Foster Care

After working in child welfare for two decades, Kerri Hankin started Courage Community Foster Care. She believed the establishment of supportive relationships with foster parents and careful matching would result in foster children remaining in one placement until permanency. Over the past 12 years in business, that theory has proven correct. Last year, Courage Community Foster Care served an average of 35 children; of those, there was a 30 percent return home/relative placement rate, 20 percent adoption rate and a 3 percent disruption rate (moving to another home).

As a small agency, Courage Community Foster Care prides themselves on providing individualized care and attention to each family, ensuring they feel safe, supported, and valued. Courage Community Foster Care believes that is best achieved by keeping services small and personal in scope. When certifying with Courage, you will have a dedicated individual working with you beginning with your first phone call about foster care. Courage Community Foster Care helps families navigate day to day challenges from when children are placed and walk alongside foster families until permanency is achieved.

The Executive Director Kerri Hankin holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) and has over 30 years of experience in child welfare in Colorado. She is a seasoned professional dedicated to improving the lives of children in the foster care system by emphasizing personalized care, stability, and advocacy for each child. Over the years, she has fostered collaborations with community partners and ensured the agency operates with integrity and compassion. Kerri’s expertise and commitment continue to positively impact the lives of vulnerable children, making her a respected figure in both social work and foster care communities.

Megan Finesilver, Program Director, brings lived experience to the table as a former kinship, foster, and adoptive Mom. She has a background in elementary education and special education and previously worked as a foster care caseworker in Philadelphia, PA. Having honed teaching skills in diverse educational settings, Megan brings a profound understanding of children with special needs and behavioral challenges. Transitioning into foster care, she applies her insights to advocate for and support foster children, many of whom have complex educational needs.

Courage Community Foster Care is built on the belief that strong relationships with foster families ensures positive outcomes for children in their care. We help families develop their skills in working with children and systems so that together we can provide an optimal environment for healing. Courage Community Foster Care staff are always happy to talk about foster care, and welcome questions! If you are ready to become part of a foster care revolution, please contact Kerri Hankin, Executive Director, or Megan Finesilver, Program Director.

Courage Community Foster Care

Address: P.O. Box 3228 Littleton, CO 80161-3228

E-mail: kerrih@fostercourage.com; meganf@fostercourage.com

Phone: Kerri (719) 321-4319; Megan (720) 397-3387

Dungarvin was established in 1975 and provides services nationally. Dungarvin Colorado specializes in therapeutic foster homes, providing foster care to children ages 0 to 21. The CPA assists potential providers through the licensing process. Dungarvin focuses on making a good match for the provider and the child or children. Dungarvin staff have expertise in serving people with diverse needs, and provides extensive training for foster care providers including medication administration and crisis intervention. The CPA offers individualized training opportunities, 24/7 crisis intervention and monthly support groups. For additional information on how to become part of the Dungarvin family, please contact MaryAnne Cooper at mcooper@dungarvin.com or (719) 632-5205, ext. 4247.

Dungarvin Colorado

Address: 805 N Murray Blvd. #201, Colorado Springs, CO 80915

Phone: (719) 632-5205, ext. 4247

E-mail: mcooper@dungarvin.com

Family Resource Network is a nonprofit Child Placement Agency that was established in 1985 by child advocates, and moved to Colorado Springs in 1997. The CPA helps to create nurturing and safe homes for children throughout the community. The agency strives to ensure the best possible support for the children, foster parents, and biological parents served. The agency looks for potential foster and foster/adopt homes that have the patience, love, and a family-focused approach to help the children in care. The goal is family reunification—but, when that is not an option, we look for a home that best suits the needs of the children and the families served. For more information on how you can help children in our community, please call (719) 227-7477, Ext. 13.

Family Resource Network

Address: 5360 N. Academy Ste. # 130, Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Phone: (719) 227-7477

E-mail: shawntel@familyresourcenetworkco.com

Fax: (719) 227-7474

A foster and adoptive family with the Griffith Centers for Children Chins Up can expect initial and on-going training, access to a number of audio and visual continual education units, support meetings, agency hosted holiday events and celebrations, professional support, 24/7 crisis intervention, financial reimbursement, respite care, and wrap-around service options. At the Griffith Centers for Children Chins Up, the continuity of care is important. The CPA’s goal is to place foster and adoptive children with the home that best meets their needs and personalities. The CPA is looking for caring and dedicated people who love spending time enriching the lives of children, giving back to their community, and are ready to be the change they wish to see in the world. If you are ready to begin your foster and/or adoptive journey.

