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The founder of several social care nonprofit organizations, Bruce Maag continues to contribute to his community.
Chief Executive Officer of International Phoenix Group
Mr. Bruce C. Maag began the Treatment Foster Care organization International Phoenix Group in 2000, a company that now has grown to employ more than 100 staff members and serve over 350 youth. The most important thing for Mr. Maag has always been to help disadvantaged youths, and his idea for IPG conceptualized when he realized how many troubled children are deprived of help because they are considered more difficult than others. His organization, International Phoenix Group, focuses on the severely emotionally disturbed and under-served youth in North America. Since the year 2000, Bruce Maag has been working towards building and strengthening the structure of his much-needed organization. Today, IPG has offices in seven states, which are serving youth on a daily basis. Before his latest project, Bruce Maag was still working towards helping others. Maag began the organization SAFY of America in 1984. He started the group in Ohio from scratch and built it up to be one of the top 10 Treatment Foster Care Programs in all of North America. Maag dedicated many years to SAFY, but needed to leave his position with his organization to be with his wife through a difficult battle with leukemia. However, thanks to Maag’s hard work, the organization today has expanded into 10 different states and helped place thousands of children. SAFY also employs over 250 staff members and is affiliated with over 10 other similar programs for preschoolers, the medically fragile, sex offenders, and run-away children. SAFY also boasts affiliation with an in-home intervention component, an MRDD component, a full-service travel agency, a national training program, a girls’ residential program, and a national consulting service.
Bruce Maag's Publications
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The National Institute for Alternative Care Professionals (NIFACP), Bruce Maag
August, 2010
In early 1987, Mr. Bruce Maag founded The National Institute for Alternative Care Professionals (NIFACP), an organization that works on the local, state, and national levels to provide professional development, education, and training through conferences and seminars. Since its inception, NIFACP has organized a number of national conferences around the United States, often working with notable academic and professional institutions such as NOVA University, the Ohio Coalition of Foster Care Networks, The Foster Family Based Treatment Association, and SAFY of America, one of the top treatment foster care programs in the country. Working closely with other industry professionals, NIFACP engineered many seminars designed to educate and enlighten those in a number of alternative care fields. Working specifically with a number of individuals in treatment foster care, NIFACP developed a specialized national certification for the staff members of organizations working in the field. At NIFACP, Bruce Maag served as Executive Director, handling staff development and budget oversight while also playing an instrumental role in the design of various conferences and seminars. Bruce Maag worked with NIFACP concurrently to his position as the Chief Executive Officer of SAFY, an Ohio-based treatment foster care program the he founded in 1984. Leading SAFY and NIFACP until the end of 1999, Bruce Maag developed both into important staples in the treatment foster care field.
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