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ESS provides up to 650 children from birth through twenty years of age with loving and nurturing foster care. Based on city referrals, ESS places children who were living in unsafe home situations with foster parents who were recruited, trained, and qualified by ESS. Many children will be returned to their biological families once their parents have addressed issues that led to placement, such as drug/alcohol rehab, anger management, housing, parenting skills training, or domestic violence therapy; others will be adopted by foster parents who open their homes and hearts to a new family member. ESS' scope of foster care services includes care for 25 children with special medical needs (such as HIV). Although we continue to care for children city wide, new foster care placements are focused in two Community Districts in the South Bronx (1, 3) and four in Manhattan (4, 5, 7, 9), per city contracts under the Neighborhood-Based Philosophy that require children to be placed in the same community district from which they come.