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Opinion: Budget cuts create opportunities — child mental health and welfare should advance
By Edward D. Breslin Opinion
An army of volunteers is using Facetime, Zoom to protect Colorado foster kids during coronavirus
By Jennifer Brown News Primary category in which blog post is published
Opinion: Let’s celebrate those running toward suffering in our coronavirus world
By Edward D. Breslin Opinion
Despite reforms, the number of children dying of abuse and neglect in Colorado hasn’t subsided
By Jennifer Brown News Primary category in which blog post is published
A youth corrections center plagued by escapes, drugs and a riot is headed for a physical — and cultural — reorganization
Questions remain about whether the alterations at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center are enough to fix persistent problems within Colorado's Division of Youth Services
Most money spent in the child welfare system comes after kids are in foster care. What if that’s backwards?
A multi-county, privately funded project aims to flip the system to prevent kids from needing services in the first place.
Colorado has a big shortage of volunteers to speak up for foster kids in court
That gap has sparked Colorado court appointed special advocates to make a plea for more volunteers -- they want 2,020 new ones in 2020
Rural Colorado struggles to find foster homes as new federal law seeks to keep more kids out of group settings
Only 13 families volunteer in the vast, six-county San Luis Valley, where poverty presents one of several obstacles to placement
Turning the child welfare system upside down in Colorado isn’t easy, or cheap
New federal law focuses on child abuse prevention, forces states to look to foster families instead of institutions
Nicolais: A light in the darkness of the foster care system
How the late Kyle Forti and his wife, Hope, created a thriving program to engage more Coloradans in the foster care program
Opinion
Separated by the foster care system, a camp in the Colorado mountains is reuniting siblings
At Camp to Belong in Douglas County, foster kids get a week to repair sibling bonds while swimming and horseback riding
