Colorado post-adoption support

Below are post-adoption support services available to families who live in Colorado. Services may not be available in all areas and/or may be dependent upon the circumstances of the placement. Please check with your post-adoption services provider about the availability of specific post-adoption or guardianship support services for your family. You can also visit Child Welfare Information Gateway for information on Adoption and Guardianship Assistance, as well as additional information on post-adoption support.

Post-adoption/guardianship support services

In Colorado, adoptive families have access to the following services through a post-adoption support program:

Child and youth assessments
Information (websites, fact sheets, articles, etc.)
Referral to services
Training/other development
Peer support for parents
Peer support for children/teens
Educational support
Respite care
Community-based therapeutic services

The following services may be available as part of an adoption/guardianship subsidy agreement based on the needs of the individual child:

Financial/material support
In-home therapeutic services
Residential therapeutic services

Who is eligible for these services?

Families who have adopted from the state’s foster care system
Families who have adopted from another state’s foster care system
Families who have adopted internationally or privately
Families who have guardianship of a child from foster care

Colorado Post Permanency Services and Supports are available to any family who has achieved permanency, including birth family and kinship caregivers.

Who provides these services?

The Colorado Department of Human Services contracts with Raise the Future to offer post-permanency services across the state. The foundation of the state’s post-permanency support services is Trust-Based Relational Intervention™ (TBRI). For more detailed information about the post-adoption and guardianship support available to families, visit the Colorado Family Support website.

Parent support groups

Below are support groups for adoptive, kinship, and foster families. Support groups may be offered as part of a state’s post-adoption/guardianship support program, through a statewide or regional foster or adoptive parent association, through specific agencies, or may be run independently. If we have additional information about the group’s purpose or the community served, it’s provided under the group’s contact information.

To add a group or make a suggestion, email the AdoptUSKids family support team.