Comfort Cottage, 9 years old, PA

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The Comfort Cottage is a place where children in foster care have visits with their birth families in a home-like atmosphere. Before the Cottage was established, visits were taking place in windowless and dreary rooms in an office building. Now families visit in a little house, in brightly painted rooms with very nice toys and lots of sunshine and space. There is even a full bathroom for parents who would like to bathe their infants, a kitchen for parents to make lunch for their children, and a yard with a playhouse. Meeting in the Comfort Cottage allows children and their birth parents to have quality visits.

The Comfort Cottage is a special place where children in foster care and their biological family can visit together and spend time connecting and nurturing their relationship while they are separated. They are placing a wish for these toys to inspire imaginative play for the children and parents. Imaginative play can help the family build their communication and self -expression.