Griffith Centers for Children Chins Up

Address: 17 N. Farragut Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80909

• Phone: 719-220-4066

Lacy Ruffin (Home Supervisor)

• Phone : 719-640-1719
• Email: lacy.ruffin@griffithcenters.org

Hope & Home is one of the largest, most dynamic CPAs in the state of Colorado — with hundreds of children happily adopted. Each year, the agency provides short- and long-term, in-family care to hundreds of children in crisis. At any given time, well over 100 families across the Front Range are either providing care for foster children or are in training to become licensed.

First-hand experience from a Hope & Home Parent: My husband, Rod, and I joined Hope & Home 10 years ago because we wanted to help kids in crisis and provide a permanent home to those who needed one. Six months later, we adopted our preschool foster kids Nathan and Amber. Then we fell in love with a teenager and adopted Tasha when she was 17. Finally, newborn Gracie blessed our lives. Our family was complete, and I am now a full-time soccer mom, chauffeur, cook, bedtime story-reader, homework teacher and boo-boo fixer. Over the five years that we were certified, we also took care of more than a dozen other children. Each one left footprints on our hearts! Saying goodbye was hard, but we got through it with the love and support of “Team Hope & Home.” We are no longer licensed, but we are still an active part of Hope & Home. They promise, and deliver, long-term support for all their families and kids. We love this. We are part of a community of loving, caring parents. My kids love the Summer O’ Fun picnics, campouts, and activities during support groups. When we visit, they check out the Zoondoogle Factory and Woodsum Daniel Store and inevitably end up outside at Ta’s Place, their fun, private park. During visits, I enjoy a cup of coffee at the Jericho Java coffee shop, then head upstairs to the red couch room for foster parents, where there’s a big screen TV and views of the city. Whew! Peace and quiet at last. I drink my latte and enjoy a book as the kids play outside at the park. If I’m feeling ambitious, I’ll work off some energy in the spacious exercise room. There is always something going on at Hope & Home. As foster parents, we are linked together through support groups, activities, newsletters and Facebook. That’s where I recently learned that Hope & Home won El Pomar Foundation’s Outstanding Service Award for the fifth year in a row! That tells you something about the quality of their program. Simply stated, if you’re looking for an agency that loves kids, supports parents and does everything with the highest standards of care, call them and say Toni sent you!

Hope & Home

Address: 4945 N. 30th St., Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Phone: (719) 575-9887

E-mail: info@hopeandhome.org

Fax: (719) 575-0553

Hope’s Promise has one goal and that is to create stable and nurturing families for children in need. We have been a Child Placing Agency (CPA) since 1990, carrying out our mission to transform lives through the Christian ministry of foster care, adoption and orphan care.

We value being part of your support system. Our staff is available to you 24/7 for emotional, physical and spiritual support in person or via phone. A Foster Closet is in our office. It is supplied with clothes for all ages, shoes, diapers, wipes, baby necessities, etc. The foster care team can deliver items ASAP to help you in each transition or you are welcome to come shop for free at your earliest convenience.

We value training opportunities. As a foster parent you gain the opportunity to come alongside children who have experienced trauma. You assist them along their healing journey. Hope’s Promise provides a virtual monthly training to assist you in helping the children in your home heal. Your Hope’s Promise Home Supervisor will guide you in trauma informed, attachment-based parenting specific to the needs of the children in your home. You will love seeing the children in your home blossom.

We value a foster care community. At Hope’s Promise we have a virtual monthly support group, and we offer quarterly in-person events. This allows our foster care families to get to know, build friendships, and support one another in this shared experience. Many of us at Hope’s Promise have also lived this shared experience too. Contact us and learn more!

Hope’s Promise

Krystle Miller, LCSW (Hope’s Promise Foster Care Placement Supervisor)

Email: Krystle@hopespromise.com

Phone: 720-233-1733

Greek noun pronounced ki-ross – “An opportune moment for decision or action”

As one of the newest child placement agencies to be licensed in the state of Colorado, Kairos is pleased to provide training and certification to both treatment and traditional foster families. In addition to child placement services, Kairos is authorized to provide mental health services and offense-specific treatment when needed.

Kairos Family Services was born out of the personal experience of Executive Director Marilyn Puryear, LCSW, after years of working in and with the child welfare system – as a foster parent, adoptive parent, educator, CASA, social worker and mental health clinician. Marilyn and her husband Bill have adopted four of their six children from the foster care system – providing a unique perspective to working with foster families.

