Our Partners

A Precious Child's mission is to provide children in need with opportunities and resources to empower them to achieve their full potential. They assist children and families facing difficult life challenges such as abuse, neglect, crisis situations, and poverty through their "Cradle to Career" Initiatives. The "Cradle to Career" Initiatives include providing basic essentials such as clothing, coats, shoes, household goods, basic hygiene, diapers, wipes, and baby gear to families in need.

Providing critical early childhood education, innovative pathways to employment, and parent-driven family support services for people with special needs and other life challenges.

To provide our students with a positive school community, rigorous academic program, and the skill development necessary to succeed in the world.

Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council (ACECC) is a collaborative promoting high quality programs and services which support a safe, smart, and healthy start for young children and their families in Arapahoe County. ACECC's Quality Improvement Team works with early childhood centers, programs, and staff to encourage quality care and learning through trainings and one on one coaching. Their Family Support Team consists of in-home visitation programs and resource navigators to educate and support families with young kids.

Enhancing your quality of life through exceptional delivery of services and efficient use of public funds.

Today, Archway Communities is committed to elevating lives by providing access to affordable housing, food security and the supportive social services people need to thrive.

Aurora Mental Health & Recovery is a SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) grantee offering services to address a wide range of mental health conditions. Individuals and families rely on us to help them cope with a variety of challenges. Our staff of physicians, nurses, psychologists, therapists, and peers works with all age groups, from children to seniors. We start by getting to know you so we can accurately assess your needs. From there we connect you with counseling, classes, and other services that can help you achieve optimal mental health. When you’re looking for assistance in managing a mental illness, reaching out is typically the hardest step.

The APS Welcome Center supports refugee and immigrant families in their navigation of and adjustment to the APS educational system, and students in achieving educational success.

Bienvenidos Pantry – An ongoing resource for those who need emergency or supplemental food, offering a variety of foods where families may “shop” for what they need. The pantry is open weekly for clients, conveniently in the morning and evening, and we make it a priority to always provide healthy choices such as fresh produce knowing that many people cannot afford to buy fresh food.

The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Primary focus areas for us today are investing in early childhood well-being and education, greatly expanding access to affordable and decent housing in our community, and integrating the services we deliver and our data systems so we can provide every neighbor who seeks our help the full range of supports they need.

GENESIS helps children get their best start in life. The home visiting program supports healthy parenting practices within teen parent families in Boulder County. Services are provided to teen parents from pregnancy through the child’s third birthday. GENESIS provides high-quality family support services according to the Healthy Families America® home visiting model.

Improving the lives of children and youth who have experienced abuse, neglect, or other life challenges, by connecting them with volunteer advocates and activating community partnerships

Our mission is to recruit, train and manage volunteers who serve as independent lay advocates for children who are victims of neglect and physical and/or sexual abuse. Our hope is that all children will have a CASA volunteer as someone to pay attention, someone to give the child a voice, someone to care.

The Center for Work Education and Employment (CWEE) supports vulnerable workers, mostly single moms, to train for and launch careers. CWEE addresses the root causes of poverty by providing a path to long-term employment for hundreds of Denver-area families each year.

The City of Lakewood offers a wide range of programs and levels of financial assistance for preschool-aged children. Parents are encouraged to enroll their child as soon as possible because of limited availability in some programs. Please feel free to ask staff to clarify any questions you may have regarding the descriptions. All information you provide will be confidential.

Clayton Early Learning is an innovation hub that fosters thriving, equitable communities by partnering with families to nurture a whole child, whole family approach to the early years, discover what works, and advance systems change.

Clear Creek County Public and Environmental Health provides services to promote, protect, and improve the lifelong health of individuals and our community. This department offers a variety of services in association with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and other local partnerships.

Clinica Family Health is a community health center, a medical safety net for those who otherwise might fall through the cracks of the American health care system. For more than 40 years, Clinica has existed to provide health care to the individuals and families in our community at a price they can afford. Young or old, people of any race or ethnicity or income level—we are here to provide them with exceptional health care because no one should have to choose between obtaining the health care they need and other necessities such as housing or food.

