Kerry Hankin, Foster Courage, Creating Stability for Children in Foster Care Through Healing Environment

Kerri Hankin, Founder of Courage Community Foster Care of Colorado talks openly about the importance of creating stability for children in foster care  though healling environments. her strategies in creating stability for foster children.  Kerri is very transparent in sharing her agencies process for interviewing foster parents, training, and support that has helped children find their last foster home with in Courage Community Foster Care. Kerri discusses challenging behaviors as well as caring for the drug exposed baby.  Nearly all children who come to Kerri’s agency experience their next move to be either returning to their family or adoption.  Kerri spells it out when she explains the level of trauma that occurs for a child with each move in the foster care system.  Kerri shares tips in what she and the families in her agency find to be the most helpful strategies to creating loving connection with children and to eliminate the moves from foster home to foster home.

Kerri is so committed to helping create stability for children in foster care that she has created a non-profit that offers short term support to foster parents throughout the state of Colorado.  How amazing is that?

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