Adoption from foster care impacts future of Colorado woman
When parents decide to adopt a child out of foster care, it can have a profound impact on their biological children.
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When parents decide to adopt a child out of foster care, it can have a profound impact on their biological children.
Raise the Future is helping parents learn new ways to connect with their kids who have experienced trauma.
Laura Schippert and her family have been involved in helping Raise the Future for a long time.
Trust based relational intervention, or TBRI, gives parents specific tools that help children heal from trauma.
Ann Ayers spoke about "breaking the cycle" and trying to make adoptions out of foster care happen in Colorado.
The nonprofit Raise the Future has more than 40 years of experience helping children in Colorado who are in foster care.
CBS News Colorado profiles children living in foster care each week on Wednesday's Child. It's a big win when they find a family.
Raise the Future has become a statewide resource for a trauma informed, child centered intervention for caring for vulnerable children.
There are multiple children who have been featured on A Day for Wednesday's Child who are still in foster care.
Part of A Day for Wednesday's Child includes sharing success stories of those children from Wednesday's Child reports who have found loving homes, thanks to Raise the Future.
Families who have been helped by Raise the Future gathered at Boondocks on Wednesday as part of A Day for Wednesday's Child.
American Furniture Warehouse presented Raise the Future with a $10,000 check.
VooDoo Doughnuts teams up with CBS Colorado and Raise the Future for A Day for Wednesday's Child where 15% of proceeds between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on April 16 at three Denver metro locations benefit Raise the Future.
Raise the Future and A Day for Wednesday's Child help connect kids to caring adults and Mariana Pino, VP of Colorado Programs with Raise the Future, talks about why those services for children are so important.
Raise the Future is a nonprofit that works to place children in homes in Colorado.
CBS News Colorado's first-ever Wednesday's Child recalls being adopted by a family and how it led him to become a contributing member to society.
Raise the Future teaches TBRI as a way to connect with children who have experienced trauma.
The work of Raise the Future helps families across Colorado.
Madison and Tierenny arrived at American Furniture Warehouse with their adopted sons Dominic and Elijah, along with their young daughter Katella and a clear idea of what they wanted to bring home.
Gov. Jared Polis read the "Day for Wednesday's Child" proclamation at the state Capitol on Wednesday.
CBS Colorado and Raise the Future are presenting A Day for Wednesday's Child on April 17.
Raise the Future has helped many children who were in foster care in Colorado find homes.
As we round out National Adoption Month in Colorado, 12-year-old My'Kail Starr is sharing his journey to adoption, in hopes of inspiring other kids still waiting for their permanent families.
Raise the Future specializes in finding caring adults for older kids, sibling groups, and young people with special needs who are living in foster care.
The VP of Programs Lucinda Wayland Connelly spoke about Raise the Future on A Day for Wednesday's Child.
The Board of Douglas County Commissioners business meeting became heated, with anger over the recent removal of general public comment and a resolution committing tax dollars to sheriff's deputies' legal costs.
Breck Create's Precious Plastics studio in Breckenridge hit a milestone this winter, diverting 10,000 pounds of plastic from the landfill since launching in 2021.
A man will spend nearly 30 years in prison after shooting a man at his birthday party in Northern Colorado in 2024.
A federal grand jury refused to indict six Democrats who drew President Trump's ire by taping a video telling members of the military that they must reject "illegal orders," three sources told CBS News.
A resident in the Denver metro area had a surprise visit last week after ordering food when an officer showed up at their door.
The Board of Douglas County Commissioners business meeting became heated, with anger over the recent removal of general public comment and a resolution committing tax dollars to sheriff's deputies' legal costs.
Breck Create's Precious Plastics studio in Breckenridge hit a milestone this winter, diverting 10,000 pounds of plastic from the landfill since launching in 2021.
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A resident in the Denver metro area had a surprise visit last week after ordering food when an officer showed up at their door.
Colorado State Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet announced her resignation on Tuesday as she prepares to take a position with a nonprofit.
The Board of Douglas County Commissioners business meeting became heated, with anger over the recent removal of general public comment and a resolution committing tax dollars to sheriff's deputies' legal costs.
Some of Colorado's Congressional leaders decried another round of layoffs at the National Laboratory of the Rockies, formerly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden.
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Maxim Naumov's score Tuesday was enough to make it through the short program, giving him another opportunity to perform when the men's free skate takes place Friday night.
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Maxim Naumov's score Tuesday was enough to make it through the short program, giving him another opportunity to perform when the men's free skate takes place Friday night.
A source familiar with the White House's planning said exclusion of Democrats from a formal business meeting was deliberate — President Trump did not want them there.
Two NATO Joint Force Commands led by U.S. officers will transition to be European-led in an apparent answer to President Trump's calls for Europe to contribute more to its defense.
FBI Director Kash Patel posted videos of a person outside the home of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie, on the morning of her disappearance.
Ketanji Brown Jackson told "CBS Mornings" that the justices "have learned how to adapt to being in an environment with people who have very strongly held but different views."
A federal grand jury refused to indict six Democrats who drew President Trump's ire by taping a video telling members of the military that they must reject "illegal orders," three sources told CBS News.
Two lawmakers are accusing the government of improperly redacting some people's names from the Epstein files, including six men whose identities are now public.
A source familiar with the White House's planning said exclusion of Democrats from a formal business meeting was deliberate — President Trump did not want them there.
Some of Colorado's Congressional leaders decried another round of layoffs at the National Laboratory of the Rockies, formerly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden.
Two NATO Joint Force Commands led by U.S. officers will transition to be European-led in an apparent answer to President Trump's calls for Europe to contribute more to its defense.
The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that's a significant undercount.
Experts say Affordable Care Act sign-up data won't be clear until people who were enrolled have paid — or not — their new, often much higher, premiums.
Colorado health officials have issued a safety notice over batches of marijuana contaminated with yeast and mold sold in 31 stores across the state over the past two-and-a-half months.
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State and federal lawmakers went to Evergreen to call for changes to laws regarding how quickly social media and telecommunications companies have to respond to requests for information regarding credible threats.
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Former Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen, who retired as chief in 2022, plans to announce next week that he is running for a seat on Denver City Council.
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