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The Ups and Downs of Adoption: How Families Can Build Resilience and Deep Bonds
Adoption is a life-changing experience, full of emotional highs and lows. While deeply rewarding, it can also present unique challenges. Families in Colorado, including those working with adoption agencies, may find the journey overwhelming at times, but with the...
How to Prepare Your Home and Family for a Foster Child
Opening your home to a foster child is a deeply rewarding experience, offering a vulnerable child a safe, stable, and nurturing environment. However, it's not a decision to be taken lightly. It requires careful preparation, not just of your physical space, but also of...
Finding the Bridge: Tips for Building a Connection with Adopted Child
Adoption is a wonderful journey that brings love and family together. But it can also be challenging, especially when trying to build a deep and lasting bond with your child. Whether your child is a baby or a teenager, understanding their background and experiences is...
15 Things to Know Before Fostering a Child
Are you planning to become a foster parent? When considering becoming a foster parent, you may imagine what it will be like. However, you will soon face the reality of fostering. To guide you on this journey, we have compiled all the important things prospective...
Finding the Right Adoption Agency for Your Family: A Guide
Adopting a child is a significant and transformative choice that can bring your family an abundance of love and happiness. However, the adoption process can also be challenging, involving many difficult decisions, the most crucial of which is choosing the right...
Honoring a Hero: Josh Skaggs, A Foster Dad’s Journey
In Colorado Springs, Josh Skaggs, a dedicated single father and school teacher, has been recognized by the Colorado Department of Human Services for his exceptional commitment to fostering. This honor coincides with National Foster Care Month, emphasizing the urgent...
What Are The Common Myths About Fostering and Adopting?
Are you planning to foster or adopt a child? If you are a resident of Colorado, USA, you have come to the right place. Courage Community Foster Care is a licensed public foster and adoption agency, and we can help you with the process. In this blog post, we will...
Fostering a Brighter Future: The Impact of Foster Care
Our view of how children develop is firmly rooted in the idea of the family. A stable and loving family serves as a basis for a child's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. However, for foster children, this fundamental stability of foster care is...
Tips On How To Be A Foster Parent With A Full-Time Job
Do you want to foster a child? If you have a full-time job and live in Colorado, USA, you have come to the right place. Courage Community Foster Care is a licensed public foster agency, and we can help you navigate the legal processes of fostering a child. In this...
Foster Parenting A Beginner’s Guide to Providing a Loving Home
Foster parenting is a meaningful and gratifying experience that has the potential to improve the lives of underprivileged children. As a foster parent, you can provide a safe and nurturing environment for a child who has experienced trauma or instability in their...
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.