Kinship Family and Youth Services is a division of Catholic Charities of Rochester, Inc. a 501(c) (3) corporation organized pursuant to Chapter 26 of the Laws of 1917 of the State of New York.

Kinship Family and Youth Services was established in 1972 and is licensed by both the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) and the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services. Kinship Family and Youth Services has a thirty year history of providing OCFS sanctioned in-home family preservation (preventive) services, therapeutic foster care, child health care, and parenting skills education throughout the Finger Lakes and Western Regions of New York State.

Our Mission is to strengthen and preserve family life for each of its members. We view foster care, not as an “end product” of a failed family. It is a temporary resource that can, and should be used to assure the safety and well-being of the child, and family and community, but only until the essential resources and services can be instituted that will assist the family to meet the permanency needs of their child.