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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...
Understanding Fostering Challenges: What Every Foster Parent Should Know
If you're considering fostering a child in Colorado and want insights into common challenges, you've come to the right place. Since 2012, Courage Community Foster Care has been fostering life-changing connections. In this blog post, we'll explore the most common...
The Impact of Fostering Sibling Sets: Why It’s Important
Fostering sibling sets is an essential component of the foster care system that is often overlooked. When children enter foster care, they are frequently separated from their siblings, which can cause feelings of grief and anguish. However, evidence indicates that...
A Guide to Foster Children’s Education: Tips and Strategies
Even with the greatest of intentions, children in foster care frequently face prejudice and stigma at school because their peers perceive them as different. In addition to having to move schools regularly, some foster children find it difficult to adjust to the new...
Blending Biological and Adopted Foster Children: Tips and Tricks
Blending biological and adopted foster children can develop into a wonderful experience for all involved. A blended family is truly unique and has the potential to be both beautiful and challenging. There will be many ups and downs with this type of transition, which...
Fostering with Confidence: Top Questions to Address
Becoming foster parents is a profoundly rewarding experience for both you and your family, and it can significantly impact a foster child's life, affording them the love and stability they deserve. If you're considering fostering with confidence in parenting in...
9 Ways to Help Your Foster Child Manage Their Emotions
You have a significant impact on a child's life as a foster parent. Regardless of whether they are placed with you temporarily or permanently, your foster child is counting on you to give them a secure, loving, comfortable, and stable environment. But it goes far...
Championing Love: The Positive Aspects of Single Parent Adoption
According to studies, approximately 15,000 single women and 2,000 single men have chosen to adopt children. The single parent adoption process can be complex without the guidance of an adoption agency. If you're in Colorado and need assistance with the legal aspects...
Gentle Parenting: Core Principles, Advantages, and Disadvantages
There can be challenging decisions to be made regarding how to best raise children, whether you're raising older children or are a new parent learning how to calm a crying newborn. Despite the abundance of parenting suggestions and the variety of parenting styles...
Building Bonds: The Significance of Keeping Siblings Together in Foster Care
When children enter foster care, adjusting to a new environment can be challenging. However, if they have their siblings with them, it becomes easier to adapt to the situation and surroundings. At Courage Community Foster Care, we are committed to discussing the...
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.