Between August 2025 and May 2026, Wayne County, Pennsylvania wrote at least $651,036.33 in checks to a residential youth facility in Upper Darby, Delaware County, 130 miles from Honesdale. The money covered the placement of two children.
The facility had been open less than a year. No contract between it and the county has been located in any public record reviewed for this report. Its founder lists no clinical degree in her public biography. One of the two children, identified only by the initials S.G. in the county check register, was billed at rates reaching approximately $4,500 per day — more than $135,000 in a single month — several times the published per diem rates at established residential providers in Pennsylvania. The other, H.F., was billed at rates that ranged from $352 to $2,208 per day across different months at the same facility, with no documented explanation for the variation.
In October 2025, Pennsylvania DHS inspectors found six violations at the facility, including deficiencies in every child file reviewed. The facility’s license expired sixteen days later. DHS did not issue a provisional certificate until eighteen days after that. Wayne County had children placed there through the entire period and continued paying without interruption.
Wayne County’s three commissioners, Brian Smith, Jocelyn Cramer, and James Shook, approved every payment in their regular motions to pay bills. No commissioner meeting across the full period contains any mention of the facility by name, any question about the invoices, any reference to the inspection, or any discussion of the rates. The payments appeared as line items in the Children and Youth Services check register, approved alongside routine foster care stipends and office supply orders.
Cater 2 You Youth Haven files IRS Form 990-N, the electronic postcard permitted only for tax-exempt organizations reporting annual gross receipts under $50,000. The confirmed payments from Wayne County alone exceed that threshold by more than thirteen times.
What Cater 2 You Is
Cater 2 You Youth Haven is a licensed Chapter 3800 child residential facility at 45 Long Lane, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania 19082. The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services issued its license, number 152120, in October 2024. The facility has an eleven-bed capacity.
According to the facility’s FAQ page at cater2youyouthhaven.org, youth must be “actively involved in the foster care system” to be eligible for placement, and “the referral form must be completed by a social worker.” Every resident arrives through an official child welfare referral. The facility functions as a vendor to county children and youth services agencies.
The About Us page describes it as “a proud 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization” and states it provides “on-site mental health services” and “trauma-informed care.”
Its founder and CEO is Marie Minor. According to her biography on the facility’s staff page, Minor is “currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Human Services with a concentration in Psychology.” Her listed background includes work as a therapeutic foster parent, a substitute teacher, and the owner of Cater 2 You Events, an event planning business. She also lists a role overseeing operations at JumpStart Learning Center. No clinical credential, social work license, behavioral health certification, or child welfare administrator certification appears in her public biography.
Pennsylvania’s Chapter 3800 regulations, 55 Pa. Code §3800.51 through §3800.67, set education and experience requirements for administrators of child residential facilities. Whether Minor is listed as the administrator of record on the facility’s license, and whether DHS verified her qualifications at the October 2025 renewal inspection, are questions the public record does not answer.
What $135,000 a Month Buys
The facility’s Services & Programs page lists eleven offerings: financial literacy, cooking, CPR training, a beauty studio, art and conflict resolution, job readiness, hygiene, health and wellness, LGBTQ+ support, music therapy, and DJ training. The DJ training program is run by an outside vendor, DJ Manny Strong LLC, the only external provider named anywhere in the facility’s programming.
None of the eleven programs, as described on the facility’s website, are clinical services. None reference licensed therapists, clinical social workers, psychologists, or any credentialed mental health provider.
The distinction matters for how the rates would be justified. Pennsylvania’s HealthChoices behavioral health managed care program covers clinical services for children in child welfare custody through Medicaid. When a residential facility provides therapy, psychiatric care, or behavioral health treatment, those services are billed through Medicaid rather than through the county’s CYS check register. The county pays a per diem for room, board, and case management. Medicaid pays for clinical work. That has been the standard funding split in Pennsylvania for decades.
Under Pennsylvania’s standard HealthChoices funding split, clinical services at a residential facility are billed through Medicaid, not invoiced to the placing county as placement costs. Absent clinical services, the rates Wayne County paid have no visible basis in the programming the facility describes.
Five Staff for Eleven Beds
Cater 2 You’s website lists five staff members. Three are family.
Marie Minor is the founder and CEO. Her daughter, Masiyah German, is listed as co-founder and Director of Programs, responsible for all eleven programming offerings. German holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Her biography lists internships in law enforcement and legal advocacy, mentoring of high school students, and volunteer work with incarcerated individuals. No clinical training, human services license, or child welfare certification is listed.
Marie Minor’s identical twin sister, Sharee Minor, is listed as Supervisor. According to her biography, Sharee Minor works as a case manager for juvenile and adult probation for the City of Philadelphia. That is her primary employment. She holds a full-time position in the juvenile justice system whose clients overlap with the population Cater 2 You serves, while simultaneously listed as Supervisor at Cater 2 You and as CEO of a second facility, From the Heart Youth Haven, at 2135 W. Venango Street in Philadelphia.
