The need for foster parents is critical; more than 3,400 children in Colorado are currently in foster care, and more parents are needed. Each day, we receive numerous referrals for children of all ages needing a temporary home.

Mount Saint Vincent’s Foster Care Program provides traditional and therapeutic training and certification to foster parents as well as individualized support and guidance throughout the journey.

Foster care is the temporary 24-hour care of children who cannot remain in their own homes due to abuse, neglect, or other safety concerns. Mount Saint Vincent contracts with county departments of human services to provide traditional and therapeutic foster care placements for these identified children.

Foster parents provide children a stable, safe, and nurturing environment until they can return to their biological parents. If returning is not an option, an adoption plan may be developed. Alternatively, foster parents may be asked to help older children develop independent living skills.

Mount Saint Vincent's Foster Care Program serves children ages newborn to 18 years old whose length of stay in foster care may range from overnight to a few months or a few years. If adoption becomes the permanency goal, a child may be adopted by their foster parent.

Children placed in foster care come from every social, economic, ethnic, and racial background. They have been abused or neglected or may have medical or emotional needs. They all need a safe home and a parent to love and care for them for as long as necessary.

For more information on becoming a foster care or foster-adopt parent, call 303-318-1825 or email fostercare@msvhome.org. Foster parents need to reside in one of these counties: Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas or Jefferson.