Universal PreK Resources

Healthy Development & Child Screenings

Family Resource Centers

Family Resource Centers (FRCs) serve as a single point of entry for providing comprehensive, intensive, and integrated state and community-based services to vulnerable families, individuals, children, and youth. FRCs connect families to many types of resources, such as clothing, food, emergency financial assistance, child care, and benefit enrollment. FRCs offer services consisting of family development and family support, home visitation, and parent education guided by the following principles:

  • All families have strengths.
  • Colorado needs healthy and cohesive families.
  • Families are best served by a local family resource center that prioritizes their community’s needs.
  • Family resource centers work in collaboration with public and private entities.
  • Family resource centers provide safe and engaging environments.

View the Family Resource Center Landscape Scan By County for a list of all organizations offering family resource center services.

Early Childhood Councils

The Department of Early Childhood also partners with Early Childhood Councils statewide to participate in the work to unify the early childhood system and systems building efforts. Connect with your Early Childhood Council.

Raising Colorado Kids

The Colorado Department of Early Childhood has launched www.RaisingColoradoKids.com, a user-friendly platform that simplifies access to early childhood services and family resources. This platform consolidates information from 5,500 web pages from 15 different sites into one accessible, easy-to-navigate resource for early childhood services in both English and Spanish.

Families can now use this single, powerful hub to anonymously discover over 20 services they may qualify for, check application statuses for programs like CCCAP and Colorado Universal Preschool, and seamlessly connect with additional resource finders like Colorado Shines and 2-1-1 Colorado.

Illuminate Colorado

Illuminate Colorado offers targeted services to empower parents and caregivers with the tools and resources they need to create safe, nurturing environments for their children. Learn more about Illuminate’s programs and initiatives.