Mentor Maryland believes every child and family deserves a hopeful future. We recognize that every family is different, with their own hopes and strengths that can help them grow. We get to know each child and family so we can understand their needs, goals and hopes for the future. Services are tailored to each family’s needs so we can help them live well.
Services include:
All children deserve to lead full, joyful lives and to have caring people supporting them as they grow. Mentor Maryland gives children more than just a safe home. We help children who have had a difficult start in life overcome the challenges they face.
Our foster parents, who we call Mentors, come from all walks of life and backgrounds, but they have one thing in common. They’re caring people who want to help children live their best life.
Basic Requirements Include:
Foster parents are independent contractors and not employees of Mentor Maryland or Sevita.
Become a Foster Parent
In Mentor Maryland’s Therapeutic Foster Care program, children live with loving foster parents who provide the care and stability they need to heal and grow. With the support of their foster parents, children build life skills to overcome emotional, behavioral, and other challenges.
Depending on each child’s needs, supports include:
In our Medically Fragile Foster Care program, we support children from birth to age 21 who require medical supports and interventions in order to thrive. Children get comprehensive loving care in family homes with special foster parents committed to helping them live well.
Children in our program receive:
In our Teens in Transition Therapeutic Foster Care program, we help young people prepare for independence through strength-based supports tailored to each person’s needs. Individuals aged 15 to 20 live with a Mentor foster family in a nurturing setting with structure and supervision. Teens receive career training and in-person or virtual skill building in vocational skills, health and mental health, and financial literacy.
Mentor Maryland’s Independent Living program helps youth build the skills they need to live independently. We provide caring support to help them find and keep a job, reach educational goals, and address behavioral and emotional challenges. Unlike traditional foster care, youth in this program live in an apartment with a roommate instead of with a foster family. They go to school or work and have access to supports to help them prepare for adulthood.
Family Centered Treatment (FCT) is an evidence-based family preservation model of home-based treatment designed to support and help keep the family together. Our caring therapists help the family find simple, practical, and common-sense solutions for to the challenges they are having living and working well together in the home. The goals of Family Centered Treatment are:
These kids need love and need someone to listen to them. I never turn a kid down.
Ann
Mentor Foster Parent
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Our foster parents are special people who open their homes and lives to the children they support. As a foster parent, you can help a child reach their full potential and live a full, healthy life.
Become a Foster ParentWhether you’re looking for part-time work or a career, at Mentor Maryland you’ll have the chance to make an impact on the children and families we serve.
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