Resources for Foster and Kinship Families.
The Haven Impact is committed to providing unwavering support for foster and kinship families to thrive. Beyond our direct services, we connect families to trusted resources and valued partners that help them feel seen, supported, and equipped for the journey ahead. We also encourage families to explore events created specifically for foster, kinship, and adoptive families, offering spaces for connection, refreshment, and support along the way.
Books
This curated book list includes resources specially selected for foster, kinship, and adoptive parents and children. These books offer encouragement, practical tools, and trauma-informed insight to help caregivers better understand children from hard places, strengthen connection, support attachment, and navigate the unique joys and challenges of foster, kinship, and adoptive parenting.
Foster Friendly App
The Foster Friendly App, hosted by Colorado Kids Belong, is a free resource that helps foster and kinship families find discounts, support, events, and foster-friendly businesses in their community. Families can use the app to connect with local resources and practical support designed specifically for those caring for children in foster or kinship care.
2-1-1 Colorado
211 Colorado is a free, confidential resource that connects people to local support and essential services in their community. By dialing 2-1-1 or searching online, families can find help with needs such as shelter availability, childcare, rent payment assistance, food, utilities, healthcare, transportation, and more. With a regularly updated database, 211 Colorado helps make it easier to know where to turn when support is needed.
ALL IN Empowering Futures
ALL IN empowers foster care alumni to improve their life outcomes on an actionable path to success. Their strategy is to create a network for foster alumni through healing-centered retreats where alumni connect, build trust, and grow. Through these retreats, foster alumni are empowered to: Strengthening Community, Accessing Opportunities, and Amplifying Alumni Voices.
Be the Source
Be the Source supports foster and kinship families in Colorado through trauma-informed training, advocacy, therapeutic services, respite support, relief services, and connection opportunities. Their programs include caregiver education, sponsored therapy, equine-assisted parenting labs, personalized respite matching, legal education, and peer-to-peer mentorship through The Ambassador Project. Their work is designed to help children in out-of-home care experience healing and stability by surrounding caregivers with practical resources, community, and support.
Bold Steps
Bold Steps is a faith-based nonprofit working to become Colorado's first residential ranch community for parenting teen foster youth. Through their trauma-informed peer support specialist program, they walk alongside teenage mothers in foster care and their babies, providing resources, encouragement, and community as they build toward their housing model. Rooted in the belief that God redeems every story, Bold Steps exists for the girls who have nowhere else to go.
Clear View Counseling
Clear View Counseling provides evidence-based, trauma-informed therapy for children, teens, adults, and families to promote healing, clarity, and resilience, including specialized approaches like Brainspotting and EMDR. Our Denver-area therapists support clients navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, burnout, and major life transitions with personalized therapy tailored to each individual’s needs.
Clothes to Kids of Denver
Clothes to Kids provides new and quality clothing in a boutique setting to students and families in need. Kids get to shop for themselves, free of charge. Kids must be ages 3-21 and enrolled in preschool-12th grade or working toward a GED. They must live in the Denver metro area and be considered in need of assistance. Kids are able to select a 22 piece wardrobe every time they shop.
Cobbled Streets
Cobbled Streets supports children in foster and kinship care by helping them access positive childhood experiences, meaningful relationships, and enriching opportunities. Through individualized support, they help children participate in activities such as tutoring, music lessons, sports, equine therapy, outdoor adventures, cultural experiences, and other opportunities that encourage joy, confidence, connection, and belonging.
Colorado Kids Belong
Colorado Kids Belong helps families and individuals navigate foster care and adoption from foster care through their Fostering Front Door Program. This online resource offers simple explanations, helpful next steps, and support for potential and licensed foster parents, adoptive families, and those who want to get involved in other ways. Families can also access resources such as the Foster Friendly Podcast, FosterCon webinars, the Belong Blog, and a resource library for ongoing education and encouragement.
Colorado State Foster Parent Association
CSFPA supports foster, kinship, adoptive, and reunified families through training, crisis navigation assistance, legislative advocacy, and building programs that strengthen family stability and improve outcomes for children and youth in care. By partnering with counties, agencies, and community organizations, CSFPA works to ensure caregivers have the resources, voice, and connection they need to provide safe, nurturing homes.
ConnectionPlus
ConnectionPlus provides virtual 1:1 parent coaching for foster, kinship, adoptive, and other caregivers parenting children from hard places. Through weekly video sessions, caregivers receive trauma-responsive support and practical tools focused on connection, regulation, attachment, felt safety, routines, and strengthening the parent-child relationship. Sliding scale options and scholarship funding may be available to help make services more accessible.
Creating a Family
Creating a Family is the national nonprofit that strengthens foster, kinship, and adoptive families through expert-based, trauma-informed education, training, and support. For nearly 20 years, they have provided trusted resources, including two weekly podcasts, weekly articles, online courses, community support, and training, to help families and the professionals who serve them build stronger, more connected relationships.
Families Rising
Families Rising offers free services for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents, including 1:1 help navigating Adoption Assistance and the Adoption Tax Credit, a library of webinars and articles on navigating behavior challenges at home, connection to a network of peer-to-peer support groups, and an annual conference for caregivers to refresh and recharge with others who get it.
FindHelp
FindHelp is a free, confidential, and user-friendly online platform that connects people with local community services. By entering a zip code, users can find free or reduced-cost assistance for food, housing, healthcare, transportation, and other essential social services.
