About Us Donate Make a Difference Careers Media Search Why Kinship Care? Programs & Services Kinship Caregivers Youth & Birth Families Practitioners Consulting Blog National Kinship Review Caregiver Resource Portal Your one-stop resource for all the information you need to provide the best care to your kinship child. Check It Out about Caregiver Resource Portal A Second Chance, Inc. National Leader in Kinship Care Since 1994 GIVING TUESDAY IS HERE! Your donation on Giving Tuesday will help ASCI combat local food insecurity by cultivating vegetables and fruits in our garden and offering them free of charge to the children, families and communities we serve! Learn More! about GIVING TUESDAY IS HERE! What is kinship care? Kinship care, or family caring for family, is a natural, out-of-home placement option for children that successfully meets their need for safety, permanency and well-being. IMPACT Better Outcomes for Children Children in care have already experienced the trauma of being removed from their homes and families. Placing them with strangers only compounds that trauma. Placing them in the homes of relatives or fictive kin reduces the chance for further trauma, while at the same time maintains their connection to their communities and cultures. Read More about Better Outcomes for Children MODEL A Value for Family As the only agency in the country that exclusively delivers services to the entire kinship triad (child, caregiver and birth family), our approach is pure kinship. We provide strengths-based, trauma-informed, culturally competent kinship care services that support stability and continuity and maintain a child's cultural identity and contact with their birth family. Read More about A Value for Family VALUES What Is Important to Us? ASCI values diversity, equity and inclusion. We show our kinship families and birth families respect and help them maintain their dignity. We are honest and transparent. And we always consider the culture of those with whom we interact, responding sensitively and respectfully based on their beliefs, practices and needs. Read More about What Is Important to Us? How We Have Helped ASCI has served approximately 31,000 children, 10,000 kinship caregivers and 30,000 birth parents since its founding. Be a Kinship Advocate! NEWSLETTER SIGNUP Caregivers, please check one. Philadelphia Caregivers Pittsburgh Caregivers Sign up! VOLUNTEER AT ASCI You can make a difference for children and families in our community. How would you like to help? Request more info! DONATE NOW CONNECT WITH ASCI Instagram Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Our Mission A Second Chance, Inc. (ASCI), is a nonprofit corporation established in 1994. Its mission is to provide a safe, secure and nurturing environment to children in the care of relatives or close family friends—formally called kinship care. Learn More Pittsburgh Corporate Office 8350 Frankstown Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15221 (412) 342-0600 Philadelphia Regional Office 1341 N. Delaware Avenue, Suite 101 Philadelphia, PA 19125 (215) 564-0790 Penn Hills Office 10 Duff Road, Suite 310 Pittsburgh, PA 15235 (412) 342-0600 Rhonda D. Wright Family Center 8384 Frankstown Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15221 (412) 342-0600 English