Colorado Kids Belong (Part of America’s Kids Belong)

We dramatically improve the experiences and outcomes for kids in foster care, working to ensure they find safe, loving families, embraced by Foster Friendly Communities™ where they belong.

We help kids in foster care find belonging, and supports foster families as they do the hard work of standing in the gap for vulnerable children in our communities.

Fostering Front Door – We serve close to 5,000 individuals each year at the start of their fostering journeys. Our Fostering Front Door offers a safe, welcoming starting point to learn and find your “best YES” to care for kids and families involved in foster care.

Foster Friendly Communities – With close to 20,000 foster families on our Foster Friendly App, we are working to engage resources across communities to appreciate and support foster families the way we do other first-responders. The app offers local business discounts, Foster Friendly faith communities and one-stop access to all of a community’s nonprofit and civic support resources.

I Belong Project – Over the past 10 years close to 60 percent of the 3,000+ kids served by our I Belong Project have been matched with adoptive families. These are kids for whom reunification is no longer an option. Without IBP chances are high that they will age out alone and face often-dire consequences.

More about this organization

Our organization works across the country. Our Colorado Director lives in the Longmont area and has a local project for the whole SVVSD. This project not only includes inviting the community to be Foster Friendly but also a collaborative group that is putting on quarterly events to support and encourage foster, kinship and adoptive families.