The two remaining staff members hold clinical credentials. Both appear to work at Cater 2 You on a part-time or consulting basis, based on their own professional descriptions.
Karim Johnson is a registered nurse with a BSN from La Salle University, EMT certified, and a former Navy Corpsman and firefighter. His biography on the Cater 2 You website describes a “current psychiatric nursing role” where he “collaborates closely with multidisciplinary teams, administers medications, conducts detailed patient assessments.” That language describes an active hospital or clinical setting. Nothing in his bio identifies Cater 2 You as his primary position.
Dr. Blair Chase holds three licenses: LMFT, LPC, and ATR-BC, a board-certified art therapist. He is listed on the Cater 2 You website as the facility’s “Behavioral Health Therapist.” His specialties, including depression, anxiety, domestic violence, and parent-child relationships, are applicable to the population Cater 2 You serves.
His Psychology Today professional profile lists his primary location as Erie, Pennsylvania, roughly 400 miles from Upper Darby. His secondary location is Phenix City, Alabama. His profile states: “I offer virtual therapy for those who reside in Pennsylvania & Alabama. Availability is flexible.” His practice, The Butterfly Affects, charges $150 per session out of pocket and does not accept insurance. His Cater 2 You biography also describes a concurrent academic career as “a teacher and supervisor for master’s level Art Therapy students,” with a research focus on professor-student stress.
The facility claims on-site mental health services. Its only listed therapist practices virtually from Erie and holds a teaching position.
An eleven-bed, 24-hour residential facility serving court-involved youth at rates between $750 and $4,500 per day would typically require a licensed program director, licensed clinical social workers or psychologists providing direct services, direct care workers on every shift, a licensed administrator meeting Chapter 3800 qualifications, and case managers handling placement coordination. The website lists five people. Two have clinical credentials. Neither appears to be full-time.
The Donation Page
While receiving six-figure monthly government payments, Cater 2 You Youth Haven solicits public donations.
The facility’s Donate page asks for “gently used clothing (teen and young adult sizes), monetary donations, hygiene products, school supplies, non-perishable food, household items and more.” Monetary donations are accepted through Cash App at $cater2youyouthhaven. The page reads: “Every dollar helps provide comfort, safety, and hope to our youth.”
Nowhere on the website does Cater 2 You disclose that it receives government funding. There is no mention of county contracts, per diem rates, or public revenue of any kind, no link to any financial filing, and no audited financial statements.
The IRS record is inconsistent with the payment record. Cater 2 You Youth Haven files Form 990-N, reserved for organizations with gross receipts under $50,000 per year. The confirmed payments from Wayne County CYS for August 2025 through May 2026 total $651,036.33. During the period covered by these payments, a single county was paying the facility more than $50,000 in most months.
From the Heart Youth Haven, the Philadelphia facility operated by Sharee Minor, files the same form. Both organizations report under $50,000 in gross receipts. Neither has filed a full Form 990, which would require disclosure of officer compensation, related-party transactions, and program expenses.
The Inspection
On October 9, 2025, Pennsylvania DHS inspectors visited Cater 2 You Youth Haven and found six violations.
Every child file reviewed was deficient. The violations included failures to complete individualized service plans in the required timeframe, failures to document family involvement in care planning, and failures to verify that children had received required dental, vision, and hearing screenings. A cracked window was also cited.
Individualized service plans are the documents that govern a child’s treatment in residential care. Family involvement requirements give the families of children placed by the state a documented role in their own children’s care. Dental, vision, and hearing screenings are the minimum health checks the state requires for children in residential placement.
The facility’s license expired October 25, 2025, sixteen days after the inspection. DHS issued a provisional certificate on November 13, covering the gap retroactively. For roughly eighteen days between October 25 and November 13, the facility operated after license expiration without a provisional certificate.
Wayne County was billed for at least one child, S.G., at Cater 2 You during that entire period, at approximately $4,200 to $4,500 per day.
A provisional certificate is DHS’s acknowledgment that problems exist and that the facility has been given time to fix them. A placing county’s obligation to monitor placements at facilities under corrective action increases during this period.
No Wayne County commissioner meeting between October 2025 and January 2026 contains any reference to the inspection findings, the expired license, the provisional certificate, or the facility’s corrective action status. The payments continued at the same rates, approved in the same routine motions.
On January 9, 2026, DHS issued a corrected certificate with an expanded population authorization that added delinquent youth to the facility’s approved placement categories. The expansion came four days before the correction period formally closed on January 13, 2026, and three months after an inspection found deficiencies in every child file reviewed. DHS Deputy Secretary Laval Miller-Wilson signed the population expansion certificate.
