Encourage is excited to announce that our prep courses to become a licensed foster family is now 24 hours. Due to House Bill 8, the Ohio...

Encourage Foster Care provides trauma-informed training and supportive services to foster and foster-to-adopt families. We specialize in...

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

Encourage Director, Jessie Berry, MSSA, LISW-S, reflects on what makes a foster parent successful.

Celebrate with us! Our network of foster parents is growing. There are currently 14 families in the midst of the home study phase of the...

Encourage offers foster parent pre-service courses training multiple times a year. This 24-hour required training is one of the first steps

At Encourage, we are here to walk alongside individuals, couples and families as they prepare to open their home to a foster child or...