Colorado Coalition of Adoptive Families

Child & Family Advocacy Organizations

The Colorado Association of Family and Children’s Agencies (CAFCA) is a broad-based group of nonprofit child welfare organizations uniting together to advocate for the best care and practices possible for Colorado’s at-risk children, youth and families. Formed in 1982, CAFCA works with state and local government, the governor’s office, administrative bodies and the Legislature on public policy issues impacting children and families. The Association also conducts training, education and research to promote standards and best practices in child welfare.

Position Paper on Delivery of Mental Health Services to Abused and Neglected Children in the Custody of County Departments of Human Services: This is an excellent summary of the distribution of children’s mental health services between the Department of Health Care Financing Administration (HCPF – the federal program is now known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- CMS), and the county Departments of Human Services.
Please also visit their site for:

• Current Legislative Information **
• White Paper on Foster Care in Colorado (November 2002)

The Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes justice and economic security for lower income Coloradans through legislative, administrative and legal advocacy.

The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute (CoFPI), an educational project of CCLP, engages in the objective analysis of state fiscal issues and their impact. Position papers include:

• Tobacco Securitization: Does it Make Sense for Colorado? (November 2003)
• Balancing Colorado’s FY 2004-05 Budget and Beyond (November 2003)
• The Transparency of Colorado’s Budget Process: Is It Open, understandable and Accessible to Coloradans? (October 2003)
• Colorado’s Budget: Challenge, Crisis, Or Train Wreck (September 2003)
• Colorado’s Budget Choices – What Values do They Reflect? (June 2003)

The Bell Policy Center is conducting an in-depth multi-year study of the fiscal impacts of the Tax Payer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR). Their initial reports include:

• Understanding TABOR: The First Steps (February 2002)
• Ten Years of TABOR: A Study of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights

The Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center strives to deliver high quality legal services for at-risk and maltreated children, promote their healing and healthy development, and ensure that each foster child finds a permanent, loving home - whether this is with their biological family or a new family - as soon as possible.

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