Recognizing the challenges of the system that serves families and children, and acknowledging the hope and resilience of those same children and families, Kairos desires to “bridge the gap” by providing services that view all clients through the lens of trauma – requiring attention to the distinct needs of children and youth to feel safe, to connect, and cope adequately (with inner stress and external challenges).

Kairos works alongside caseworkers, providers, and the children, youth, and families that we serve to become an inclusive and trauma-focused agency, providing a continuum of services that range from parenting and transition/mentoring services, to clearly defined placement and post-placement services.

Kairos, along with partnering agencies and organizations, leans heavily on the teachings and strategies of hope proposed by Dr. Karyn Purvis; Bryan Post, LCSW; Dr. Bruce Perry; Dr. Daniel Siegal; and Heather Forbes, LCSW.

Kairos Family Services

Address: PO Box 62723, Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Email: mpuryear@kairosfamilyservices.com

Phone: (719) 238-7908

Fax: (719) 960-3210

Kids Crossing was founded by foster parents for foster parents! Kids Crossing, founded in 1992, is a private non-profit Child Placement Agency that licenses and supervises foster and foster/adopt families for children. At Kids Crossing, foster parents are appreciated for their diversity. Some of our foster parents provide short-term respite care, others have served hundreds of foster children, and other families want to grow through adoption. Some of our foster parents may be single parents, active military, working professionals, urban families or ranchers on the eastern plains. Some foster parents take teens, others only infants, and some prefer working with medically fragile children. Most importantly, all of the CPA’s foster parents are valued as integral members of a multi-disciplinary team. To find out more, please contact Sarah Bailey at (719) 667-7046 or email her at sbailey@kidscrossing.com.

Kids Crossing

Address: 1440 East Fountain Blvd.,Colorado Springs, CO 80910

Phone: (719) 667-7046

E-mail: tgonzales@kidscrossing.com or sbailey@kidscrossing.com (licensing/recruitment)

Fax: (719) 632-6573

Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains is a faith-based human services agency providing domestic and refugee foster care and adoption services since 1948. LFS believes there is no such thing as “other people’s kids.” Through its Foster Care Program, the CPA works diligently with families to support them through the foster process and beyond. LFS provides skilled, caring substitute families for children unable to live with their birth families. The agency recruits, licenses, and oversees foster parents willing to provide a nurturing environment in their homes for children, teens or sibling groups.

Interested in learning more?

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a foster parent or how you can personally help kids and young adults in the child welfare system? At Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains, we believe that YOU CAN be a foster parent. Learn more about our foster care program and how you can be the difference in the life of a child or youth.

Our Foster Care Providers gain knowledge and understanding by completing the National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC), a state-of-the-art training program designed to provide prospective foster and adoptive parents with the competencies, skills, and support they need to effectively parent children and youth who have experienced separation, loss, and grief. Great training can be paramount in successful fostering.

Schedule an Information Meeting with our Licensing Team who will guide and support you every step of the way. Our Licensing Specialists will explain the process to become a Foster Parent and answer all of your questions.

Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains

Licensing Team email: fcsouthlicensing@LFSRM.org

Licensing Specialists: Beth Schlauch – Beth.Schlauch@LFSRM.org and Beth Santiago – Beth.Santiago@LFSRM.org

Main office number: (719)227-7571

LFSRM Address: 108 East Saint Vrain Street, Suite 14, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Maple Star provides an opportunity to make a difference in the life of a child within a loving family. A non-profit child placement agency, Maple Star has a presence throughout the front range including Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Castle Rock, Denver, Loveland and surrounding areas. Part of a nationwide organization called Pathways, Maple Star has been serving in foster care since 1994.

What can foster parents expect from Maple Star during their foster experience? First and foremost, Maple Star focuses on providing a trauma-sensitive, healing environment for the children in their care. Additionally, Maple Star offers professional training before and during fostering; an opportunity to meet and share with other foster parents through a support network; guidance and help from a qualified home supervisor; and, a 24-hour crisis line staffed by the Maple Star foster care team.

Maple Star is open to families of all religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations/identities. Confidential information is shared to foster parents about the children/youth before being accepted into the foster home. A fair rate of financial reimbursement is provided. Foster/adoptive placements are available and foster parents can expect to be treated with the same respect due any Maple Star staff person and appreciated as an integral part of the treatment team. In addition, volunteer opportunities include mentoring, community support, and event planning. For more information, please contact John Rosati, a former foster parent and adoptive father of four children from the foster care system. John can be reached at (719) 286-0014 or john.rosati@pathways.com.

