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Helen Smith Girls' Home
Agency: Hearts and Homes for Youth
FOSTER CARE: Offers a community-based group home for eight adolescent females. Aimed at providing a long-term (12-18 months) residential placement to youth, ages 15-19. Provides a structured environment which is staffed 24-hours by counselors. Resident attends an accredited educational program. Each has the opportunity to learn self-control strateg...
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Mentor Network, Therapeutic Foster Homes
Agency: Mentor Network, The
THERAPEUTIC FOSTER HOMES: Provides placement within foster homes for children and adolescents with severe emotional disorders, mild intellectual disabilities or developmental disabilities.
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Washington County Diversion Program
Agency: Pressley Ridge Western Maryland
NOTE: Referred to program by DJS (Department of Juvenile Services) except for children in need (CINS). CINS must be parent referred. OVERVIEW: Works with parents and appropriate community agencies to provide youth ages 8-18 with an alternative to entering the juvenile justice system. Works with youth who have not previously been found guilty throu...
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Woodbourne Center, Treatment Foster Care
Agency: Woodbourne Center
FOSTER CARE: Provides a community based treatment modality which trains and licenses treatment foster care parents to provide in-home care to emotionally troubled children and adolescents. Provides case management, crisis intervention when necessary, 24-hour on-call service and respite care.
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Cedar Ridge Children's Home for Boys
Agency: Cedar Ridge Ministries
NOTE: For initial admission children must be enrolled/attend public or non-public school and be referred by DJS, DSS, Board of Education or Core Service Agency.RESIDENTIAL HOME: Provides residential care for boys ages 10 to 21 who are at risk, been abused, neglected, abandoned, adjudicated, and emotionally challenged. Youth enrolled int he program...
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Board of Child Care, Treatment Foster Care
Agency: Board of Child Care
THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE: Program provides therapeutic, nurturing, community-based therapeutic foster homes to those who need a higher level of care than what is provided in traditional foster care homes.
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Children's Guild, The, Residential Living
Agency: Children's Guild
RESIDENTIAL LIVING: Offers therapeutic group homes.
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Children's Guild, The, Treatment Foster Care Center
Agency: Children's Guild
TREATMENT FOSTER CARE CENTER: Provides care for at-risk children and adolescents who demonstrate specific emotional, biological and behavioral deficits resulting from a traumatic past. These include learning disabilities, traumatic stress disorder, conduct problems, aggression, emotional fragility, separation, loss, maltreatment, and who are low fu...
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Harford County Department of Social Services, Adoption and Foster Care Services
Agency: Harford County Department of Social Services
Offers adoption services and foster care licensing.SERVICES:1) ADOPTION: Provides services which enable legally free children to become adopted. Services are initiated by foster care staff for children who have been maltreated or have been in foster care with no chance of returning to their families. Children are placed with adoptive parents who p...
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Howard County Department of Social Services, Foster Care and Resource Homes
Agency: Howard County Department of Social Services
FOSTER HOME PLACEMENT: Places children in either foster homes or group homes when it is clearly determined that the children can no longer remain in their own homes. Placements are court-ordered. Returning home is the primary focus of DSS. Also recruits foster care families and provides licenses for families that provide 24-hour care for non-relate...
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Jump Start
Agency: Hearts and Homes for Youth
FOSTER CARE: JumpStart is a semi-independent living group home for young males ages 17-20. They are referred to us by the Department of Human Resources and Department of Juvenile Services. The program is operated with a behavior modification system implemented by counselors providing 24-hour supervision. The resident attends an accredited education...
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Oak Hill House
Agency: United States Fellowship, Inc.
RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT: Provides a residential treatment program for at risk adolescent males. Program teaches life skills training, education and after care planning to prepare them to successfully re-enter the community and continue to function as active and responsible members of society. Therapeutic family weekends are held three times a year a...
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Safe Families for Children
Agency: Building Families for Children
SHORT-TERM SHELTER: Provides volunteer "host parents" to temporarily house and care for a child while their parent(s) deals with homelessness, joblessness, drug addiction, or other life crisis. * Biological parents maintain full custody* "Host parents" are extensively screened, trained and monitored. They are also supported with a network of volunt...
