Testimonial - Stephanie and Todd Moore
My husband and I decided to become a treatment level foster care home about a year after getting our family level license. Through someone we had met at training we got the contact info for Community Care. We reached out and started the process of upgrading our license. Brynn was so helpful throughout the process, answering questions, letting us know what was needed, and walking us through the process. Community Care helped make the process simple and not at all over whelming
Once signed on with Community Care, we realized how much support and resources they had available to us. I cannot say enough about the wonderful support and guidance we have received from the Community Care Staff. There is always someone available to attend Family Team Meetings with me. Our Case Manager, Kaitlyn, is phenomenal. She always makes time for me when I have questions or need guidance. If she doesn’t have the answer to a question, she finds it. Her knowledge and experience with children with special needs is invaluable. Seanna has also been so helpful to us when we need advice on how to handle situations that have come up. They also supervise visits. Support staff who supervises these visits are kind and knowledgeable and help the children feel safe and comfortable at their visits. Community Care also provides us great and informative trainings that are fun and full of helpful information
At times, it can be difficult to navigate the DHHS System. The staff with Community Care helps us navigate this overwhelming and sometimes intimidating system. The added support we have received from Community Care has been invaluable.
I cannot say enough good things about our experience thus far with Community Care. There is always someone available to speak to when needed. Phone calls and emails are always answered in a timely manner. If they don’t have the answer to a question they keep searching until they find it. I have told many people about Community Care and often recommend to them looking into their services if they have even considered becoming a Therapeutic Home.
Testimonial - Deb McKay
I have been with Community Care for several years and have had many positive experiences. When I first was licensed for foster care it was recommended to me by the State DDS worker to contact Community Care and ask about being a therapeutic foster mom. I am single and that was the best advice I could have received.
Being a single foster mom, I did not have back up from a spouse to bounce ideas off of, help to handle kids when they had a melt down or became extreme in behaviors. With Community Cares backing me up, I had those supports. If I needed advice, they were there. If I needed someone to come sit with a child at the hospital so I could sleep an hour, they were there. If I was with one child and another had a melt down at school, they were there.
A part of foster care which seldom comes to mind for a new foster parent is how to know if a child is the right fit for their home. I admire Community Care for the time they spend getting to know foster parents and what their strengths are. The staff is great at understanding the home they are calling and what may or not be a good working relationship between foster parent and foster child. They are not just trying to find a placement for a child and foster family, but to find a fit that will enable success for both.
When I became ill a few years ago and spent two weeks in a hospital, they were wonderful at taking care of the foster child, maintaining the same school for them, although it was quite a travel distance, and even brought them to see me at the hospital. It helped speed my healing to know the children were taken care of.
I feel that if I had not been with Community Care these many years, I would have burned out on doing foster care and quit. Instead, I have had some wonderful kids come through my home, met some great parents and worked with great staffing. Of course, not everything has always gone well, but even in times that were stressful, Community Care Staff reached out to listen, advise and support both the children involved and this foster mom.
FAQs — Upgrading from family level to treatment level