The Payment Record
The complete confirmed record contains eleven line items across ten commissioner meetings, covering the placement of two children at a total confirmed cost of $651,036.33. Every payment appears in the Wayne County Commissioner meeting minutes as a line item in the Children and Youth Services check register. All were approved in the commissioners’ regular motion to pay bills. No discussion accompanied any entry.
| Commissioner Meeting | Check # | Line Item as Recorded | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 11, 2025 | 9236 | August 2025 placement for H.F. | $10,908.39 |
| Oct. 2, 2025 | 9343 | August 2025 clothing purchase | $450.00 |
| Oct. 16, 2025 | 9387 | September 2025 placement for H.F. | $37,216.86 |
| Nov. 26, 2025 | 9578 | October 2025 placement for S.G. | $50,583.54 |
| Dec. 11, 2025 | 599994 | September 2025 placement for S.G. | $134,861.40 |
| Dec. 18, 2025 | 600055 | October 2025 placement for S.G. | $131,481.90 |
| Jan. 29, 2026 | 600185 | November 2025 placement for S.G. | $126,083.77 |
| Mar. 12, 2026 | 600337 | January 2026 placement for H.F. | $68,458.53 |
| Apr. 16, 2026 | 600470 | March 2026 placement for H.F. | $34,891.77 |
| June 4, 2026 | — | April 2026 placement for H.F. | $33,850.10 |
| June 4, 2026 | — | May 2026 placement for H.F. | $23,250.07 |
| Confirmed Total | $651,036.33 | ||
All line items are recorded under the payee “Cater 2 You Youth Haven.” The June 4, 2026 commissioner minutes do not include check numbers in the Children and Youth Services section. This total is a floor, not a ceiling.
Several features of the record stand out.
Two children, different rates
S.G. was billed at approximately $4,200 to $4,500 per day across September, October, and November 2025. H.F. was billed at rates ranging from $352 per day in August 2025 to $2,208 per day in January 2026, dropping to $750 per day by May 2026. Both children were placed at the same facility. No publicly available document explains why one child’s daily rate was three to six times higher than the other’s, or why H.F.’s rate changed from month to month.
In standard practice, a child’s placement rate in residential care is set at intake, documented in a placement authorization, and holds steady unless a formal rate change is executed with documentation. This record shows invoices apparently calculated on a different basis every month, paid without visible scrutiny.
The October double payment
Two separate checks, $50,583.54 on November 26 and $131,481.90 on December 18, are both recorded in the minutes as payment for “OCTOBER 2025 PLACEMENT FOR S.G.” Combined, they total $182,065.44 for one child in one month, or approximately $5,873 per day over 31 days.
No correction, offset, or explanation for the two payments appears in any subsequent commissioner meeting. In a standard purchase-of-service arrangement, a county fiscal office reviews invoices before payment is authorized. Both checks cleared after the retirement of Wayne County CFO Vicky Botjer, whose last day was October 23, 2025. Whether her successor was in place and performing invoice review at the time is not reflected in the public record.
The underlying invoices would show whether these checks covered different service periods than their descriptions indicate, or whether the county paid twice for the same month. Those invoices are county records subject to the Right-to-Know Law. They have not been produced.
The $450 clothing purchase
Check 9343, approved October 2, 2025, is described only as “AUGUST 2025 CLOTHING PURCHASE,” a round number with no child’s initials, no vendor name, and no receipt reference. Every other child-specific expense in the same check registers includes a provider name, a specific child’s initials, and a date or invoice number. A dentist appointment for one child was documented at $15.00 with the provider named.
H.F.’s three-month gap
H.F.’s placement generated payments in August and September 2025. No H.F. payment appears for October, November, or December 2025 in any reviewed meeting. H.F. reappears in the January 2026 payment, processed March 12. The gap coincides with the October 9 inspection and the licensing lapse. Whether H.F. was removed from the facility after the inspection and re-placed after the corrected certificate issued in January is a question the placement authorization records would answer.
What Remains Unknown
No purchase of service agreement, provider agreement, or contract of any kind between Wayne County Children and Youth Services and Cater 2 You Youth Haven has been located in any public record reviewed for this report. The commissioners never voted to enter one, and no solicitor opinion authorizing the expenditure appears in the minutes. The same is true of a rate authorization, the document that establishes what a county will pay per day for a specific placement, and a placement authorization, the document that records who approved placing a specific child at a specific facility.
Someone at Wayne County CYS, or at Service Access and Management Inc., the contractor that has run CYS intake operations under a contract effective October 1, 2025, made the decision to send Wayne County’s children to a facility 130 miles from Honesdale. That person’s identity is not in the public record. Neither is any explanation for the October 2025 double payment, or for the rate differential between two children placed at the same facility.
Payment data is sourced from Wayne County Commissioner meeting minutes. Licensing and inspection records are from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. Corporate registration data is from the Pennsylvania Department of State. IRS filing status is from the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. Staff biographies, program descriptions, and donation information are from cater2youyouthhaven.org. Blair Chase’s practice details are from his Psychology Today profile.
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