Articles
Understanding Behaviors: What’s Trauma and What’s Typical?
Parents often hear phrases like “big feelings” and “normal child development,” yet still find themselves staring at a child’s reaction and wondering what just happened. This becomes even more true when caring for children who have lived through trauma. A raised voice...
What Happens After a Child Is Placed: Key Steps & What to Expect
When a child first enters your home through foster care, it’s a moment filled with joy, nervousness, hope, and sometimes fear. You’ve spent weeks, maybe even months, preparing your home, attending training sessions, and waiting for the call. And now, it has finally...
Why Foster Children Face Unique Challenges: Understanding Their Stress and How to Help
Children in foster care face significant stress that stems from past traumas like abuse, neglect, and separation from their birth families. At Courage Community Foster Care, we understand these challenges deeply. In this article, we'll explore the common causes of...
Opening Hearts and Homes: Your Guide to Understanding Foster Care Adoption
Deciding to adopt from foster care represents one of the most meaningful choices you can make for a child in need. Yet despite the profound rewards, many potential adoptive families hesitate due to misconceptions, fears, and unanswered questions about the process and...
Helping Foster Kids Build Trust Again
A child who enters foster care often carries a heavy burden of experiences, many defined by betrayal, neglect, or loss. For many foster children, trust has been broken by the very people who were supposed to keep them safe. When they walk into a new home, it's not...
Helping Teens in Foster Care Thrive: A Practical Life Skills Guide for Foster Parents
If you're fostering a teenager, you've probably heard the phrase "aging out." It sounds so official. So final. But what it really means is stepping out into the world without the daily support of a caregiver. And while some youth are reunited with family or adopted...
Building Your Family Through Adoption: A Complete Guide to Your Options
Adoption is one of the most meaningful ways to build a family, offering children the chance to find loving, permanent homes while helping families grow through compassion and commitment. For families in Colorado considering adoption, understanding your options is the...
How to Be the Foster Parent Every Child Deserves
There is more to foster care than just a system. It is a network of second chances, healing, and a sense of hope Foster parents, who give their homes and hearts to kids in need of love and security, are at the center of that network. But what exactly qualifies as an...
Preparing Foster Youth for Adulthood: The Transition to Independence
The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a challenging journey for every young person. For youth in foster care, this shift can be even more difficult due to the lack of stable family support, frequent changes in living situations, and limited access to the...
How to Recognize Depression and Anxiety in Children
Childhood is often portrayed as a carefree period of life, filled with joy and boundless energy. However, the reality is that children, just like adults, can experience significant mental health challenges, specifically depression and anxiety. Recognizing these...
Courage Community has been making life-changing connections between families and children since 2012.
Colorado has many foster children needing placement, and too few foster homes to care for them
On any given business day, we receive referrals from five to twenty children needing to be placed in a foster home. Children of every age, ethnicity and circumstance are referred, from newborn to 20 years old. Most of our children are referred along with their siblings. All of the children referred for foster care are removed from their family’s care for reasons of abuse and/or neglect.