Forestdale, Inc. is the only child welfare agency based in Queens and dedicated to serving the borough’s diverse population. Our main campus is in Forest Hills, the geographic heart of Queens, while our services extend strategically to the neighborhoods where they’re needed most, including Jamaica, Elmhurst and the Rockaways.

Since 1854, Forestdale has served as a school for street children, an orphanage and most recently a center for foster care and adoption. While Forestdale’s history reaches a long way back, we are proud to offer innovative programs that reflect what families need now. Each year, we serve over 500 children in foster care, ranging in age from birth to age 21. We also work with hundreds of families in crisis, many headed by recent immigrants, to prevent their children from being placed in foster care.  Other Forestdale services include the Faith-Based Neighborhood Initiative, the Fathering Initiative and TASA.