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Bruce Maag |
| International Phoenix Group |
| Chief Executive Officer |
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Delphos, OH 48533
United States
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Phoenix Homes
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| SSC: MIL or PMU (?) |
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 Profile
| Mr. Bruce C. Maag is a man of vision and action with a powerful motivation to make a difference. Maag got his start in the early days of treatment programs for difficult teens, working in group homes, residential and institutional settings, and in Ohio Youth Advocacy Program (OYAP), one of the first foster care agencies in Ohio. Maag realized early in his career that community settings, in local neighborhoods and in small families, better served troubled youth, than congregate care and institutional settings. Maag’s conclusion, combined with his own desire to serve youth better, made him proactive in his beliefs. Bruce Maag and his wife decided to become foster parents, and immediately, Bruce became committed to creating an organization that bridged the gap between traditional foster care and confined/in-patient clinical treatment programs. Maag is not merely a man of vision, however; he is also a man of action. He launched his treatment foster care agency in the state of Ohio and licensed a few foster homes. Later, he visited several county children’s service bureaus and told them he was creating a program to help the most difficult kids in the system. Bruce asked them if they had kids that no one wanted and then informed them he would take those children in to help them. That was the beginning of the program SAFY, which became one of the largest treatment foster care programs in Ohio and expanded to nine other states. Not only was he the creator of SAFY, Bruce Maag was also one of the founding individuals and one of the past presidents of the Foster Family Treatment Association (FFTA). During his presidency, Maag was an active and actual participant in the development of the FFTA standards for treatment foster care that are still in use today.
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