Edwin Gould Services for Children & Families

for more than 75 years, edwin gould’s community of care has addressed the complex, and often overwhelming, issues that confront society today. rooted in a history of services focused on the needs of orphaned children during the early years of the twentieth century, our programming now includes a comprehensive array of services incorporating evidence-based practices to address those in need across the life-span. our cornerstone foster care and adoption services are joined by community-based preventive services designed to assist at-risk families; programming focused on the prevention of domestic violence, intervention to assist victims of such violence, and advocacy toward policy change; criminal justice services; school-based programs; health and mental health services; economic empowerment programming; and group living environments for developmentally disabled adults who wish to live independently. our programs include the award- winning steps to end family violence, a nationally reco