Foster Fête
Foster Fête makes birthdays bright for children in foster care. They partner with various agencies to provide custom birthday celebrations that include a cake, card, balloons, and presents.
Fostering Healthy Futures
Fostering Healthy Futures is a positive youth development program that uses mentoring and skills training to support youth with current or previous involvement in the child welfare system. Through programs designed for preteens and teens, young people build on their strengths, develop practical social-emotional skills, set goals, and form supportive relationships with trained mentors.
Groundwork Ranch
Groundwork Ranch offers free, four-hour Leader of the Herd workshops in partnership with Be the Source. Because horses are prey animals, they rely on heightened awareness and trust for survival, making them a meaningful way for caregivers to practice parenting skills that help children who have experienced trauma feel safe and supported. Led by licensed mental health professionals, the workshops include information about The Survival Perspective and hands-on opportunities to strengthen skills that can have an immediate positive impact at home.
Harbor Church
Harbor Church is a foster friendly church in Westminster, CO that empowers and cares for foster and adoptive children and those on the front lines of caring for these kids every day by serving, supporting, and connecting.
Harbor Early Learning Center
Harbor ELC is committed to serving families by providing loving and enriching childcare for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. They offer scholarships for foster and adoptive families.
Lasagna Love
Lasagna Love is a grassroots nonprofit that connects neighbors in need to volunteers through homemade lasagna delivery. They match volunteer cooks with families who could use a little support, comfort, and kindness. There are no income requirements to receive a meal because they believe everyone deserves care and compassion during difficult seasons.
NFPA Training Institute
The National Foster Parent Association Training Institute (NFPATI) is a partnership between the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) and Centene Corporation, providing free, 24/7 online training for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers nationwide. It offers on-demand courses addressing trauma-informed care and common caregiver challenges.
Parent to Parent of Colorado
Parent to Parent of Colorado provides emotional and informational supports to parents/caregivers of individuals with disabilities and/or special healthcare needs through 1:1 support parent matching, a private online message board, virtual support groups, and more. All of our services are free, and we aim to ensure that no parent feels alone in their journey.
Preston Ranch Ministries
Preston Ranch Ministries offers Christ-centered support, strengthening families committed to adoption through post-adoptive Medical, Mental Health and Crisis Intervention grants. They seek to champion these families in their dedication to adoption, and their healing and restoration in Christ.
Project 1.27
Project 1.27 supports foster, kinship, and adoptive families through training, resources, and ongoing encouragement. Families can connect with community resources, support groups, monthly meals, parent mentor opportunities, continuing education, and events designed to help caregivers feel equipped and supported. They also offer Colorado state-certified training and case manager support for families navigating foster care and adoption.
Raise the Future
Raise the Future provides free support to families and professionals who work with children who have experienced challenging circumstances through Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) trainings and in-home coaching.
Renewed Balance Therapy
Renewed Balance Therapy is a private mental health practice serving individuals, couples, and families across Northern Colorado and the Denver Metro area. With lived and professional experience in transracial adoption, they offer a unique perspective in supporting adoptive families and adoptees in building connection and exploring a healing adoption narrative. They also provide specialized education through consultation, trainings, and parent coaching in trauma, dissociation, attachment, and adoption.
RISE Foster and Adoption Support
RISE supports foster and adoptive families through practical and relational care designed to help families feel encouraged and less alone. Their support may include meals, laundry, encouragement, family resources, and connection to volunteers and community partners who walk alongside families. RISE exists to strengthen families so every child can rise to their full potential.
Save Our Youth
For over 30 years, Save Our Youth has provided one-to-one mentorship for young people ages 10–17 in the Denver Metro Area. Through these relationships, youth build spiritual, emotional, and economic hope, learning to overcome challenges and pursue their dreams with confidence.
Styles 4 Kidz
Styles 4 Kidz empowers transracial adoptive, foster, and biracial families with the education, support, and resources they need to confidently care for Black hair and embrace Black culture. Their vision is a world where every child with textured hair feels seen, valued, confident, and connected to their identity. Through hands-on classes, virtual training, community events, and partnerships with child welfare organizations, they help caregivers support healthy hair, strong self-esteem, cultural connection, and family bonds.
The Light House Denver
The Light House is a Denver-based organization dedicated to easing the trauma of foster care by supporting children and families. They offer emotional-regulation classes, a support group for parents, and life-skills and mentorship programs for teens ages 16–21. Through workshops, community support, and hands-on care, they help foster youth feel prepared, understood, and equipped for success.
The Mayfly Project
The Mayfly Project is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to mentoring youth in foster care through fly fishing. Their mission is to support youth in foster care through fly fishing, helping them build confidence, find healing, and connect to their local waters. Through a series of mentor-led outings, children learn fly fishing and fly tying skills, participate in conservation activities, and develop essential life skills.
The Perch Counseling Services
The Perch Counseling Services provides trauma-informed and attachment-focused mental health counseling services to kids 4+, teens, and adults, as well as parent coaching support. Located in Westminster, CO, they specialize in play therapy, transracial adoption, and multicultural and AAPI racial identity.
WeeCycle
WeeCycle supports families with infants and toddlers needing essential baby gear and diapers through their 150+ partner organizations. For a full list of partner organizations and direct distributions of diapers, wipes, and formula through their Mobile Baby Essentials Market, visit their website.
