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Addressing the stressors families face leads to happier, healthier childhoods.
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When families or children have a crisis and need help to stabilize and find a path to a brighter future, they come to Forestdale. Forestdale immediately assists families with parenting, prevention, fostering, material assistance, health, career, and educational support.  Our services then go beyond the immediate crisis to help families become the families they want to be.  We are dedicated to individual children and families but also to ending intergenerational trauma and poverty.  Since 1854, we are family when families need us.   
Preventive Services - Family
Foster Care - Family
Strong Futures - Chilldren studying science
Strong Mothers - Mother with Daughter
Strong Fathers- Father with son fishing
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Contact Us

Feel free to contact us with any questions. If this is an urgent matter, please reach out directly to the program you wish to contact. 

Email
development@forestdaleinc.org

Phone
(718) 263-0740

From Our Social Media

We are grateful to Ridgewood Savings Bank for a donation to our holiday toy drive for children in foster care and preventive programs. Please help us reach our goals and donate (see bio) or buy toys off our Amazon list at https://tinyurl.com/toys4fos
30,000 Legal orphans in the US foster care system need permanent families where they can thrive. Adopted children are more likely than their non-adopted peers to be read to, sung to, told stories, share meals with their family daily, and participate
Forestdale's staff is so creative! Here are just a few participants in our staff Halloween competition. #Halloween #Forestdaleinc
Think of your family's and community's future - exercise your right to vote. Government policy influences the quality of education, healthcare, housing, and social support. Let your voice be heard and register to vote at https://vote.gov/register/new
Join us on Wednesday, October 23rd! We build community safety when we support and protect young people. We celebrate Youth Justice Action Month with a call to allies across #NYS. Time to pass the #Right2RemainSilent youth interrogation bill and the #