Success for Life

Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries knows every child deserves the chance to be a kid.

We also know that children can better thrive when their parents are equipped to support the behaviors and challenges that arise when caring for children from hard places.

Every foster parent with Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries is assigned a Family Advocate who is highly trained in trauma-informed care and TBRI® caregiving. These advocates walk through life with the foster families under their care. They maintain a relationship with the family to make sure they have everything needed to be successful and create stability for the children in their care.

A Safe Place to Be a Child

We are committed to giving every child, who’s childhood up to this point has been marked with trauma, a safe family and a safe place to be a child.

Children under the care of our foster families are gifted items to enrich their childhood. One of our favorite gifts to give our children is a new bike and helmet, as many of them have never owned a bicycle. The Foster Care Community at Harrisburg also features wonderful opportunities for children to just have fun being a kid: huge playgrounds, basketball courts, a swimming lake that boasts a beach and water trampolines, a campsite with a fishing pond, a ball field, an equine program, and trails to explore.

Creating Success for Foster Families and Their Children

Every foster family is worth our investment of time and care.

By providing foster families with Family Advocates, trainings and resources, we help give the children in their care a chance at a successful future.

Secure Homes

The Need: Each year, hundreds of children enter foster care in mid-Missouri. This means hundreds of children in our neighborhoods are in unsafe homes.
The Solution: Research has long suggested that child abuse is known to repeat itself from one generation to the next. That’s why we create secure homes for children to live in, both at our fostering community in Harrisburg, MO, and in our licensed foster homes throughout mid-Missouri. At Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries, we are committed to creating a safe place to be a child.

Family Advocates

The Need: As the number of children entering foster care increases, licensing and retaining foster parents has become a tremendous challenge. This results in a lack of loving, supportive foster parents for children who desperately need them.
The Solution: We have a 98% retention rate of foster families, compared to the national rate of 50%. By licensing more foster parents, and then supporting those parents by assigning them a Family Advocate, we are helping to meet that challenge. Family Advocates are essential to the mission of Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries. A Family Advocate’s role is to ‘walk through life’ with our foster families, while also providing in-home coaching and mentoring for the foster families on a regular basis. They maintain a relationship with the family to make sure they have everything needed to be successful and create stability for their child.

Licensing and Training

The Need: New foster parents often find themselves overwhelmed and ill-equipped to manage the challenges associated with caring for children from hard places.
The Solution: At Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries, we don’t just provide classes to license new foster parents and then send them on their way. We also provide the resources and trainings to help those parents navigate the challenges they’ll experience while providing a temporary or forever home for a child in foster care. Foster parents stand in the gap to help a child heal from the trauma they’ve experienced and teach them valuable life skills. Foster parents play a vital role in a child’s story! We do all that we can to empower them, so that they can empower the children in their home and ultimately impact future generations.