TAMMY ANGELINI NAMED ALDERSGATE FOSTER CARE CASEWORKER

Date Posted: Fri Jun 8th, 2007

Willow Grove, PA: Aldersgate Youth Service Bureau (“Aldersgate”), a community social service agency established 35 years ago to assist children, individuals, and their families in Eastern Montgomery County, recently named Tammy Angelini its newest, full-time foster care caseworker.

Aldersgate’s foster care program provides temporary, safe, and secure family placement for children unable to live with birth parents due to adjudicated abuse or neglect. Foster care programming provides ongoing, vital support and counseling services for children and their families. Aldersgate strives to reunite each child with his or her birth family. When that reunification isn’t possible, the program successfully places foster care children with relatives or non-related adoptive families. Under certain circumstances, foster care families can adopt foster children outright.

Tammy Angelini, a resident of Trevose, comes to Aldersgate having worked most recently as a residential summer camp counselor at local non-profits. A graduate from Cedarville University in Ohio, Angelini holds a BA in psychology and a minor in criminal justice. She anticipates attending Philadelphia Biblical University for graduate coursework in Christian counseling. “This is exactly where I want to be,” Angelini said. “Working with children and their families at Aldersgate, feeling a part of a team, and doing meaningful, life-directing work.”

Aldersgate’s staff takes a comprehensive, hands-on approach working with every child and his or her biological and foster care families – taking the time to go beyond typical casework responsibilities and interactions. Foster care families and children at Aldersgate receive continuing support through frequent home-based visits and a 24-hour emergency hotline service.

Referrals for foster care come from Montgomery, Bucks, and Philadelphia counties for children birth through age 18. A tremendous need for local foster care parents continually grows — especially for those who can care for new-borns, sibling groups, teenagers, children with disabilities, and those with special medical needs.
Since the 1970s, Aldersgate has placed hundreds of kids in qualified foster care homes. Today, many families actively participate and more are recruited each month. Aldersgate NEEDS and continually seeks local, committed couples or individuals: willing to work directly with a needy child; able to envision kids thriving in foster care homes; supportive of efforts to return that child home; able to work with children who might have significant emotional, medical, or behavioral needs; and who are dedicated to encouraging teens toward independent living.

For more information about foster care services at Aldergate, please contact: Natopha Forbes, Foster Care Program Coordinator, at 215.657.4545 or email her at natopha.forbes@aldersgateservices.org.

Aldersgate Youth Service Bureau supports area residents’ mental health and emotional well being through the provision of individual, family, and marital counseling, foster care placement, drug and alcohol prevention education and programming in area schools and the community at-large, and community outreach services which target at-risk minority youth. To learn more about the agency and its different programs, or to make a donation, please visit Aldersgate online at www.aldersgateservices.org.