Samaritan Counseling Center

Founded in 1953, Delaware Guidance Services is the United Way of Delaware agency that provides mental health care services for children, youths and their families. Its services include psychological and psychiatric evaluation, individual, group and family counseling, parenting education, family and school liaison work and medication. The agency focuses on various areas, such as behavioral problems, family conflicts, divorce-related issues, school troubles, domestic violence and substance abuse. It contracts with various school districts throughout Delaware to provide guidance and mental health care services. Delaware Guidance Services operates several clinics and employs a team of child psychiatrists and psychologists, clinical social workers and advanced nurse practitioners. The agency maintains a location in Wilmington, Del.

CONCERN is a private, nonprofit, community-based child welfare agency, founded in 1978, to serve abused, neglected, abandoned and delinquent children and youths. It offers services through a range of programs, including foster care, adoption, counseling, community life skills and delinquency services. The agency s foster care for children with disabilities program provides homes as an alternative to hospitalization for children up to 21 years of age with acute and chronic physical and other disabilities. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare and the Maryland Department of Human Resources and is affiliated with the Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network. The agency is located in Fleetwood, Pa.