Recent News

• Jennifer Bornman Named Supervisor of the SWAN Helpline

  In December 2024, Jennifer Bornman was promoted to Supervisor of the SWAN Helpline following the retirement of long-time leader and mentor, Jan Scherer. With more than two decades of experience ...Read More
  

• 2025 PA Permanency Conference: A Celebration of Resilience, Connection, and Unconditional Love

  The Annual Pennsylvania Permanency Conference brings together child welfare professionals, families, and advocates to center what matters most: helping children and youth find safe, permanent, loving homes. The 2025 conference ...Read More
  

• Great Thoughts Lead to Great Actions

  “I truly believe in starting every day with a great thought. What we think about expands,” began Dr. John Gaines as he delivered the opening keynote presentation at the June ...Read More
  

• A New Resource to Empower Families

  Meaningful family engagement recognizes that families are the experts of their own experiences, assures their active role and voice, and empowers them to make joint decisions to ensure their children’s ...Read More
  

• Did you know June is National Reunification Month?

  Since 2012, June has been recognized as National Reunification Month, honoring the strength and resilience of families who reunite with the children they love. Reunification is a form of legal permanence, and ...Read More
  

• Fifth Annual Virtual Matching Event: Permanent Connections at the Touch of a Button

  Held annually since 2021, this event is a unique two-week online forum that allows agencies representing waiting children and families and the waiting families themselves to interact directly as well ...Read More
  

• Building Resiliency in Children, One Interaction at a Time

  Permanency workers have a powerful opportunity to help build resilience in the children and youth they serve—one interaction at a time. During the SWAN/IL Spring Quarterly Meetings held throughout April, ...Read More
  

• Developing Families through the Family Profile Process

  If achieving permanency is a journey, then the SWAN Family Profile Unit of Service equips Pennsylvania families with everything they need—prepared, packed, and ready—to navigate that path successfully. The family ...Read More