Pressley Ridge Central PA

12/23/2025

Wishing you a holiday season filled with hope and joy. From all of us at Pressley Ridge, Happy Holidays! ❤️

11/21/2025

Matt and Donna Griggs never planned on becoming foster parents. But after caring for their nieces for nearly a decade, a single conversation changed everything. It opened their eyes to the world of treatment foster care and set them on an incredible journey.

Since getting licensed through Pressley Ridge in 2021, they've welcomed 16 children into their home, offering love, stability, and a place to belong. Their story is a powerful reminder that sometimes, the most fulfilling paths are the ones we never expected to take. 💪

Read their beautiful journey of love, family, and transformation: http://pressleyridge.org/stories/griggs-family-story/

10/09/2025

Alpha Xi Delta at Millersville University will host Xingo on November 9th at 11:00 a.m. at the Millersville University SMC Ville Courts. There will be bingo, basket raffles and more. Proceeds benefit the kids and families of Pressley Ridge Central PA.

Register or donate now at https://alphaxideltafraternity.crowdchange.co/51927.

09/16/2025

"The love and support you give these kids far outweighs anything you’re going to go through. It’s so much more important to show love to these kids and show love to these families, too.”

Ashley and Jason Mimm have been foster parents with Pressley Ridge for 5 years, and in that time, have cared for more than a dozen kids in their home. Earlier this year, the family was honored by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services with the Permanent Family Recognition Award.

Thanks to LNP + LancasterOnline for featuring this amazing family and highlight the immense need for foster parents.

The Mimm family once had a formal dining room in their East Hempfield Township home. Now, cabinets line the walls. They’re filled with dozens of backpacks, shoes, jackets, toys, sports

09/04/2025

September is National Kinship Care Month!

Let’s celebrate the grandparents, relatives and family friends who step in to care for kids during tough times. 💛

At Pressley Ridge, we support these heroes through certification, advocacy, emotional care and more.

Also, coming in 2026: a new kinship training course for child welfare professionals! 📚

06/24/2025

We are very appreciative of our partnership with CommunityAid as it has blessed many of the youth and families in our program. If you’re looking to declutter or you have clothing/household items that you intend to get rid of, please consider donating them to a CommunityAid location near you! All of their proceeds are returned to their community partners, like Pressley Ridge, who support their key areas of focus – housing, food insecurity, and basic human needs. When you make a donation, let them know to credit Pressley Ridge, partner number 50102.

Locations:

York -- 2001 Springwood Road York, PA 17403

Hanover -- 793 Baltimore Street Hanover, PA 17331

Harrisburg -- 4405 Lewis Road Harrisburg, PA 17111

Mechanicsburg -- 4833 Carlisle Pike Mechanicsburg, PA 17050

Lancaster -- 31 Rohrerstown Road Lancaster, PA 17603

Reading -- 5370 Allentown Pike Reading, PA 19560

Selinsgrove -- 1070 N Susquehanna Trail Selinsgrove, PA 17870

05/23/2025

💙 Meet the Carpenter family! 💙
Troy and Christine Carpenter would say "maybe someday" when it came to expanding their family. When Christmas 2022 came around, they knew that "someday" was here.

After becoming certified treatment foster parents, they received a phone call—not about one child, but three.

“It was very scary,” Christine recalled. “But something just felt right.” Read the full story to see how this one phone call brought this family together: https://www.pressleyridge.org/stories/carpenter-family/

05/06/2025

Today is , a day to recognize the foster parents, respite families, child welfare professionals, volunteers and everyone else who provides hope and support for the children and youth in foster care.
💚 THANK YOU for everything you do! 💙

04/18/2025

Can you help Kole find his forever home? For more information please visit: https://www.pressleyridge.org/services/foster-care-adoption/adoption/

NBC10’s Frances Wang introduces you to Kole — a young man who loves SpongeBob, snacking and connecting with people he knows. He is looking for a patient family ready to show him love and care.

01/31/2025

In our Community Residential Rehabilitation (CRR) Program, youth with serious behavior concerns are placed in a highly-structured home with specially trained treatment parents, like Ian and Koren Blythe, who provide stability, supervision and positive discipline.

Thanks to WGAL News Channel 8 Susquehanna Valley, Pa. for spotlighting this important program through the perspectives of the Blythes, Keshawn, Allie, Nyla and Program Supervisor Abby Chan.

For more information on CRR or to learn how to become a treatment parent, visit www.pressleyridge.org/crr.

Right now, about 15,000 children are in temporary foster care in Pennsylvania. Pressley Ridge is a foster care agency in York and Lancaster. It offers traditional foster care as well as a community based residential care program. The specialized program helps care for at risk youth.

12/23/2024

11/19/2024

York CRR program partnered with Mission Central in the past year and has received several generous donations from them. This past month, we received 50 large hardshell Samsonite suitcases, new in box. (Some of these suitcases were shared with our Lancaster office and some are being distributed to other PA offices (wherever the need presents). Thank you Mission Central!