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Jan 3, 2019
Blessings this year
Encourage’s director, Shawn Pedani, LISW-S, reflects on the year . . . Our team recently had a year-end get-together and reflected on all...
Dec 11, 2018
Fostering through faith
Faith is an integral part of our culture at Encourage. Sometimes the faith component in fostering starts as a gentle nudge. A knock at...
Dec 5, 2018
Comfort and joy this Christmas
Like many other children, when December comes around our children enjoy carefully writing out “Wish Lists” to send to Santa. They...
Nov 15, 2018
Fostering siblings
People often have a negative perception of children in foster care. Just because these children come from hard places and have...
Nov 12, 2018
Spouse unity in fostering
At Encourage, we are here to walk alongside individuals, couples and families as they prepare to open their home to a foster child or...
Nov 5, 2018
Protect the vulnerable
As the second Sunday in November approaches, we are reminded of a word used less frequently in our country today. Orphan Sunday is a...
Oct 31, 2018
The heart of prevention
At Encourage Foster Care & Adoption we are here to support the children who have been removed from their families due to substance abuse,...
Oct 26, 2018
Instant Family
Foster families and their unique joys and struggles are often tucked away from mainstream media so we are excited to see this important...
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