Maple Star

Address: 1465 N. Union Blvd. #102, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80909

Contacts:

General Email Address: Maplestar_Foster_Recruitment@pathways.com or (719) 694-8037

Foster Care Director: Lisa Siminitus, lisa.siminitus@pathways.com or (719) 231-7401

Fax: 719.445.0841

A New World CPA is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization established to promote and support children in need of foster care placement. A New World accepts children ages 0-18. The CPA strives to encourage a positive outlook on life and deeper appreciation for oneself, through pairing children with foster homes that will promote their growth and development while in out-of-home care. The opportunity to provide children with a nurturing and stable environment during one of the most challenging times in their life is not to be taken lightly. At A New World foster or foster/adopt parents receive training, knowledge and support including a comprehensive pre-placement orientation and training program, a case manager to support and guide you through the process, 24-hour on-call support, monthly support meetings, and ongoing training opportunities. If you are interested in becoming a foster or foster/adopt parent, please contact Lindsey Armstrong at 720-667-6378 or at the email below.

A New World Child Placement Agency

Address: 10800 E Bethany Dr, suite 225, Aurora, CO 80014

Referral Phone: (719) 985-1642

Referral Email: referrals@anewworldcpa.org

General Inquiries: lindsey@anewworldcpa.org

General Phone: (720) 667-6378

The mission of Rocky Mountain Kids, Inc., is to help boys and girls, ages 10-18 and who have been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect. Our vision is to provide a safe, therapeutic environment to work on healing the effects of abuse and neglect, and to help these kids turn their lives around. Rocky Mountain Kids, Inc. consists of four licensed group homes: Drew’s Place Jeremiah 29, Brad’s House, Nevada House and Future Bound. With over 20 years of service to teens in Colorado Springs, The teens in our programs are supported by a caring staff in a safe environment where they can heal from the abuse and neglect in their past. Additionally, these individuals are provided with the knowledge and life skills training necessary to succeed in life, whether their goal is to return home, or to emancipate and live independently. Typically, the length of stay for a teen in our Program varies from 6 months to 2 years. For more information, please call Felice Liquori at the number below.

Rocky Mountain Kids

Address: 2210 East LaSalle St, #219, Colorado Springs, CO 80909

Phone: (719) 330-7244

E-mail: rockymountainkids@live.com

Fax: (719) 635-3601

Special Kids Special Families (SKSF) has been providing services to the Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak community since 1998. The SKSF Child Placement Agency is one of the leading foster care agencies in the region with unique skills and experience supporting the care and placement of foster children with special needs, including mental, emotional, behavioral and physical disabilities. While SKSF Child Placement Agency places children of all ethnicities, ages and situations, especially siblings, it is uniquely positioned as the “go-to” agency supporting foster children with disabilities due to its integration and access to the full range of SKSF programs and services (Zach’s Place respite/childcare program, Adult Day Programs, Residential Services/Foster Care for adults).

Foster families under the supervision of SKSF experience an exceptional amount of collaboration and involvement from staff members to ensure the highest level of care possible, 24 hours a day. SKSF will provide a full spectrum of support from initial introduction through specialized training, certification to placement and continual regular involvement with the foster family and child to ensure successful placements and positive outcomes. The CPA assigns a Home Supervisor to help navigate the journey of foster parenting with consistent encouragement along the way. The agency also provides short-term respite and foster-to-adopt services. Please call, email or visit its website with any questions or for additional information.

Special Kids Special Families

Address: 424 W Pikes Peak Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80905

Phone: (719) 447-8983

E-mail: sksf@sksfcolorado.org

Fax: (719) 447-9482

SAFY is a national nonprofit in seven different states, that has been specializing in providing child placement and community-based behavioral health services for 35 years. SAFY works with children and families to reach their full potential increasing the well-being of our communities. Established in 2014, SAFY of Colorado offers hope and healing through their Model of Care. SAFY serves a culturally diverse population delivering the right care at the right time to strengthen families and children. Recognized as a leader in the management and provision of the highest quality community-based services, our clinical expertise produces positive, sustainable change in the lives of families and their children.

SAFY of Colorado

Address: SAFY of El Paso County, PO Box 783, Colorado Springs, CO 80901

Phone: (970) 494-5891

Fax: (970) 494-5895