A social service agency serving Northern, Eastern and Central Maine since 1995, Care Development is starting a treatment foster care program in the County. Treatment foster care is a specialized level of foster care that serves children whose needs cannot be adequately met in traditional foster care settings. Foster Parents contracted with the Agency provide a therapeutic, stable environment in their homes for up to two treatment foster children each. Care Development's treatment foster care program currently serves over 130 treatment foster children within Penobscot, Piscatiquis, Hancock and Washington counties. Over the next six months the expansion will add about 9 staff and about 10 contracted Foster Parent positions to serve these children and families.
Positions are throughout the entire county.
Several of our current customers, including the Department of Human Services, asked us to begin offering a treatment foster care program within Aroostook County. We look forward to working closely with the families and children throughout all Northern Maine and meet this need. The Bridge Home will exclusively serve children from Kennebec and Sagadahoc counties and will allow siblings to remain together. Previously, siblings often had to be split apart and placed in a variety of different foster homes throughout the state. The Oakland facility is the first of three such homes under a new contract with DHS and Care Development.