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CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES

Contact Info

220 Main Street

Unit 1

Towanda, PA 18848

Debra Sharp, Director

Phone: (570) 265-1760 / (800) 326-8432

Fax: (570) 265-7066

Email: sharpd@BradfordCountyPA.gov

 

 

 

Hours:

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Services Provided

Children and Youth Services are responsible for administering programs in the following areas

  • Foster Care
  • Independent Living
  • Family Group Decision Making
  • Student Transition and Recovery Program
  • Parenting Classes
  • Sex Abuse Counseling and Referral Sources

If you have knowledge of abuse or neglect or are you at risk of abusing a child call:
Child Abuse Hot-line:
1-800-932-0313

Are you are witnessing abuse or neglect?
Call 911 Immediately!


 

Department Description

Children and Youth Services investigate situations where there are concerns that children are being neglected or abused. Allegations of abuse can be referred directly through the Child Abuse Hot-line at 1-800-932-0313. Abuse can be physical, sexual, or emotional. It also includes children who are at imminent risk of harm. Neglected children are children who are without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for their physical, mental or emotional development; children who have been abandoned by their parents; children who, while subject to compulsory school attendance, are habitually and without justification truant from school; children who have committed acts of habitual disobedience of the reasonable and lawful commands of their parents; are under the age of 18 and have committed a delinquent act.

It is the goal of Bradford County Children and Youth Services to avoid family separations whenever possible.

 

Bradford County CYS complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. 


2024 Advisory Board Dates:

February 20, 2024

April 16, 2024

June 18, 2024

August 20, 2024

October 15, 2024

December 17, 2024


Please contact Children & Youth Services administration to confirm the location in advance of each meeting if planning to attend.