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Meeting a child’s sensory needs
Our interview series on The Connected Parent closes with the topic of sensory needs. For children from hard places, sensory challenges...
Sep 28, 2021


Parenting with TBRI
Today we turn to CCHO’s Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) expert to give us first-hand guidance on parenting. Sheila...
Sep 16, 2021


The greatest need
We recently shared a news article on the Encourage Facebook page about youth in foster care being housed at the Cuyahoga County...
Jul 20, 2020


Growing faith in a pandemic
Today’s blog post comes from Jessie Berry, clinical supervisor at Encourage. She shares a powerful story of fostering through faith. See...
Jul 1, 2020


The biggest joy
Throughout National Foster Care Month, we’re sharing “Blessings Found in Fostering.” We’ve asked Encourage families and staff to tell us...
May 28, 2020


Change of plans
Throughout National Foster Care Month, we’re sharing “Blessings Found in Fostering.” We’ve asked Encourage families and staff to tell us...
May 27, 2020


Major milestone
Throughout National Foster Care Month, we’re sharing “Blessings Found in Fostering.” We’ve asked Encourage families and staff to tell us...
May 14, 2020


Noticing each moment
Throughout National Foster Care Month, we’ll be sharing “Blessings Found in Fostering.” We’ve asked Encourage families and staff to tell...
May 13, 2020


Give all of you
Throughout National Foster Care Month, we’ll be sharing a new series–”Blessings Found in Fostering.” We’ve asked Encourage families and...
May 5, 2020


Grace for birth parents
How we think about and care for birth families is an important piece of our work in foster care. There are some who would say that the...
Aug 29, 2019


Sensory needs
At Encourage, we invest fully in our families and children, and we are committed to supporting our foster parents throughout their entire...
Apr 23, 2019


Fostering teens
One of Encourage’s greatest needs is foster homes for teenage foster children. Being a teenager is already hard enough. Imagine not...
Apr 4, 2019

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