Maple Star
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Contact Information
2250 S. Oneida Street
Suite 200
Denver, CO 80224
United States
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Suite 200
Denver, CO 80224
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8 AM-4:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 8 AM-4:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 8 AM-4:30 PM |
| Thursday | 8 AM-4:30 PM |
| Friday | 8 AM-4:30 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
Maple Star is a specialized community services agency that provides safe, stable, and healing homes children who have experienced trauma. We continually need foster parents that will care for and equip these children to live healthy and productive lives.
Foster care is the temporary care of children who have been removed from their own families. Children are removed from their families for a number of different reasons, including abuse and neglect, substance abuse, and family crisis. The children are in the legal care of the State, but—like every child—they need a family to care for them.
The purpose of foster care is to provide a safe, loving, and supportive home for those children who cannot live with their family or on their own. While the child is in foster care, a team consisting of caseworkers, mental health providers, life skills workers, and other professionals work to provide services to the child’s family, with the goal of healing and strengthening the family so that the child can be reunited with parents who are able to provide safe, nurturing relationships intended to last a lifetime.
The primary goal is to reunite children with their biological families; however if this is not possible, foster families may be given the option to provide permanent foster care or to adopt the child(ren) in their care.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
Requirements to become a foster parent
You must meet minimum requirements to provide foster care for children in Colorado. Foster parents for children and families must:
- Be 21 years of age or older
- Maintain sufficient income to support a family
- Have physical and mental capability to care for children and youth
- Pass a child abuse background and criminal background check
- Work with a treatment team and undergo future training
- Complete a Home Study
Prospective foster families can contact a Colorado child placement agency or your local Department of Human Services. Social workers in these child welfare agencies will provide information about Colorado's child welfare system, foster care, and the adoption process.
Social workers recommended that other adults and children in your home agree to provide long-term home care, too. If everyone is ready to welcome a new child, your local agency will help your home become an approved foster home.
Ratings and Reviews
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Mar 24, 2021
We’ve been fostering through Maple Star for about 2 years now. We’ve enjoyed working with this organization...they helped orchestrate a smooth process of filling out initial paperwork and getting approved as a foster home, and they’ve been such a great support for us whether it was helping provide diapers, finding respite when we need some self-care, offering useful training and just being supportive during the tough times. Cathy, our home supervisor, is amazing.
Mar 24, 2021
We have enjoyed working with Maple Star for many years as a foster parent! They offer great support and have made the journey in fostering a delight!
Mar 19, 2021
I’m a foster parent for maple star and it has been the best company since I’ve signed up. They are always there when needed and very helpful and nice
Mar 15, 2021
We are in the early stages of becoming certified foster parents with Maple Star and our experience so far has been wonderful! The staff members we have met are kind, responsive, organized and helpful. I'm very grateful to have the support from Maple Star as we begin our fostering journey.
Mar 12, 2021
Maple Star was recommended to us by friends and we are now a licensed, active foster family through this organization. Our Home Supervisor has been our biggest advocate and team mate, which we sincerely appreciate. The relationships built throughout licensing, placements and ongoing training have felt very genuine and we have been able to lean into those as needed.