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A Guide to Helping Your Child Cope With Trauma
Children and adolescents are more vulnerable to trauma than adults. But when they receive the right support and reassurance, their recovery will also be faster.How Does Trauma Affect Children?Traumatic events or natural disasters can cause intense, confusing, and...
Learn How to Discipline Your Foster Child Without Using Corporal Punishment
Foster parents are not permitted to apply corporal punishment with foster children, so adoptive parents should be wise to try other discipline techniques to avoid corporal punishment due to many children's experiences with abuse and neglect. When you become a foster...
7 Strategies to Help Your Child Manage Anxiety
All kids feel anxious sometimes. Anxiety can be a good thing. It makes your child think twice about running into oncoming traffic or jumping off a cliff. Anxiety helps keep your child safe. However, there's a good chance that they'll experience unnecessary anxiety at...
Do You Have A Healthy Relationship With Your Child?
Life as a parent seems to be always running. Time never stops for anyone. As parents, we try to do the best that we can in taking care of our children. However, when we feel like we are doing the best, we seldom have time to genuinely assess how well we are doing as a...
Discover The Child’s Love Language
Once you have decided to take a child under wing whether as a foster parent or an adoptive parent, it is highly important that you give them the love and affection that they have been neglected in the first place. During the childhood years, it is crucial that one...
What Are The Questions To Ask Before Adopting A Child?
Adoption is not an easy process, and here at Courage Community Foster Care, we are willing to help unite families and legally free children for adoption. If you are planning to foster or adopt a child, you came to the right place. In this short article, we are going...
8 Questions to Ask Before Fostering a Child
Fostering a child is not a simple process. If you are planning to foster a child, at Courage Community Foster Care, we can help you with this process. We are a private child placement agency licensed by the Colorado Department of Human Services. In this article, we...
What Does A Foster Child Want From His/Her Foster Parents?
Being a foster parent can be very challenging in a lot of ways. As a foster parent, you will be required to do several things that you haven’t done yet. Keep in mind that you are bringing home a child whom you don’t know. You don’t have any ideas about what they like...
Eight Good Parenting Tips
Being a foster parent is different from being an adoptive parent. A foster parent will be responsible for taking care of their foster child or children only for a temporary period. Meanwhile, if you adopt a child, you will serve as the child or children’s official...
5 Reasons Why You Should Be A Foster Parent
Research says that parents’ affection can shape their children’s happiness and outlook in life. According to Child Trends, a non-profit research organization in the United States, the warmth and love that parents display to their children have an effect on their...
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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. The majority of our referrals for placement originate from the Denver Metro and Colorado Springs area, although we also work with rural communities such as Lake, Summit, Chaffee and Park Counties.