CAMP is a prenatal support program for expecting mothers age 20 years old and under receiving care at University Hospital Anschutz. Our team is here to help you and your baby stay healthy, happy and strong! At the Colorado Adolescent Maternity Program (CAMP), we offer a unique, integrated health care approach. Our team of care coordinator, clinical social worker, dietician, psychologist, and ob/gyn work together to provide comprehensive physical and emotional care for expecting others.

Colorado Community Health Alliance (CCHA) was founded in 2010 specifically to meet the needs of Health First Colorado (Colorado’s Medicaid Program) members. CCHA combines the extensive resources of Elevance Health, Centura Health, Physician Health Partners and Primary Physician Partners. Our partnership brings an influential blend of primary care providers, specialists, hospitals, behavioral health services and medical/behavioral health management services to drive innovation within the Medicaid delivery system. To achieve this, it is critical that we promote collaborative relationships among the health neighborhood, bringing together broad sectors of the community that touch the lives of Health First Colorado members. Our established partnerships provide a solid foundation to address all aspects of a member’s health and well-being.

Community Food Share’s mission is to eliminate hunger in Boulder and Broomfield Counties through engagement, collaboration, and leadership.

The mission of Covenant Cupboard Food Pantry is to address the food security needs of seniors, disabled individuals, and the unemployed or underemployed households in our community in a compassionate, dignified and secure environment.

Founded in 1995, DCAC is part of a national community of Child Advocacy Centers that are revolutionizing the response to child abuse. Our programs fall along a three-part continuum of care that includes community outreach, rapid response, and treatment and integrated services. We strive to meet the needs of all traumatized children, as well as those at risk of abuse.

Denver Indian Family Resource Center (DIFRC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization serving the Denver metro area. Our agency was founded in 2000 to respond to the overrepresentation of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) families involved in the child welfare system. Culturally-responsive services continue to be needed. By way of initiatory partnership with Casey Family Programs, DIFRC serves to meet this need through direct services and systems change efforts.

Denver Public Schools is working with the City of Denver and community partners to open community hubs. These hubs are a key part of our strategy. We understand that some students find it hard to learn because they are hungry, tired, hurt, sad, or have other basic needs. The hubs will provide services to address these needs. We know that families and communities work hard to care for their kids, so the hubs will also support family and community members. We will use research to guide how we provide services. With these supports, all students will have an equal chance to learn and thrive.

Denver Public Schools is working with the City of Denver and community partners to open community hubs. These hubs are a key part of our strategy. We understand that some students find it hard to learn because they are hungry, tired, hurt, sad, or have other basic needs. The hubs will provide services to address these needs. We know that families and communities work hard to care for their kids, so the hubs will also support family and community members. We will use research to guide how we provide services. With these supports, all students will have an equal chance to learn and thrive.

Developmental Pathways (DP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and one of Colorado’s twenty Community Centered Boards (CCB) connecting people to federal, state, county, and private funding. We are also a designated Case Management Agency (CMA) for long-term care services. We are also Colorado’s largest Early Intervention (EI) provider and help connect young children with lifelong disabilities to essential resources.

The Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County is cultivating an effective early childhood ecosystem for children from birth through age five and their families in Adams County. We define an effective early childhood ecosystem as one where every child and family in Adams County has equitable access to the high-quality and affordable services and supports they need to thrive.

Early Learning Ventures is dedicated to expanding access to quality, affordable child care. We focus our efforts on improving the quality of early child care programs – 85% of which are small, independent businesses that lack the infrastructure and resources to invest in quality improvements.

The African Community Center of Denver (ACC) is a non-profit resettlement agency whose mission is to help refugees and immigrants rebuild safe, sustainable lives in Colorado. ACC was founded in 2001 as a branch office of our parent organization, the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC).

