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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...
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...
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.