Your home. Your calling. Our support.
Karuna Care Services partners with host home providers across Colorado. Real partnership, responsive support, and the respect this work asks for.
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What this work looks like
A host home provider opens their home to one or two adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The supported individuals live with you. You cook together, sit at the same table, share weekends. You are the person they trust day to day.
It is real work. It is also one of the most relationally meaningful jobs we know of. The people we serve have often spent too many years in institutional or sterile settings. Your home is the alternative.
The work asks for a steady hand, real warmth, and a willingness to show up consistently. It does not ask for a degree, a pedigree, or polished caregiver credentials.
What partnering with Karuna means
We do not hire providers. We partner with them. The relationship is peer to peer, not employer to employee. The decisions about your home stay with you.
When something goes wrong at 2 AM, someone at Karuna picks up. Not a voicemail tree. Not a callback queue. Real responsiveness as a real commitment.
The agency stays out of your way until you need us. When you need us, we are present without being paternalistic. The respite directory exists so you have the support you need to keep doing this work for the long haul.
What the path looks like
Everyone's path looks a little different. Here's the shape it usually takes, so you know what's ahead before you ever start.
- 01
An application.
Around sixty questions about you, your home, and the kind of partnership you're looking for. Forty-five minutes if you go straight through. Most people don't, and that's fine. Save where you are and come back tomorrow, or next week. We remember.
- 02
An in-home visit with Meagan.
Our director of intake comes to where you live. She meets you in the rooms the people you'd support would share with you. The conversation is honest, both directions. Hard questions get asked. So do yours.
- 03
Your profile.
We turn the application into a real picture of who you are and who you'd be a good partner to. Photos, narrative, the things that make a host home a home. You see it before anyone else does.
- 04
Meeting prospective families.
Karuna introduces you to people who might fit, and to their families. Conversations happen at coffee shops, in parks, in your kitchen. You both decide whether this feels right. Nothing is rushed.
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Placement and ongoing support.
When the match is right, we move forward together. From there, the work is the work — meals, routines, hard moments, real joy. Karuna stays close. When something goes wrong at 2 AM, someone picks up. When things are going well, we stay out of the way.