Every Child Pediatrics mission is to provide high-quality health care to all children, regardless of their families insurance status or ability to pay. Programs and services provided by ECP include counseling and behavioral health services alongside primary medical services and dental care. Care navigators help families apply for benefits, and help families connect to community resources for housing, clothing, transportation, food, education and other needs. Other programs are Reach out and Read, School-Based Health Centers, Nutrition Services, Edna's Pantry, Thrive Clinic, Get Fit, and Confidential Contraceptive Services.

Families Forward Resource Center (FFRC) is a full service community service center providing supportive services and programs to northeast Denver and north Aurora, CO. FFRC operates as a collaborative organization. No matter what need comes up, either FFRC is prepared to address it, or we have a partnership in place that can provide the necessary support.

Through Montessori Curriculum and other leading educational systems, we create learning environments that help guide and develop children. We seek to develop the whole child by providing high-quality, integrated environments and supports that educate children, strengthen families, and build community.

Family Tree is a non-profit human services agency providing innovative, life-changing services designed to end child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness.

Our mission is to educate, prepare, and empower teen mothers and their children. We break the cycle of poverty for two generations–teen mother and child–through education, health and wellness, and economic and social asset building. Our trauma-informed, two-generation service model more than doubles the national high school graduation rate of teen mothers and ensures that their children are kindergarten-ready.

Foster Source, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, empowers Colorado foster and kinship parents with vital services across Colorado. These include free trauma-informed classes (covering topics like trauma, special education, and therapy) facilitated by expert panels. Foster and Kinship families in Colorado with open child welfare cases can access training, therapy, respite, and relief items like weighted blankets, car seats, and mattresses. The Ambassador Program connects families with resources, meaningful relationships, and trauma-informed education within their counties. The agency also provides mental health support through therapy sessions and equine-assisted parenting practice labs. These services nurture caregivers, support children in care, and sustain a commitment to fostering.

Glass Hearts provides a safe place for young dads age 16-21 to deal with real issues such as: finding a job and moving towards a career, abusive background, fear, anxiety, loss of identity, education needs, job skills, parenting, and many more. If you are a dad contacting them, they respond within 24 hours.

In partnership with the community, Growing Home advances equity in food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability to create lasting change for the future.

For the past 8 years, Hope in Our City has served refugee and impoverished families in the Sun Valley neighborhood through educational and mentorship programs. We have offered supplementary programs to holistically strengthen families, including after school enrichment and intervention, adult ESL, youth leadership and development, Bible studies, teen Alpha, Summer Kids Club, citizenship and entrepreneurial classes.

We support children and families in Huerfano and Las Animas Counties through partnerships which promote healthy kids, families and communities through self-sufficiency.

Jeffco Prosperity Partners (JPP) is a community, supporting families moving from poverty to prosperity through a multi-generation approach – students to diploma and parents to self-defined prosperity.

Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) is a nationally accredited health department [external link] committed to promoting health and preventing injury and disease for the residents of Jefferson County, Colorado. Public health is what we as a society do collectively to prevent illness and premature death and promote health in our neighborhoods and communities.

Giving families the support they need to ease their journey through the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) both at the hospital and beyond.

Maple Star Colorado is an independent, non-profit organization providing foster care, clinical, and community support services in the state of Colorado. Maple Star delivers exceptional value by creating healthy communities through exceptional people working side by side. Our trauma-specific approach provides individualized and holistic services that promote wellness, durability, and healing through the context of relationship. Our program staff as well as all of our foster families are skilled and trained utilizing trauma informed care approaches when working with at-risk populations.

Identify, recruit and support migrant families by providing services effectively, allowing them to achieve their educational goals. The Migrant Education Program is an educational program designed to provide supplemental education services to the families of migratory agricultural workers. The Metro program is based out of Aurora Public Schools, but supports migrant students in the Denver metro area. As part of Colorado’s education system, all information is maintained confidentially.

