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Colorado desperately seeking foster parents: The state needs 1,200 more certified foster families to care for kids
While there are 5,000 children now in out-home-placements, Colorado has just 2,000 foster families. The shortage means children are more likely to have to move to another county. It also...
More than half of Denver child-welfare workers couldn’t prove they passed background checks, audit finds
Of the 60 caseworkers and supervisors whose paperwork was requested, 57 percent had missing or incomplete documentation regarding background checks.
After being slammed two years ago, Denver nonprofit for disabled has cleaned up, auditor says
A tax-funded nonprofit that serves Denver residents with disabilities has straightened out its spending after a damaging audit revealed problems nearly two years ago.
Offline October: Littleton students organize social media blackout after teen suicides
About 150 students have kicked off a month-long social media blackout Oct. 1 by erasing Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and the rest from their screens. Since then, the "Offline October"...
“I didn’t believe I had to protect her from herself.” Family of Thornton girl speaks out against suicide, cyberbullying
In the weeks before she died, Isabella Martinez was called ugly and fake. Bella's family didn't know the extent of the bullying, nor the depth of the eighth-grader's sadness, until...
State shuts down Pueblo treatment center after complaints that children were underfed, abused
A mental health and substance abuse treatment center for children was shut down by state authorities this week following complaints that children were abused and underfed.
āMorning-after pillā is tougher to buy at Colorado pharmacies than the law allows, study finds
The emergency contraceptive drug that can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, commonly known as Plan B, has no age restriction and has federal approval for sale on pharmacy shelves, but...
Confederate flag raised at Denver high school football game leads to injuries, principal says
Players from Manual also told coaches that students on the visiting team, Weld Central High School, taunted them with racial slurs during tackles, according the principalĀ NickĀ Dawkins' letter.
Student deaths inspire suicide prevention conversation in Colorado communities
Following two student deaths in two days at the start of the school year, one of a junior at Arapahoe and the other an eighth-grader at nearby Powell Middle School,...
Colorado hospitals owed millions from state; officials worried they will have to turn away needy patients
Hospitals across Colorado are waiting on millions of dollars in reimbursements since the state Medicaid department went live with a new technology system six months ago.