The Children’s Home of Reading (CHOR) has evolved into a multi-faceted social service nonprofit offering over 45 specialized mental health, trauma-focused residential, educational, and community-based programs to help over 3,300 at-risk children and their families each year.

Today, the services provided are trauma focused and treatment-oriented because the children who pass through our doors face serious barriers to success. They come to us with serious mental health, behavioral challenges, and educational needs.
They come to us abused, neglected, and afraid. They come to us without hope. While some have loving families that just don’t know how to help their children get through these difficult days, many of them have not experienced childhood in the way that most of us do.
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Programs:  
Acute Partial Hospitalization Programs in Schuylkill and Berks counties
Foster Care Program
Specialized Foster Care Program
Adoption Program
Post Permanency Program
Lehigh Valley In-Home Program
Evening Reporting Center in Reading 
Cardy Day Academy
Centre Ave. Academy
Girls and Boys Psychological Residential Treatment Programs
Specialized Residential Treatment Programs
Extended School Year Program


Non Profit

The Children's Home of Reading - Building Kids Lives since 1884

LaSorsa

Vincent Lasorsa

The Youth and Family Services team at The Children’s Home of Reading provides comprehensive support for at-risk children and their families. Comprising licensed clinical social workers, family interventionists, mental health clinicians, and specialized youth care workers, the team delivers trauma-focused and treatment-oriented programs. Their efforts encompass a range of services including acute partial hospitalization, foster care, adoption, residential treatment, and educational programs, aiming to address serious mental health, behavioral challenges, and the unique needs of each child to pave the way for a hopeful and successful future.

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