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What Are the Dos and Don’ts for Foster Parents?
Being foster parents is not a walk in the park. You have to commit yourself to providing the best environment for a child who is coming out of a bad home situation and give them the foundation that they need to get the rest of their life on track. If you are looking...
Foster Care and Adoption: What’s the Difference?
Foster care and adoption is a privilege that lets you love and support a child that is not your own. You’re opening your home, family, and heart to someone desperately in need. Both foster care and adoption have a crucial role in the life of a child in jeopardy by...
How Do You Deal With The Challenges of Being a Foster Parent?
Not all foster parents have the same experience with fostering; fostering children usually differ from one parent to another. No two children are the same, even if they are twins or siblings. If you are looking to foster, then you’ve come to the right place. At...
Foster Care Guide: Am I Qualified To Foster?
Do you want to foster a child, but feel something is holding you back? You may be considering being qualified to foster, but you think your situation won't allow you. You might be confident that you can give a foster child the love and care they need, but because of...
Your Guide To Parenting In a Pandemic
This unprecedented time caused by COVID-19 has left many parents struggling to navigate a new, uncharted territory of challenges. The fear and uncertainty of being locked up at home have made it difficult for families to keep a sense of calm and establish new...
How Fostering a Child Can Affect Your Own Children
Children who are in foster care are usually removed from their parent’s responsibility because they abused and neglected, and for other reasons beyond their control. Several studies show evidence that abuse and neglect have an effect on a child’s behavior as well as...
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 discipline your foster child, 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 parent or adopt a...
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...
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.