Joe Amon, The Denver Post
Sarah Janeczko, 20, looks out at cars parked along Federal Boulevard in Denver during Cinco de Mayo on May 5, 2017. She entered the foster care system at the age of 12 after her mother killed herself, and lived in six foster homes before leaving the system when she was 18. 
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Volunteer. Donate. Become a foster parent or mentor. Here are some ways to help foster children and teens in Colorado:
- Serve a meal, teach a youth how to interview for a job, collect items for an apartment kit for a teen who has aged out of foster care: United Way of Metro Denver,
- Become a mentor for foster youth age 12-18 to help them transition to adulthood: The Adoption Exchange,
- Tutor a foster youth trying for a GED, help with yard work or serve a meal:
- Become a CASA, a court-appointed special advocate for a foster child in your county:
- Help with job training or donate items to
- Become a or a respite foster parent to give full-time foster parents a break: County child welfare departments,
- Support a scholarship program for aged-out foster youths: ,, at the Daniels Fund
- Donate to in Boulder, a transitional living program for youths who have aged out, or the coming-soon
- Use the state child welfare division’s online search tool to figure out how best to help local organizations in any Colorado community,
Read The Denver Post’s special report, Aged Out, about foster care in Colorado