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Kids in Care Settings (KICS)
Kempe’s Kids In Care Settings (KICS) Clinic, is a Children’s Hospital Colorado specialty primary care clinic in affiliation with the Kempe Center.
Trauma-Responsive Implementation and Practice
The Trauma-Responsive Implementation and Practice (TRIP) program integrates, enhances and implements trauma-responsive and culturally appropriate practices for parents, educators and professionals across the human service fields.
Fostering Healthy Futures®
The Fostering Healthy Futures® (FHF) program is a positive youth development program that uses mentoring and skills training to empower youth to foster their own healthy futures.
CARE Network
The Child Abuse Response and Evaluation (CARE) Network engages health care and behavioral health providers across Colorado with the best education and training on conducting medical exams and behavioral health assessments to identify signs and risks of child maltreatment or trauma.
Child Protection Team
Attending to children brought into the Children’s Hospital Colorado, the Child Protection Team’s mission is to offer comprehensive, multidisciplinary consultation, assessment, treatment and referral services for children and adolescents who may have been physically or sexually abused or neglected.
Child Welfare Training System
The Kempe Center partners with the Colorado Department of Human Services to develop and implement the Child Welfare Training System (CWTS) – an advanced adult learning system for child welfare workers, other professionals, foster parents and mandatory reporters. To read more and sign-up for email updates, click here.
Trauma-Sensitive Assessment & Treatment Services for Kids
Together in Truth
The Together in Truth initiative is catalyzing truth telling for impacted persons, professionals, organizations, and collective communities in the pursuit of justice.
SafeCare
The Kempe Center partners with the Colorado Department of Human Services to oversee SafeCare Colorado - an evidence-based prevention program that helps families gain skills to provide a safe home, address child health needs, and engage in positive interactions with their children ages 0 to 5-years-old.
At the Kempe Foundation, we believe children and families are resilient. When parents are provided with the resources they need to care for themselves and their families, children will live safer and healthier lives.
Oftentimes, families are unaware or unable to access the resources that would help them succeed. To solve this problem, the Kempe Foundation works alongside human services agencies, nonprofit organizations and other community partners to strengthen the systems that support children and families.
Summer 2024 - Advocacy Efforts
The Kempe Foundation is committed to working with champions and partners at the state Capitol to prevent child abuse and neglect, increase access to evidence-based prevention services, and ensure state or voluntary intervention services serve families successfully. The legislative session concluded on May 8, 2024. Dozens of significant bills gained the necessary approval in the final days. The following are the approved bills that Kempe supported and worked on.Â
Summer 2023 - Advocacy Efforts
In July, Warren Binford, Steve Berkowitz, Kathi Wells, and Jon Kruljac were in Washington, D.C., to discuss national advocacy issues supporting children and families and to survey the landscape on how Kempe could be a resource for various stakeholders. They met with staff and members of the Colorado delegation including Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen, other policymakers, and thought leaders identifying priorities for improvement in child wellbeing.
Policy Expertise
Child abuse and neglect / prevention / training
Child and family mental and behavioral health
Child maltreatment / prevention / training
Child sex assault care / training / prevention
Child welfare / prevention / training
Child and Family Rights
Child Law, Policy, and Ethics
Child-Friendly Cities and Communities
Child Safety Online
Family strengthening / training
Foster care / Foster parent training
Human Services workforce recruitment and retention
Youth and family mental health intervention programs
Youth criminal justice reform
2023
Behavioral Health
HB23-1003 School Mental Health Assessment
HB23-1269 Extended Stay And Boarding Patients
Child Welfare
HB23-1024 Relative And Kin Placement Of A Child
HB23-1043 Emergency And Continued Placement With Relative Or Kin
HB23-1142 Information Of Person Reporting Child Abuse
SB23-082 Colorado Fostering Success Voucher Program
SB23-211 Federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
Other/System Change
HB23-1108 Victim And Survivor Training For Judicial Personnel
SB23-002 Medicaid Reimbursement For Community Health Services
2022
Behavioral Health
HB22-1214 Behavioral Health Crisis Response System
HB22-1278 Behavioral Health Administration
HB22-1369 Children’s Mental Health Programs
SB22-147 Behavioral Health-care Services For Children
Early Childhood
HB22-1295 Department Early Childhood And Universal Preschool Program
SB22-213 Child Care Support Programs
Child Welfare
HB22-1240 Mandatory Reporters
HB22-1289 Health Benefits For Colorado Children And Pregnant Persons
SB22-008 Higher Education Support For Foster Youth
SB22-037 Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program
SB22-213 Child Care Support Programs
2021
Behavioral Health
HB21-1258 Rapid Mental Health Response For Colorado Youth
SB21-154 Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network
HB21-1097 Establish Behavioral Health Administration
SB21-137 Behavioral Health Recovery Act
HB21-1317 Regulating Marijuana Concentrates
Early Childhood
HB21-1304 Early Childhood System
Child Welfare
HB21-1248 Colorado Children’s Trust Fund Act
HB21-1272 Supporting The Child Protection Ombudsman
HB21-1099 Policies And Procedures To Identify Domestic Abuse
