America's Promise
A network dedicated to creating opportunity and fulfilling promises to America's youth.

Bal Swan Children's Center
A preschool that provides a welcoming environment for disabled children, as well as typical children from Metro Denver's northern suburbs and other Front Range communities. Building on each child's strengths and successes, the Center provides early intervention therapies and education services for children with disabilities from infancy to 5 years old.

The Byrne Foundation
Strives to help youth who have financial, academic, or personal barriers to achieve success in life.

Catholic Charities Child Services
Promotes family and child development through partnerships between staff, families, children, and the community.

The Children's Hospital Foundation
Dedicated to improving the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research, and advocacy.

Colorado Safe Place for Newborns
The mission of Safe Place for Newborns is to save the lives of newborn children. Safe Place for Newborns exists to prevent the abandonment of newborn children, thus helping to preserve the health and future of their mothers.
24 Hour Crisis Line 1-866-694-BABY

Denver Area Youth Services
Provides a continuum of human services for children, youth, and their families.

AfterSchool Now

National Youth Development Information Center
A one-stop website for youth workers with interest in any and all of the following areas: funding, programming, research, policy, job and training opportunities.

Outward Bound
An educational organization with five core programs that change lives, build teams, and transform schools. We deliver adventure in the wilderness, urban settings, workrooms, and classrooms to help students achieve their possibilities, and to inspire them to serve others and care for the world around them.

Programs of Religious Activity With Youth
P.R.A.Y.'s mission is to encourage the spiritual growth of young people.

YMCA
Through the core values of the YMCA, the organization develops strong families and communities through community based activities and programming.

9NEWS Volunteering Resources

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Adoption Alliance
Finds safe, loving, permanent homes for children from the U.S. and around the world.

Adoption Colorado

Adopting.org

The Adoption Exchange
A child welfare organization founded in 1983 to work for safety and permanence in the lives of foster children.

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Alternative Homes for Youth
Provides at-risk youth with structure, tools for success, and a support system for positive growth.

Beacon Center
Providing residential center and community services for at-risk youth. Referred by community service and courts, these youth are often victims of abuse. Treatment and education is offered with encouragement, accountability, and acceptemnce to help adolesents turn their lives around.

Boys Hope Girls Hope
Boys Hope Girls Hope helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college.

Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation
Encourages the 100 percent high school graduation of a specific group of potentially at-risk students, by providing them with academic assistance, life skills development, positive role models, and other forms of support throughout grades 3-12, culminating in an academic or vocational scholarship upon successfully completing all high school requirements.

Colorado UpLIFT
Empowering urban youth to lead successful lives emphasizing character, education, and attitude.

Denver Area Youth Services
Offering a continuum of services for at-risk children and their families--including day treatment programs, alternatives to detention for juvenile offenders, employment training, health care, and treatment for substance abuse.

Denver Kids, Inc.
Helping students in Denver Public Schools who face the personal challenges of high-risk environments to successfully graduate from high school and become useful, productive citizens.

Denver Scores
The mission of Denver Scores is to strengthen Denver's urban public school communities through soccer, literacy and community service.

Denver Street School
The Denver Street School believes that a quality education is the most effective approach to transforming many underprivileged members of our society into productive citizens, and serves the population of students in Metro Denver that have struggled with, dropped-out or been expelled from the public school system, helping them toward self-sufficiency through education.

Here's Life Inner City
Enhances the experience of children, teenagers, and young adults through involvement with urban churches. Here's Life offers after-school programs and summer leadership development for inner-city youth.


Goodwill Industries- Youth Services
Motivating at-risk and disadvantaged young people to graduate from high school and prepare for success in the workplace. Each year they support more than 10,000 students in 22 area schools.

Hope House of Colorado
A non-denominational Christian organization serving teen mothers in the metro area. Hope House offers teen mothers and their children a safe and stable home for up to two years while each mom participates in a structured self-sufficiency program. Their Outreach Program helps teen moms who don’t need housing, but struggle to make ends meet, working to connect them to the services in our community that will help them. 

The Link
Providing a collaborative, multi-agency, single entry process for youth who are involved in, or at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.

Metro Denver Partners
Promoting a safe and growth-oriented environment in which at-risk youth can develop and flourish through friendship and commitment, mentoring and role modeling, education and guidance and family support.

Metro Denver Sports Commission
Provides sports opportunities for at-risk youth in the Denver area.

Mile High Youth Corps
Helps youth develop the skills they need to succeed in the classroom, the workforce and everyday life. MHYC crews complete a variety of projects that improve neighborhoods, protect the environment and help the disadvantaged.

Mount St. Vincent Home
Assists children with a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems, and their families, through a variety of programs and services.

Save Our Youth, Inc.
The mission of Save Our Youth is to make timely intervention in the live of at-risk children through mentor relationships, which provide the skills for success in education, emotional, and spiritual development.

StandUp for Kids
Help homeless and street kids to stabilize and improve their lives.

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Denver County Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP)
The Denver County Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) is a federally-funded program that helps eligible low-income families pay for childcare.

Mile High Montessori
The Mission of Mile High Montessori is to ensure that the infants, toddlers and preschoolers enter school ready to succeed by providing affordable, accessible, quality early childhood care and education in order to assist families in Metropolitan Denver in self-sufficiency. This program works with low-income families to provide subsidized child care and learning.

Qualistar Early Learning
Offering a thorough accountability and referral system for child care facilities throughout Colorado. They offer a 4-star rating system and a continuous improvement program that measures quality and supplies hundreds of providers with tools and strategies for success.

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Junior Achievement
Through partnerships with business and educators, Junior Achievement helps young people understand the economics of life.

Young Americans Educational Foundation
Helps to further the economic education of young people.