Registration is now open, and early bird registration rates are available through June 26.   Click here to learn more.

The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach, and discounted rooms are available for $159 per night plus tax. Make your reservations early because the discounted rate applies only until the NACAC room block fills or July 7, whichever is earlier.  Click here to make reservations.

From the Colorado Center on Law and Policy

The bill was sponsored by Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, in the Senate and by Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood, in the House.

Now that SB 12 has been signed, TANF recipients will begin receiving child-support payments starting January 2017.  A small fiscal note was attached to the bill so that IT professionals can modify computer systems to allow child-support payments to pass-through to TANF recipients.

Click here to read the brief.

From the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)

In the new AdoptUSKids publication, Support Matters: Lessons from the Field on Services for Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care Families, state and tribal child welfare managers and administrators and staff of family support organizations will find:

• Information about how promising support services can help with both recruitment and support of adoptive, foster, and kinship care families, including information on 17 evidence-based or evidence-informed therapeutic services and techniques that have been used in conjunction with support services to help create healthier families
• Data about the value of support services for children, families, and administrators
• Tools and guidance administrators can use to assess the needs of adoptive, foster, and kinship care families in their communities
• Information gathered from research and from leaders in the field about implementing support services, including forming public/private partnerships, accessing funding, assessing a program's ability to engage families, and evaluating how services make a difference in the lives of children, youth, and families

Camp Fundango is a family weekend for adoptive, foster, and kinship families, taking place on August 28 - 30, 2015, at Camp Timberline in Estes Park.  Cost is $30 a camper for the weekend.  Space is limited to the first 80 campers.

Camp activities will include zip lines, climbing wall, low and high ropes course, giant swings, basketball, soccer, disc golf, football, hiking, and fishing.

For more information, click here or contact Erica Wharton at 970-223-1230 or by email at [email protected].  

From the Catholic Charities Kinship Chronicles

The Arapahoe County Library District, JeffCo Public Library, and Douglas County Library District now offer FREE Exploration Passes good for admission to the Dinosaur Ridge, the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, the Denver Firefighters Museum, and the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys. Passes are available in limited quantities each day and allow different numbers of people to enter the attraction at no cost. Note that you must have a current ACL, JCPL, or DCL library card  (you'll need the number handy to get your pass) but any Colorado resident can get a card as long as you present some sort of photo ID at any one of their library locations. Be sure to read the "Pass Information" for each attraction. Some passes admit four people, others only two.

From the disabilityscoop

The Brunswick, Maine, police department has developed an innovative approach to dealing with those people with special needs or mental health issues.  To read more about this forward-thinking approach, click here.  

Saturday, September 26, 2015

The EXDO Event Center

Supporting Clothes To Kids of Denver and their mission to provide free school clothing to students in need. Click here for more information.

Second Tuesday of the Month

Morning session 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Evening session 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Session includes a short presentation followed by a discussion.  

Email Deb Felio at

[email protected]  

for the toll-free number and access code.

1st Tuesday of the month   

February 3 - May 5, 2015

5:30pm-7:00pm

Supervised activities and group therapy for children

Lakewood Nazarene Church

Lakewood, CO