The number of young people who need a foster care home has skyrocketed and far exceeds the number available in Colorado. The need is particularly high among teenagers who need a temporary home.
Do you have room in your home and heart for a young person? Consider fostering through Savio’s specialized treatment foster care program! This highly successful program will make sure your time and energy will make a real difference in the life of your foster child.
While you provide a home, safety, and stability for a teen, Savio will provide services to their biological family with the goal of reunification or independent living.
Treatment Fostering Is…
Providing a safe home for ONE youth between the ages of 12-18 for up to a year.
Receiving free training and expert help, including a 24-hour support line
Focusing on parenting the child while partnering with Savio’s therapists who work with the youth and their biological family until they can be reunited. Similar to therapeutic foster homes, the youth receive mental health services while in the foster home
Joining a community of incredible foster parents supporting youth
Being part of a program with an established track record of helping at-risk youth and reuniting families
Want to hear another foster kid or foster parent talk about what fostering is really like? Listen to our podcast, The Foster Family, and hear their unfiltered stories.
Treatment Foster care
What can you expect when become a treatment foster parent with Savio?
A Careful Match
Savio takes the time to learn about you and your family. We are a Colorado Foster Care agency, and work with all counties in the Metro Area.
We will match you with ONE child based on your strengths and preferences.
A Young Person with Enormous Potential
The foster youth in the program have often shown concerning behaviors. But these behaviors reflect what they’ve been through. Not who they are.
Like All Teenagers they need love, stability, and belonging. They want and can be self-sufficient. They often want to learn to drive, or get their first job. They all have potential to thrive when supported.
Financial Assistance
Many people worry about the cost of fostering children and ask “do foster parents get paid?” Stipends for treatment foster care families are higher than traditional care, up to $2,300 per month. In addition, the children quality for health insurance and other benefits. available to foster families and foster youth.
A Team Approach
Treatment foster parents play a critical role in a team that is supporting an entire family. While the teen is living with you, Savio will provide therapy to the teen and their biological family. We focus on the family’s therapeutic needs so you can focus on creating a safe, stable, and warm home.
New skills
You’ll learn how to recognize signs warning signs of escalation and how to de-escalate teenagers before you are matched with a child. You’ll also receive regular training that helps you understand young people and become a better foster parent.
A Rewarding Experience
You can change a young person’s life by offering love, consistency, and care. Meanwhile, our therapeutic foster families report getting back even more in return.
Does Savio Offer Adoption from Foster Care?
Savio’s foster care services, including its treatment foster care program, are not “foster to adopt” programs. Children form an intense and important bond with their parents at a young age. Thus, our primary goal is to provide the services needed to stabilize the family, support the youth, and reunite the family. Sometimes, time apart is just what a family needs to stay together.
Occasionally, the family is not able to improve and the child will need an adoptive home. Foster parents may look at adopting in these situations and we encourage them to consider adoption if parental rights have been terminated. In these cases, Savio will connect you to an adoption agency to facilitate the process while continuing to support you and the child.
More questions? You can read more about becoming a foster parent
or contact us by calling Rebecca at 720-530-6071 or rcarpenter@saviohouse.org.
You can also fill out the form below with your question or to get started!