Vaughan foster parent business welcomes children with open arms.

Foster parent Avis McCoy hesitates, her eyes watering slightly, as she remembers the day she had to let go of the 18-month-old daughter she had raised from birth.

“She cried after me. She called me mama when I last saw her,” said the 50-year-old Brampton mother of three grown children and two grandchildren.

“It tore me apart. She saw me as a mom,” said Ms McCoy, who fully understood she was the child’s foster mother.

Ms McCoy makes up one of 30 foster parent families employed by Maple Star, a private agency in Vaughan licensed under the Children and Family Services Ministry that works with Children’s Aid societies in the GTA to provide foster care. The agency was based in Markham from 2004 until last December when it relocated to Vaughan.

“We work with more challenging kids with behavioural or emotional or medical needs. They (Children’s Aid Societies)have their own foster parents, but sometimes they are looking for secure foster parents for the children, large sibling groups, or the behaviours are more challenging than you would typically see in their (CAS) regular homes.

“They’ll look to us to provide that level of care,” Maple Star executive director Jennifer Mittelman said.
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