Since 1960, Mile High Behavioral Healthcare has empowered individuals to shape healthy, viable, complete lives. Our care is vital to those on the fringes of our community—individuals struggling to hold on and move forward. For high-risk, high-need individuals, there are significant barriers to services. We are there for them with life-changing care.

Providing a quality educational experience, inspired by the Montessori approach, for children farthest from resources.

MotherWise supports women, children and their families during pregnancy and after a baby is born. Their workshops focus on communicating, solving family problems, and proven information on caring for and connecting with a newborn. Families also receive one-on-one coaching to navigate work, life, family, and your new baby.

The mission of New Legacy Charter School is to provide parenting students with the skills needed to raise healthy children and to engage all students in personalized projects and experiences that develop college and career awareness and readiness.

Serving refugees by providing necessary support in initial welcome, turning their house into a home, and helping guide and support families so they are able to quickly get on their feet.

To provide programs that foster community, self-sufficiency and increase quality of life among Denver-area refugees.

Reflections for Women is a 16-bed, approved Medicaid provider, where women can recover from the disease of addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders in a safe and confidential environment. We also provide specialized services to pregnant women and women with infant children where children who are 15 months or younger can reside with their mothers in treatment. Our program utilizes evidenced based and gender responsive methods to assist individuals in learning healthy coping skills and changing unhealthy behaviors to become self-sufficient, confident, and productive members of our community!

Shiloh House offers youth and families support and services to overcome challenges, enhancing their success in the community.

Stork Support of Northern Colorado is a growing nonprofit organization led by committed community members passionate about providing essential maternity, postpartum and newborn needs to under-resourced families from pregnancy and throughout the baby's first year. We collect gently-used maternity, nursing and baby clothes and gear from the abundance within our community, turn these donations into gift boxes and distribute support boxes to NoCO families. Stork Support also collects donations of new items, such as needed essentials to prepare Postpartum Recovery Kits for parents who have recently given birth and formula to fed our community's babies. Stork Support has been serving Northern Colorado families since 2018 and continues because every new family is worthy of a strong start through support.

The Gathering Place (TGP) offers services to combat poverty and address the impacts of marginalization and oppression that are often contributing factors to poverty or homelessness. By offering low-barrier access to a broad range of basic necessities and wrap-around care options, TGP guides women, transgender and non-binary individuals, and children living in poverty from a place of crisis and instability to one of stability and security. While we refer to those we serve as "members," no fees are ever charged for programs or services.

Empowering youth from 2nd grade through two years post-secondary through responsive Out-of-School-Time programming. All are welcome to visit our Resource Center at 2758 Welton St, open Mon-Thu from 1:00pm-5:00pm. We offer food, clothing/housewares, and baby gear as well as harm reduction supplies and other resource navigation.

The Spring Institutes mission is to empower people and organizations to succeed across languages and cultures. Programs offered are Adult Education and Career Pathways, Colorado Welcome Back, Advocacy, The Interpreter Network, Project Shine, anf Early Childhood Education.

We create a community where single mother-led refugee families can easily access the resources they need and make use of the skills they have to succeed in this country.

Warren Village is a Colorado nonprofit serving unhoused and unstably housed low-income single-parent families in the Denver area. We provide families with the space and resources to achieve economic mobility and navigate and disrupt systems of poverty. Warren Village utilizes a 2Gen approach to empower both parents and their children through life skills classes, a high-quality Early Learning Center, education and career support, and resource navigation. Warren Village currently serves families at three locations: our main building on Gilpin; Ivy Crossing Apartments, a satellite location in partnership with BLDG that provides resources to residents who live there; and First Step, a residential communal living space for teen mothers and their children attending high school at Florence Crittenton Services.

Women’s Bean Project is a transitional employment program serving women who have struggled to obtain and maintain employment. When we hire women, they enter the role of production assistant and work in our food manufacturing business, making and packaging all the products we sell.