Carson Valley Children's Aid

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Carson Valley School is an independent, non-profit child and family service agency founded in 1917 whose mission is to provide residential, clinical, educational, and community-based services that make a measurable difference in the lives of children and their families. The complex was designed by Albert Kelsey in the Tudor Revival style.

Robert and Isabel Carson, trolley magnates in Philadelphia, created a legacy in the early 1900’s to provide a safe-place for children on 100 picturesque acres in rural Flourtown, Pennsylvania, thereby creating the Carson College for Orphaned Girls in 1917. Over the years, Carson has created historic milestones in educating children while surviving the economic downturn of the Great Depression, being the first orphanage to embrace children of color, creating a safe-haven for neglected and abused children.

Children's Aid Society, founded in 1885 as a foster placement and adoption agency. Children’s Aid Society served multiple counties in Pennsylvania, providing specialized family-focused social services to neglected and abused children through out-of-home and in-home services. On July 1, 2008 the organizations merged and created a single organization, Carson Valley Children's Aid, which provides a full continuum of quality services to children and families throughout our region.

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