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See the possibility
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio (CCHO), the parent organization of Encourage is celebrating 50 years of ministry this year! Throughout...
May 8, 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


Encourage Ministry Focus
Our ministry focus at Encourage is fostering and foster to adopt. If you are looking to foster or foster to adopt and possibly take siblings
Apr 11, 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


Perfect love casts out fear
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio (CCHO), the parent organization of Encourage is celebrating 50 years of ministry this year! Throughout...
Mar 26, 2019


A friend in fostering
Fifty children currently make up our foster care family. Boys. Girls. Preschool to high school and most grades in between. Singers....
Mar 7, 2019


Myers-Briggs: Is It Me?
Earlier this month, Encourage welcomed Rebecca Ryder, MA, NCC, LPCC-S, Managing Clinical Supervisor for Encompass East Counseling to...
Feb 27, 2019


Life Is Short – Buy The Orange Pants
This blog post was originally published in January 2016. The truth of it remains the same so we are sharing it again to bring you...
Feb 11, 2019


Setting up foster parents for success
Encourage Director, Jessie Berry, MSSA, LISW-S, reflects on what makes a foster parent successful.
Feb 5, 2019


TBRI in the news
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) is an evidenced-based model for parenting traumatized youth. This relational approach to...
Jan 22, 2019


Home studies in process
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...
Jan 17, 2019


What to Expect from Foster Parent Pre-Service Courses
Encourage offers foster parent pre-service courses training multiple times a year. This 24-hour required training is one of the first steps
Jan 9, 2019

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