The Madeira Family Center, housed at the
Church of the Advocate, is the heart of
Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania’s
community outreach efforts. Many of the
Madeira Family Center’s programs are offered
in partnership with community organizations
such as The Church of the Advocate and
The Tanner G. Duckrey Elementary School.

Family Night is a parent education and support
program built around a communal family dinner.
Once a week for two 16 week sessions – one in
the spring, one in the fall -- families come together
with other families to enjoy a sit down meal at
which parents and children talk together and build
family bonds. After dinner, parents meet in an
education/support group led by Children’s Aid
Society staff in which they discuss the issues they
confront as parents. Children break off into age
appropriate activity groups.

Emergency Food and Formula Program provides
families throughout the city with emergency food
packages (food for three days of meals) and,
when requested, infant formula and food.

For further information, please contact Barbara Jordan
at 215.765.3874 between the hours of
11 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday.

Art Sanctuary, located in North Philadelphia, uses the power of black art to transform individuals, unite groups of people, and enrich, and draw inspiration from the inner city. They invite established and aspiring artists to help create excellent lectures, performances, and educational programs.

Art Sanctuary was founded in June 1998 by author and educator, Lorene Cary with a vision to bring the creators of contemporary black arts into the community. Housed in the Church of the Advocate, a National Historic Landmark in the heart of North Philadelphia, Art Sanctuary programming exists to create a community curriculum that enables groups as large as the School System and as small as the Grands As Parents teen group to explore fine art by enjoying it, studying it, and creating it. Our aim is to connect individuals and a whole community to artistic excellence—in hip-hop, literature, dance, and visual art, music. Art Sanctuary uses art and the connection to create event-specific programs that generally increase community involvement and awareness of art and the issues it explores.

Narcotics Anonymous is a nonprofit, international, community-based organization for recovering addicts active in over 113 countries. Narcotics Anonymous (NA) members learn from one another how to live drug-free and recover from the effects of addiction in their lives.

The Paul and Christine Washington Family and Community Center is a brand new facility designed to house the important community programs of the Church of the Advocate. The Washington Center provides meeting spaces, classrooms, multipurpose rooms and office space for the Church’s community programs and activities of our community partners.