ARIEL Clinical Services
Ariel Clinical Services was founded in 1994. Our offices are located in Grand Junction, Denver-Metro, and Colorado Springs. We offer Foster Care services for children 0-21, we have specialized homes for CHRP children and adjudicated Youth. We also provide Para-Professional Behavioral Skills Coaches and supervised visits for families in the community, at our location and in the family home. www.arielcpa.org/ Contact: Deborah Blumenthal (303) 703.9351 dblumenthal@arielcpa.org
Bethany Christian Services
Bridges CPA
We seek to partner with others in our community to make a difference serving families throughout Colorado. Bridges focuses on providing nurturing, structured homes for children to begin healing from abuse or abandonment. Responding to the call to love our neighbors, we seek to strengthen our community by connecting children in need with loving, highly skilled foster parents who are deeply committed to cultivating strong character in children. www.bridgescpa.com Contact: Gregory Hinkle (719) 583.2200
Denver Area Youth Services
DAYS offers foster care programs for teen mothers and their children at the Kearney Street Program, therapeutic foster care for youth 2-17 through Family Connection and transitional foster care for Division of Youth Corrections' youth in our Proctor Care program. www.denveryouth.org Contact: Sarah McLean 303.302.3263
Dungarvin Colorado
Dungarvin is a Child Placement Agency serving children and adults with cognitive, physical, medical and behavioral challenges living in the Denver and Colorado Springs metro areas. Dungarvin has operated in Colorado since 1991, and over the last 32 years has provided similar services in 13 other states and the District of Columbia. www.dungarvin.com Contact: Paul Strange 303.423.7660
Frontier Family Services
We are a private, non-profit, CPA which provides residential services to children with special needs, including developmental disabilities, emotional or psychological problems, medical needs—especially medically fragile, or any other challenges which require out-of-home-care. We strive to provide children with the most normal lifestyle in the least restrictive environment. www.frontierfamily.net Contact: Susan Talley (303) 702.0952 s.talley816@q.com
Gateway Youth and Family
www.commonworks.net/gateway.php
Griffith Centers for Children - Chins Up
80 years of Healing today, Hope for tomorrow-serving the Colorado Springs community and the State of Colorado as a non-profit organization, creating healing opportunities for troubled children and their families. As a child placement agency, we provide foster care, foster adopt, group home care, residential services and sibling group placement services. www.griffithcenters.org
Imagine!
Imagine! specializes in serving children with developmental disabilities. We are committed to keeping children with developmental disabilities out of institutionalized settings and instead finding creative ways to maintain and improve the lives of children with difficult behaviors in the community. Imagine's goal is to help individuals aspire to and achieve a fulfilling life of new possibilities. www.imaginecolorado.org Contact: Jodi Walters (303) 926.6464
Journeys
JOURNEYS, Inc., CPS was established in 2004, to provide the highest level of reputable, experienced, safe and quality foster care families for foster youth of all ages. JOURNEYS' foster family homes are located primarily in Pueblo County, Southern Colorado and within the Arkansas Valley. JOURNEYS also has a unique foster youth program: 'Kommon Ground' which offers foster youth a peer to peer support network as well as unique website: www.kommongrnd.org.
www.journeyscps.org
Kids Crossing
Kids Crossing is a foster care & adoption agency started in 1992 BY foster parents FOR foster parents. Due to the strong commitment of our foster parent, we have since expanded to provide quality services, including group home care, in Colorado Springs, Denver & Pueblo. www.kidscrossing.com In Denver, call Amy Harder (303) 330.5083 In Colorado Springs, call Melissa Parkowski at (719) 321.6254 or mparkowski@kidscrossing.com. In Pueblo, call Roxann Cadwell (719) 545.3882 rcadwell@kidscrossing.com
Life Line Foster Care Agency
Visit our website at: www.lifelinefostercare.com
Contact dgaines@lifelinefostercare.com
Lost and Found
Established in 1979, Lost and Found is a non-profit, Christian-based agency serving the nation by providing prevention, intervention, and treatment resources to youth and families. Our CPA is part of a broad continuum of therapeutic services that includes residential, transitional, and outpatient care.
www.lostandfoundinc.com Contact: Marisa Salazar 303.420.8080 Ext. 1124 or Brooke Davidson at Ext. 1106 for referrals only.
Lutheran Family Services of CO
LFSCO is a statewide, faith-based human care agency serving over 40,000 people/year. Celebrating 62 yrs of service in 2010, foster care is our largest program area, with 160 foster homes serving over 200 children/night. www.lfsco.org Contact: Metro Denver - Shannon Stricker (303) 217.5858; Northern Colorado - Sarah Eisbrener (970) 232-1141; Southern Colorado - Joyce Neighbors (719) 314-0214.
Maple Star of Colorado
http://www.maplestar.net/ In Colorado Springs, please call (719) 635.6080 and in Denver, please call (303) 433.1975
North Metro Community Services has provided residential placement and Day Program services for over 30 years. We serve children and adults with developmental disabilities. We have a variety of residential placement options, and put emphasis on therapeutic foster homes, host homes, and group homes. NMCS specializes in medical and behavioral needs, and has vast resources to care for the people in our services. The goal of NMCS is teaching life skills to adults and children with developmental disabilities to prepare them for community living. www.nmetro.org. Contact: Zach Smith at 303-255-6521 or zach.smith@nmetro.org
Parker Personal Care Homes
PPCH strives to provide quality, therapeutic foster homes for children with developmental disabilities and special needs who may otherwise be unsuitable for the foster home setting due to these needs. http://www.parkerpch.com/residential.htm Contact: Amy Taylor (303) 424.6078 Ext. 108
Savio House is a non-profit agency, established in 1966. We offer a continuum of care that strengthens families and prevents child abuse, neglect and youth delinquency. Our Child Placement Agency provides family foster homes for children of all ages and group homes for teens, which offer independent living services. Several of our homes serve developmentally disabled youth, ages 12-21. http://www.saviohouse.org/ Contact Danielle McDowell at 303/225-4108 or dmcdowell@saviohouse.org
Smith Agency Inc.
Smith Agency/Serenity Homes is an agency for children and adults with developmental disabilities many of whom are dually diagnosed. We provide a wide range of services and strive to prepare individuals to contribute to their community. Contact: Carrie Baroffio (303) 699.1060 or (720) 290.0286
Special Kids/Special Families
Special Kids/Special Families is a CPA promoting, strengthening, &
supporting individuals with disabilities. We accept foster children with any need, including developmental disabilities. www.sksfcolorado.org Contact: Linda Ellegard (719) 447.8983 Ext. 11.
Synthesis
Synthesis, founded in 1975, provides alternative care and support to children with special medical needs and developmental delays, while advocating for permanency and "normalization" in their lives. www.commonworks.net Contact: Alletta Bode or Carrie Natale (303) 422.4336
WhimSpire
WhimSpire is a non-profit agency serving the State of Colorado in three distinct Regions. We employ the Circle of Courage, a Native American Parenting Philosophy, as a framework for working with our foster families and their children.
www.whimSpire.com Contact: Karla Moore (719) 963.8242 karla.m@commonworks.org
