About the Nonprofit
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Heart of Courage focuses on mentoring and advocating for women who have had their child placed in Child Protective Services and wish to be reunited with their child and create a better life for themselves. Since our inception, we have been able to extend our reach to working with mothers who have aged out of the foster care and the cycle of foster care placement is continuing with their children or there is a strong possibility that it could happen. The overall purpose of our program is to help the mothers in our program become self-sufficient both mentally, emotionally and physically so that they can become better individuals and better mothers to their children. The end result being children united with their mothers into a loving and sustainable environment.
Our original goal was to help with the large number of placements in foster care. We believed that if possible, children should be with their mother, when she is willing to work hard to make the changes in her life to create a positive and sustainable future her and her child. What we begin to learn and continue to learn is that these mothers need a voice. That many of them have a story and their story deserves to be told. We learned that these mothers have incredible strengths, strengths they don’t realize that they have until you as their mentor point it out to them. These mothers have fought abuse of all kinds, teen parents at 12 and 13, addictions, homelessness, abandonment, mental health and yet they continue to fight for their children. They continue to desire to provide a better life for their children then they had. They just need the support and encouragement; encouragement that they may have never had. We try to offer that to them.
Heart of Courage is completely volunteer. We know that the women in our program, genuinely want to benefit from our array of services, such as education and advocacy, one on one mentoring, parent support groups, job readiness, educational services and community outreach.
