Merakey
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Contact Information
620 E. Germantown Pike
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
United States
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Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8:30 AM-4:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM-4:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM-4:30 PM |
| Thursday | 8:30 AM-4:30 PM |
| Friday | 8:30 AM-4:30 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
Merakey’s foster care program helps children and adolescents find safe and loving homes when they cannot live with their own families. Children and adolescents can achieve their fullest potential while receiving the highest level of care from foster families and Merakey staff members.
We help foster a supportive, healthy environment in the home for children and families struggling to manage behavioral health needs.We Help With children and adolescents who are not able to live with their biological family and children and adolescents with mental health and/or behavioral health challenges
Foster Merakey is a leading developmental behavioral health and education provider offering a breadth of integrated services to individuals and communities across the United States of America.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Other
Requirements to become a foster parent
You must meet minimum requirements to provide foster care in Pennsylvania. Foster parents for children in need must:
- Be a minimum of 21 years old
- Pass a criminal background check with fingerprinting
- Have time and energy to devote to fostering
- Live in a safe and healthy environment
- Prove good health through a medical examination/physical
- Maintain financial stability
- Clear all home safety requirements
- Complete required pre-service training hours
- Finish the Home Inspection
After fulfilling all requirements during the approval process, licensed foster parents can welcome a foster child into their home. To maintain a valid license, foster parents must also participate in ongoing training each year.
All adults who are living in homes with foster children in Pennsylvania must pass a required criminal background check and fingerprinting. This includes adult children who are family members living at home.
There are other, more detailed requirements for foster homes, such as having a flushing toilet and an operable phone. Prospective foster parents will learn more details during foster parent orientation.
Once you've decided to foster, you can contact a public or private foster agency or the Pennsylvania State Resource Family Association. Foster agencies screen and train prospective foster families and ensure applicants are good candidates for foster care.
Ratings and Reviews
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Jul 28, 2023
Merakey is a Behavior Health Corp with with a wide variety of Social Services.
Nov 29, 2022
Upper management at Merakey needs purged of its’ overpaid, work from home, deadbeats who possess zero problem-solving skills. Most of the Merakey elite are in those 6 figure positions because of nepotism and it’s time to start booting them beginning with the Million Dollar Man Joe Martz.
Sep 26, 2022
I don’t understand how you can be such a huge company but no one answers the phone. It’s been almost a month and I haven’t received my pay. I have no one I can talk to to get any answers. I have called numerous numbers just to keep getting answering machines. This is unreal!
May 31, 2019
Great place to work
Apr 14, 2019
My case worker tried to 302 me & it was unfounded. She took my cat out of my home, took her far away & put a healthy cat down. Broke my confidentiality & verbally abuse me & so did the next one. Merakey hasn't comply in two months & I was treated like a criminal!!