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The Foster Parent’s Handbook: 10 Essential Rules for Nurturing Children in Need
Being a foster parent is a challenging responsibility. It involves adhering to numerous rules and regulations implemented by the state to ensure the safety and well-being of your foster care child. To avoid any complications or potential harm to the child, it is...
What Fostering a Child Really Means: A Guide to This Life-Changing Experience
Foster is defined as the act of nurturing, bringing up, encouraging, or cultivating. It involves providing parental care to someone who is not legally or biologically related to you. Raising a foster child requires a significant amount of nurturing, guidance, and...
A Useful Guide for Preparing Your Home for Your Adopted Child
Making your home ready for a new family member should be a priority if you are in the process of adopting a child or are waiting for your adopted child to arrive. Everyone who becomes a parent for the first time faces challenges, but giving an older child or...
The Adoption Journey Continues: 10 Essential To-Dos for New Parents
Congratulations on finalizing your adoption! Now that the long journey is over, it's time to focus on the next chapter of your family's story. As experienced adoption professionals, Courage Community Foster Care has compiled a list of the 10 most important things to...
Useful Tips for Raising an Adopted Child of a Different Race
It can be challenging to raise an adopted child from a different race. You should educate yourself about the obstacles and reality of this path if you're thinking about doing it. At Courage Community Courage Foster Care, our specialists will hold in-depth discussions...
How to Make Your Foster Child Feel Special During the Holidays
The holidays are best spent at home. What, then, can a foster child call home? Holidays ought to be joyful occasions. But at this time of year, foster children could feel more depressed than happy. The separation from their original families is a heartbreaking...
What You Need to Know About Adopting Twins
If you are planning to adopt twins or multiple children from an adoption agency because you want a big family but you do not know what to do and how to start the process, you came to the right place. Any prospective parent who decides to adopt twins or multiple...
Foster Parenting: What to Expect from Teens
Teenagers can be a tough crowd, but they can also be a blessing. For foster parents, it’s important to understand the challenges they face and the best ways to support them. These golden rules will help you know what to expect as a foster parent. Respect their...
Helpful Tips for Raising Confident Children in an Adoptive Family
It's crucial to be aware of a few details that can help define the adoption experience as you go out on the most benevolent journey a person or couple can do. These tips will assist you in fostering confidence in adopted children of all ages, from infants to...
How Foster Children Can Affect Your Family
Foster children are typically in the state's custody due to circumstances beyond their control, which often include abuse and neglect. A child's behavior and mental health are both affected by experiencing abuse or neglect. Difficult Behaviors Foster children under...
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.