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
The heart of our mission is to partner with those we serve, and with those who fund or refer to our interventions and supports to help children, youth, families, and others to meet their challenges and to more effectively navigate their lives. I am regularly awed by our wonderful staff and our incredible foster parents who do these things with both graciousness and humility. While those we serve are the heart of Cayuga Centers, our staff and foster parents are our soul. They are the Cayuga Centers difference. This report reflects on our last year to both remind us of what we have done and to challenge ourselves to do it – and more – again. Those we serve deserve both our inspiration and our perspiration and our staff and foster parents deliver both which helps us change lives.
Help Us in Our Mission
Every voice raised helps show what quality foster care looks like.
Every child raised with love changes the world.