Encourage cares deeply about youth with high-level needs and we are equally committed to supporting treatment foster families who open their hearts and homes to these youth. Our goal is to equip foster parents with the physical, emotional and logistical help needed to come alongside hurting kids with safety, love and connection. We want to see each foster family and each foster child be successful in the purpose to which God is calling them.
To support families on their foster care journey, Encourage provides therapeutic services including case management, mental health counseling and psychiatric care as needed. These services are provided seamlessly as Encourage is part of a trio of trauma-informed ministries with Encompass Christian Counseling and Christian Children’s Home of Ohio.
Foster youth may receive outpatient mental health counseling and psychiatric care as needed from compassionate licensed clinicians. They will help identify and address issues like anger management, trauma, grief and loss, depression, self-harm, anxiety and relationship struggles.
Encourage foster care coordinators provide intensive case management on a weekly basis. They reinforce the youth’s therapy work as well as TBRI principles with foster parents to ensure they implement this method daily with their youth. They also help foster youth and families with skill building, academic guidance and links to additional community resources. By listening and learning, they build trust and identify solutions together.
At Encourage, we work as a team and with community partners to provide wrap-around care for children and families. This added layer of support helps make lasting change for the whole family.
Learn more about how Encourage is uniquely positioned to care for the complex needs of youth in foster care in our next blog post.
