As mentioned in our previous blog post, Encourage is passionate about serving youth with higher levels of need including medical,...

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

UPDATE: We are postponing our Foster Care Q&A session until February, but we are always open and available to take your questions. Send...

The goal for most youth in foster care is reunification with their biological families. While apart from each other, bio parents focus on...

On any given day in Ohio, nearly 16,000 children are being cared for away from their parents. They have been removed from their homes due...

This has been a year of unknowns and uncertainties. We are incredibly grateful for the safety and stability Encourage foster families...

We recently shared a news article on the Encourage Facebook page about youth in foster care being housed at the Cuyahoga County...

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

Encourage Foster Care is part of a family of ministries with Christian Children’s Home of Ohio (CCHO). As a nonprofit organization, we...

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

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

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