Center for Family Services — Treatment Foster Care -

Street address: 2601 N. Howard Street
Suite 200
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4979

Purpose: To improve and enrich the quality of life for children, youth, families, and individuals through a wide range of community services that adhere to the highest professional and ethical standards.

Service: HOPE Program for Medically Fragile Infants and Children is a statewide Treatment Foster Care program servicing infants, children, and youth who have chronic life threatening medical conditions. HOPE provides comprehensive care in a home setting with a trained foster family and availability to a part-time nurse. Treatment Foster Care recruits, trains, and certifies foster parents who become a part of a treatment team. Provide services to children and teens who have been removed from their birth families for neglect and/or abuse and specific medical conditions that warrant special care. Support services to the treatment family and birth family are provided after placements are made. Comprehensive services include: respite and emergency respite care, 24 hr. on-call availability, individual and family therapy, case management, diagnostic and psychiatric services. Therapeutic Alternative Shelter Care or "TASC"-is a 30-90 day specialized short term program that uses specially trained treatment foster parents and social workers to assist troubled youth ages 12-21 and their families. TASC accepts difficult to place youth that would otherwise be detained or placed in a more restrictive level of care than needed.

Eligibility: Prospective foster parent eligibility includes: age 25 and older, in good health, Maryland residency, U.S. citzenship required. Able to provide a safe, stable, and therapeutic environment for a child. There are no restrictions on race or marital status.

Fees: There are no licensure fees for prospective foster parents; fees for services rendered are coordinated through local Departments of Social Services.

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