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Lehigh
Valley Families Together, Inc. provides family
preservation and reunification services to children and
families in Lehigh and Northampton Counties. These
services include family case management, counseling,
foster care, education, and community-linking
activities. Our Allentown office is staffed by
responsive, understanding and enthusiastic team members
who bring solid experience and knowledge to providing
family services. We believe in the family as the key to
health, and we are driven to provide the finest in
customer service to our clients and referral agencies.
Mission
Our over-arching mission is to preserve the family
whenever possible. We do this in two areas.
1. If the children are living with their
biological/legal parents, we work within the family
providing intensive case management, counseling and
education. We connect them with traditional and
non-traditional community support services within their
neighborhoods so that families are empowered to thrive
even after our services end. Our goal is to nurture and
strengthen a strong family unit that is able to cope
with changes and challenges.
2. If children are not able to live with their
biological/legal parents, we work to reunify the family.
We provide foster care that ensures the children are
cared for in a safe and nurturing environment. We work
with the parent(s) to enact changes in their lives to
improve family relations, communication skills and
healthy lifestyles. Our goal is to shorten the length of
time children stay in foster care and help parents build
a family that will be stable, emotionally and physically
safe, and promote the well-being of all family members.
Managing Staff
Steve Brong, President/CEO
Steve Brong has been working in child welfare and mental
health fields since 1977. He founded LVFT in 2002 along
with Allyn Felker. Steve holds a master’s degree in
counseling from Shippensburg State College.
Allyn Felker, Vice President
Allyn Felker has been involved in working with adults
and children with mental health, mental retardation and
addiction issues since 1986. She has a master’s degree
in rehabilitation counseling from Penn State University.
Certification and Member Affiliations
Lehigh Valley Families Together, Inc. is a private,
nonprofit, 501(c) 3 social service agency providing
services to children and families in Lehigh and
Northampton Counties. We were incorporated in October
2002 and began operations on January 6, 2003. Programs
provided by LVFT include Family Preservation, Family
Reunification and Family Resource Care (foster care).
LVFT is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of
Public Welfare and is a service provider for Lehigh
County Children & Youth and Northampton County Children,
Youth & Families Division. We are a member of the
Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth & Family
Services and Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce. |
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