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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Jan 08, 2020
Our certification process has been challenging. Maple star has helped ease this by always being supportive and encouraging.
Dec 05, 2019
We really enjoyed meeting the lovely staff of people at Maple Star Colorado. They took 2 hours out of their day to answer all of our questions. If you are thinking about fostering, this would be the place to start. We are working with Lizzy and Jennifer. They took a lot of the fear out of this process.
Sep 20, 2017
As for scheduling and visitations for a parent they do not communicate clearly. They do not notify you in ample amount of time of visits. Visits are on their time not the clients. And if client cannot make it due to conflict in schedule you are denied visitation for the week. Works are rude and joke about other cases in front of you. My worker was over herd saying kids only cry for their mom for a bit but once mom is out of site they shut up. Those was funny to her. I didn't think it was. If you are given this as your visitation ask for another company.