Recent News

• 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
  

• Winter Statewide Meeting Boosts Energy and Connections

  During the bleak, cold winter, everyone in the SWAN/IL network knows the best opportunity for warmth and energy is attending the SWAN/IL Winter Statewide Meeting.  Held at The Penn Stater ...Read More
  

• Call for Award Nominations

  Do you know someone who does great things for children in the child welfare system? Do you know an exceptional adoptive, formal kinship care or permanent legal custodianship family? Say ...Read More
  

• Now Accepting 2025 Permanency Conference Family Scholarship Applications

  The 33rd Annual Pennsylvania Permanency Conference will be held June 18-20, 2025, at the Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Pocono Manor, PA. The Permanency Conference is sponsored by the Department ...Read More
  

• The Right Match Was Out There

  Nearly a year ago, Jason Moots and Jared Dahlgren grew their family through adoption. They both agree their journey to adoption was full of emotional highs and lows and credit their ...Read More
  

• SWAN Portal Version 3.0 Launched

  In early 2020, SWAN IT Manager John Coutts and SWAN Contracts Administrator Lisa Stum met with a handful of affiliates and County Children and Youth agencies to discuss the SWAN ...Read More
  

• 2024 LSI County Partner Survey Results

  The SWAN prime contractor’s Research and Quality Assurance (RQA) Division successfully deployed the 2024 SWAN LSI County Partner Survey in April 2024 to a diverse group of county staff and ...Read More
  

• Permanency Pro Strikes a Chord of Kindness, Humor and Skill

  David has spent most of his career working in the permanency unit and is one of the most genuine, thorough, and kind people one could have the privilege to know. ...Read More