Maple Star holds two intermediate goals for serving youth placed in Maple Star families.
- Enhancing the probability of a stable placement
- Enhancing the probability of personal growth and healing
These goals are met through a partnership between foster, group home, and adoptive parents with Maple Star’s staff. Maple Star recruits, certifies, and monitors foster homes so that children may live in a safe and stable home where they can experience honor, begin to heal and develop a hope. While this is not an easy undertaking for anyone, the benefits can be measured through the eyes of a child as they become the person they were meant to be. Consider becoming a resource for the children of Colorado. Some of you may want to foster, some may want to adopt, some may want to be a group home; for all of you, there are children waiting for YOU! Take a risk, get involved. We need all kinds of adults to care for a variety of children and youth, ranging from babies to adolescents. Use your experience, your heart, and your talents so that you may provide a healing environment for a child.
Open your mind to foster care and adoption, open your heart to a child; then open your door to Maple Star!
Maple Star’s web site is designed to provide information to our current foster parents as well as to help interested people determine if fostering and adopting is for them. Maple Star is always looking for foster parents; however, there are additional ways to help our children and families. To determine how you can be involved, please come to our next Orientation meeting.
As a foster or adoptive parent, you must complete all of the certification requirements at minimal expense to you. You pay for your background checks and once licensed, Maple Star will reimburse you for all of your expenses. The process, if you work diligently, should take about 60-90 days. Maple Star staff will guide you each step of the way and provide the required training for your certification. Background checks, CPR & First Aid, and home studies are also part of the process.
Once certified, foster/adoptive parents can determine the age of children/youth they want and Maple Star’s staff works to match appropriate children to their family. Foster & adoptive parents receive reimbursement that covers the expenses involved in caring for children. Maple Star helps to provide support, resources, training, and oversight so that foster/adoptive parents effectively parent the children in their care. For more information on how you can become a foster/adoptive parent download our application. Consider how you can open your mind, open your heart and then open your door to a child! Maple Star, and the children of Colorado, are waiting to hear from you!
Consistent with the call for community-based, least-restrictive alternatives, Providence Service Corporation’s Virtual Residential Program was created to meet the needs of an underserved subset of children and adolescents with mental illnesses --those with emotional disturbances so severe that they are at imminent risk of out-of-home placement. VRP© is a family-centered and strength-based intervention that combines the structure of residential programs with the benefits of in-home efficacy. Utilizing a mix of theoretical perspectives and therapies, VRP targets multiple-determinates of problems faced by the youth and their families. VRP provides families, schools, and communities with a diversion alternative to unnecessary out-of-home placements and/or to expedite successful step-down of youth following residential or psychiatric placements.
To make a referral to VRP, call 303.960.7436. or pweiner@maplestar.net