-1602

Bronx Office:
1775 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10453
Phone: (212) 696-1552
Fax: (929) 232-6477
Email:info@NacKidsCan.org
Website:https://www.nackidscan.org/home/index.php

Permanency Resource Center
Program Contact: Director, Samantha Callaghan, LMSW
Phone: (646) 367-8417
Cellphone: (646) 531-0608
Fax: (929) 273-7908
Email:scallaghan@nackidscan.org

Jessica M. Chavarria-Remache, LSW
Supervisor of Adoption and Kinship Support
New Alternatives for Children, Inc.
37 West 26th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (646) 352-9091 Ext. 481
Cell: (347)514-1155
E-Fax: 929-273-7816
jchavarria@nackidscan.org

Program Contact: Associate Executive Director, Patricia Bryant-Reid, LCSW-R
Phone: (212) 696-1550 ext. 282
Fax: (929) 273-7887
Email:pbreid@nackidscan.org

Counties Served:  NAC’s Permanency Resource Center serves post adoption and post guardianship families all five New York City boroughs.

The NAC Family Permanency Center offers families formed through adoption or guardianship, a place where they can find support, advocacy, information, and a range of professional health and social services needed to help them create or maintain a successful and permanent home. The main goals of these services is to prevent post-adoptive and post-guardianship dissolutions/disruptions, provide assistance to families so that children may be cared for in their own homes with their adoptive parent(s) or legal guardian(s), and strengthen post-adoptive and post-guardianship families.

• Services Include:
  - In-Home Comprehensive Support
  -  Family-Focused Needs Assessment
  -  Trauma Assessment/Screening
  -  Information, Advocacy and Referral
  -  Navigation Assistance for Cross-System Needs
  -  Education Support and Advocacy
  -  Mental Health and Medical Services
  -  Crisis Intervention
  -  Adoption Support Group (Virtual)
  -  Takes place bi-weekly (dates/times subject to caregiver’s availability)
  -  Contact Samantha Callaghan for more information
  -  Psychoeducational Groups
  • Art Therapy Outreach Center Self-Care Groups
    Takes place every other Friday at 11am
    -   Contact Samantha Callaghan for more information

Program eligibility:

Post Legal Adoption Network

• Children must be freed for adoption to receive services.

Post Permanency Support Program

• Children and families who are within 90-days of exiting the NYC foster care system via adoption or kinship guardianship.
• Children who have already been adopted or exited foster care to kinship guardianship via the NYC foster care system and their families.

Family Permanency Center

• Adoptive Families who have finalized the adoption of their child. This includes private placement adoptions and international adoptions.
• Guardianship Families including Kinship caregivers who have legal guardianship of the child and an approved KinGAP agreement or families with legal guardianship without a KinGAP agreement

NAC Permanency Resource Center Program Referral

NAC Adoption and Kinship Support Brochure

A New York State Office of Children and Family Services Kinship Caregivers Program