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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...
10 Everyday Habits That Harm Your Well-Being
Contrary to what other people think, some of the happiest people do not have much, and some of the smartest cannot even show you a high school diploma. Some people can help you achieve healing, even if they do not have titles written after their names. What these...
Why you NEED to say “No” as a Foster Parent
It was a very difficult, almost impossible, word for "The Fonz" to say on the classic TV show "Happy Days." Maybe, it is a very difficult, almost impossible, word for you to say at times. The word “No” has been a difficult one for me as a foster parent whenever we got...
Focus on the Child, Not the Behavior
When we say mind the child and not his behavior, there’s an entirely different dynamic involved. If parents interpret a child’s misbehavior inaccurately, they will start to have a feeling of fear. This fear can eventually lead to guilt, finger-pointing, or worse,...
5 Things You Should Know About Being A Foster Parent
1. The home study process This is the ‘meat and potatoes’ of the licensing process. Applicants will be given questionnaires and participate in a series of in-home interviews (usually 5 total) that allow the agency to construct a story of your family. The questions...
Megan’s Story
This is Megan’s story, I started this journey to be a foster mom because I have always had a heart to help children. I went to school to be an early childhood teacher, but one day thought these kids weren't the kids God put on my heart to help. I found Courage...
Tiffany and Bud
We started our foster parent journey about 5 years ago. Originally we had been certified in Summit County, CO for 2 years without receiving any referrals for foster children. We where given Kerri's information from our caseworker and recertified with Courage and as...
My wife Bobbi and I had just moved to Colorado
My wife Bobbi and I had just moved to Colorado when we decided to foster. I went online and research how to start. Choosing the agency to work with was amazingly easy. I read Courage Foster Care Agency's bio and placed the call. Once I spoke to Kerri it was clear this...
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. 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.