Our Mission
To help children, families and individuals to grow as independent, healthy and productive citizens through quality counseling, out-of-home care and support services. We do this in partnership with those we serve as well as government agencies and other service providers.
We embrace Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).
We do this by taking a firm stance against hatred, inequality, bias, and injustice. We do this by providing our staff with the training, coaching, and resources necessary to grow and serve with cultural humility, acceptance, and understanding. We are responsive to the diverse needs of those we serve and staff, and are committed to ensuring that everyone feels respected, valued, and a sense of belonging.
Approved by the Cayuga Centers Board of Trustees April 26, 2023; Updated, January 31, 2024
Cayuga Centers is nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA) and has been accredited since 2000. Organizations pursue accreditation to demonstrate the implementation of best practice standards in the field of human services. COA evaluated all aspects of Cayuga Centers’ programs, services, management, and administration and affirmed that we have implemented best practices throughout our organization.
What We Do
Home and Community-Based Treatment and Support (HCBTS)
Foster Care
Unaccompanied Children Services
Respite
Services
Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability Supports
Mandated
Preventive
Services
From the Annual Report
Our staff and our foster parents are there. Standing side-by-side in partnership with those we serve, they are physically in our foster homes, in the living rooms of those we bring at-home services to, in community schools and community centers, in our program sites, in the courtroom and the social services offices and on the streets. Our staff are there delivering high-quality, evidence-based interventions and supports with respect.
In this last year, our staff has delivered in-person services to over 17,000 youth and families in all 50 states. And they will do this again this year.
Help Us in Our Mission
Every voice raised helps show what quality foster care looks like.
Every child raised with love changes the world.