One of Encourage’s greatest needs is foster homes for teenage foster children. Being a teenager is already hard enough. Imagine not...

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

Fifty children currently make up our foster care family. Boys. Girls. Preschool to high school and most grades in between. Singers....

Earlier this month, Encourage welcomed Rebecca Ryder, MA, NCC, LPCC-S, Managing Clinical Supervisor for Encompass East Counseling to...

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...

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

Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) is an evidenced-based model for parenting traumatized youth. This relational approach to...

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

Encourage’s director, Shawn Pedani, LISW-S, reflects on the year . . . Our team recently had a year-end get-together and reflected on all...

Faith is an integral part of our culture at Encourage. Sometimes the faith component in fostering starts as a gentle nudge. A knock at...

Like many other children, when December comes around our children enjoy carefully writing out “Wish Lists” to send to Santa. They...