Family Support Services help children, parents in Colorado foster care
Raise the Future offers in-home coaching for foster and adoptive families to help them make deeper connections.
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Raise the Future offers in-home coaching for foster and adoptive families to help them make deeper connections.
Colorado-founded Hope & Home among foster parent licensing agencies across the state.
Several Denver County caseworkers were recently honored by the state for their commitment to excellence.
Cora & Stan raised their three children, then started doing foster care because of the need for good families.
As Colorado moves away from residential care facilities for youth in foster care, it's more important than ever to have certified foster care families.
June is Reunification Month, and Colorado Department of Human Services held a celebration.
During Foster Care Awareness Month, the Colorado Department of Human Services honored foster parents who are making a huge difference.
Cobbled Streets commissioned a play that will help audiences understand what children go through when they experience the foster care system.
The need for foster families in Colorado is great, but the need for therapeutic foster homes is even greater.
When Aaron was profiled on Wednesday's Child he hoped for a place to call home, now that dream is reality.
Jody and Kevin have fostered about 150 children and adopted eight, but they always believe there is a place for biological connections in their family.
When children are taken out of a home, few people support the birth parents. Nikki Sanchez is uniquely qualified to do that.
Heather Piper has been a foster parent for 10 years and says that teens are her jam.
Raise the Future Family Navigator Cathy Howe has spent a lifetime understanding and caring for people involved in the foster care system.
Raise the Future received a gift of dozens of quilts from the Rocky Mountain Wa Shonaji Quilt Guild for teens living in foster care.
Raise the Future coordinates the Colorado Heart Gallery in partnership with the Colorado Department of Human Services.
Josiah and Julian were featured on Wednesday's Child and found their permanent parent.
Nearly half of the children living in foster care in Colorado are living in kinship care, which means they're living with relatives, neighbors, or friends.
Aria Williams relies on her own foster care experience as a Youth Connections Advocate for Raise the Future.
Kelly Farrier has spent the last six years educating Coloradans about adoption from foster care.
Kevin Tydlaska-Dziedzic was a Wednesday's Child when he was 10, and had a hard path to become who he is today.
Colorado needs more families to open their homes to children who need a safe place to stay. One couple decided to care for some of the most challenging children.
Raise the Future works with older youth in foster care, kinship placements, and families who've adopted, and this Christmas is going to be extra special.
This Giving Tuesday and as part of Colorado Gives Day, we are highlighting the life-changing work done by Raise the Future. The nonprofit organization connects foster children with permanent families by using child-focused recruitment, adoption resources, and long-term family support.
National Adoption Day is celebrated in many of Colorado's judicial districts in November, with judges and magistrates across Colorado finalizing the adoptions of dozens of foster children into permanent, loving families.
Effective Sept. 1, crimes for some fatal crashes could be charged as criminally negligent homicide, a Class 5 felony carrying up to three years in prison.
The owner of a Fort Collins birth center and a midwife have been arrested following a police investigation that began after officers responded to a 911 call involving a distressed newborn.
Raise the Future offers in-home coaching for foster and adoptive families to help them make deeper connections.
There is speculation that legendary country singer and songwriter Garth Brooks may be performing at Grizzly Rose on Thursday night.
Huston Lake was once a spot for residents of Denver's Athmar Park neighborhood to gather. This year, the water is nearly nonexistent.
Effective Sept. 1, crimes for some fatal crashes could be charged as criminally negligent homicide, a Class 5 felony carrying up to three years in prison.
The owner of a Fort Collins birth center and a midwife have been arrested following a police investigation that began after officers responded to a 911 call involving a distressed newborn.
Raise the Future offers in-home coaching for foster and adoptive families to help them make deeper connections.
There is speculation that legendary country singer and songwriter Garth Brooks may be performing at Grizzly Rose on Thursday night.
Huston Lake was once a spot for residents of Denver's Athmar Park neighborhood to gather. This year, the water is nearly nonexistent.
The case of alleged ecoterrorism happened in Grand County, Colorado, in 2022.
Raise the Future offers in-home coaching for foster and adoptive families to help them make deeper connections.
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The Denver Broncos want to help boost school attendance for students across Colorado.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking people to grab their fishing poles and head to Hugo Ponds to catch some fish.
Tiger Woods has pled no contest to a charge of reckless driving months after pleading not guilty to two misdemeanor charges.
The sale ends the turbulent 23-year ownership for business mogul Arte Moreno.
The legal wrangling comes with the clock ticking toward Colorado's season opener at Georgia Tech on Sept. 3.
Lionel Messi played in six World Cups and led Argentina to win the tournament in 2022 in Qatar.
Cale Makar is back for eight more years, Colorado Avalanche fans!
Meta upgrades its AI glasses' privacy features to block device users from filming people without their consent.
A trade deal with Canada is about to give Chinese EV makers already grabbing major market share elsewhere a foothold just over the Detroit River.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has docked in eastern Thailand after its grueling deployment in the Middle East.
Tiger Woods has pled no contest to a charge of reckless driving months after pleading not guilty to two misdemeanor charges.
Chevron, the only U.S. oil company operating in Venezuela, said it has received additional land in the Orinoco Belt region and plans to double its oil production.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has docked in eastern Thailand after its grueling deployment in the Middle East.
At least 20 generals, admirals and civilian defense leaders have been fired or have departed their jobs since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary at the beginning of the second Trump administration.
GOP leaders scheduled the vote after Democratic primary voters embraced a number of democratic socialist candidates.
President Trump framed last week's deal for the U.S. government to take a stake in Venezuelan oil as a boon for the depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But the plan faces some hurdles, experts say.
The House on Tuesday passed a measure to extend government funding into December, averting a shutdown in the final stretch of the midterm campaign.
Clean air advocates are asking local and state leaders in Colorado to act on the unhealthy ozone levels and their impacts.
If passed, the legislation would expand eligibility for residents in 57 Colorado zip codes to get compensation based on a list of eligible diseases and cancers, and would include coverage for workers and residents known as "downwinders."
On Monday, health officials confirmed the first case of West Nile Virus found in Weld County this year.
The White House said the agreements will reduce costs to treat Parkinson's disease, macular degeneration, glaucoma, liver disease and other illnesses.
The president of New Beginnings Recovery Center says they were informed that their contract to serve members with Medicaid is expiring in February 2027.
Meta upgrades its AI glasses' privacy features to block device users from filming people without their consent.
A trade deal with Canada is about to give Chinese EV makers already grabbing major market share elsewhere a foothold just over the Detroit River.
Chevron, the only U.S. oil company operating in Venezuela, said it has received additional land in the Orinoco Belt region and plans to double its oil production.
President Trump framed last week's deal for the U.S. government to take a stake in Venezuelan oil as a boon for the depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But the plan faces some hurdles, experts say.
A potential wiring issue could lead to vehicles losing power or disruption of other functions, such as windshield wipers and headlights.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's security detail drew his gun on a man at Union Station last week, the mayor's office said Monday.
Denver City Attorney Faces Second Ethics Complaint, This One Over DIA Legal Work
An anonymous Denver city employee has filed an ethics complaint against City Attorney Miko Brown, alleging she may have violated the Denver Code of Ethics in connection with the city's hiring of the law firm where Brown previously worked.
The city of Denver is paying four lawyers at an outside law firm as much as $800 an hour to defend the city in two employee lawsuits, despite being in a $200 million deficit.
Colorado's hemp-derived THC industry could see major changes later this year, though a federal crackdown scheduled for November may be temporarily postponed.