Breaking the Cycle of Abuse Through Early Intervention
Serenity provides quality foster homes and support services to help foster children, their biological parents, and our foster families.
About Serenity
Serenity is a foster and adoption program at David & Margaret with a mission to break the cycle of abuse through early intervention programs for child victims and their biological families. Serenity’s goal is to provide healing to children and restoration to families through the provision of treatment, resources, and quality care. Serenity demonstrates through its programming that abused infants and very young children can overcome attachment and bonding issues, developmental delays, and emotional scarring using therapeutic strategies in a healthy nurturing environment. Serenity provides quality foster care homes for abused, abandoned, and neglected children in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Serenity supports the Continuum of Care Reform vision that seeks for all children to live with a committed, permanent, and nurturing family with strong community connections. In most instances, reunifying with their biological family is the primary goal. When it appears that reunification efforts have failed, Serenity supports establishing a concurrent plan identifying a secondary permanent home meeting the needs of the child.
In support of this philosophy, Serenity became licensed as an Adoption Agency in 2006 to “dually prepare” foster parents for adoption of the children placed in their home, if reunification is not possible.
Services Provided:
- Initial and ongoing training
- Training for biological children of foster parents
- Assistance with arranging of respite care for foster children as needed
- Facilitation of in-person and virtual support group monthly meetings
- 3-4 visitations a month by a Serenity social worker
- 24/7 emergency assistance
- Inclusion in formulation of child’s treatment plan and assistance in implementation
- Social/recreational family activities (agency picnics, holiday celebrations)
- Positive foster parent recognition
- Foster Parent Mentoring Program
