Maple Star

Our minimum qualifications are: - Must be at least 21 years old - Maintain an emotionally, physically, and financially stable household with a spare bedroom - Have one adult in the home full-time or available as needed to provide care for children - Enjoy the challenges of working with children and youth in your home - Must be able to pass a criminal background check You can also view more information here: https://www.maplestaror.org/information-for-applicants/

If you are interested in becoming a certified therapeutic foster parent, Maple Star would love to help you. Please visit https://www.maplestaror.org/information-for-applicants/ for more information.

Behavioral Rehabilitation Services (BRS) is a higher level of care that provides skill development and support to children with moderate to high emotional and behavioral needs. Maple Star provides BRS services in a therapeutic foster care setting. This allows children to receive this higher level of care and support, while remaining in a family and community setting, avoiding residential treatment facilities or group home placement. Maple Star Oregon partners with the State of Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) to offer this higher level of care to foster youth. Our homes are uniquely trained and supported to care for the needs of each youth. Each youth is supported with an individualized service plan, outlining goals for the foster parents to help the youth work towards during their placement. Placements are meant to be short-term in order to help children stabilize and find permanency as soon as possible.

Our parents foster only one or two youth in the home at a time, provide higher levels of supervision to ensure child’s safety, offers daily counseling and individual skill building to support growth, advocates for the needs of the youth as part of their professional service team, works on established goals to help the child build life skills assists child academically, and ensures involvement in the community.