Adams County Resources

Child Find is a component of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that requires states to identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities, from birth to age 21, who are in need of early intervention (for children birth through three) or special education services (for children ages three and up). Every school district or Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) has Child Find professionals who are trained to evaluate children in a variety of areas, including cognitive functioning, physical functioning, hearing and vision, speech and language and social and emotional development. Evaluations are conducted by the Child Find team at no cost to parents. Click here for a listing of Child Find locations in Adams County.


States have different eligibility guidelines for their early intervention programs and special education services. In Colorado, early intervention services for children birth to three years of age are provided through Early Intervention Colorado. In order to receive early intervention supports and services, the family and child must be Colorado residents. The child must be under three years of age and either have a developmental delay or be diagnosed with a physical or mental condition with a high probability of resulting in a significant developmental delay. Click here for a list of medical conditions that have a high probablility of resulting in developmental delay. The Early Intervention Colorado program for Adams County is North Metro Community Services.
Contact Reina Bobadilla:
p: 303.252.7199; f: 303.252.7355
email: reina.bobadilla@nmetro.org
address: 1185 West 124th Avenue, Westminster, CO 80234


The Arc of Adams County provides advocacy supports for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Advocacy is speaking and doing in support of another person's needs and desires. Here you can learn where to go, what to do, and how to get there.
p: 303.428.0310, f: 303.650.9070
address: 641 E. 112th Avenue, Northglenn, CO 80233
email: info@arcadams.com


The Arc of Aurora is a membership non-profit organization that provides individual and systems change advocacy for and with people with developmental disabilities and their families through information and referral, community education and training, and individual, family, and class support.
p: 720.213.1420, f: 720.213.1423
address: 1342 South Chambers Road, Aurora, CO 80017


Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs is a program that offers support and resources for parents and their children with special health care needs from birth to age 21. Services are provided free of charge and include information and resources on health care, child development, nutrition, education, recreation, insurance and support groups.

p: 303.761.1340
address: 4857 South Broadway, Englewood, CO 80110


Colorado Bright Beginnings is empowering parents with the guidance, knowledge and tools to create a bright beginning for their child. By the age of three, most of a child's physical, intellectual and emotional development is well underway. Everything a parent does has a lasting affect on the child's success, including the child's readiness to learn. Parents have the power to shape their child's future and Colorado Bright Beginnings has the power to help parents. We'll give you some simple ways to start with a free packet of powerful tools. In Colorado communities throughout the state, we will meet you at home, your work or any other community setting that's easy for you. Since 1995, we have helped over 100,000 Colorado families unleash the power of parenting.
Contact Amy Slaughter at the Adams County Bright Beginnings, Metro Denver Bright Beginnings.
p: 303.321.1214 x30
email: amy.slaughter@brightbeginningsco.org 


Advanced Pediatric Associates is a private pediatric care provider office that strives to provide a medical home to patients. Their Aurora office is located in the Aurora Health Plaza at 13650 East Mississippi Avenue, Suite #110, Aurora, CO 80012.
p: 303.699.6200, f: 303.338.9811


Aurora Mental Health Center provides the following services/facilities: Early Childhood and Family Center (for children birth to age 5 with emotional or behavioral difficulties and their families), Outpatient Services, Metro Children's Center, Child Intensive Services, Adolescent Intensive Services, Intercept Center (for children ages 5 to 21 with developmental disabilities and mental illness), Hampden Academy (a therapeutic school for children 13 to 18), School-Based Therapists, Childhood Trauma Treatment and Research, Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Safe and Stable Families, and Aurora Youth Options.  
p: 303.617.2300
email: info@aumhc.org
address: 11059 East Bethany Drive, #200, Aurora, CO 80014


Community Reach Center is a mental health provider in the northern Denver area, and is the designated mental health provider for anyone eligible for Medicaid in Adams County.
24-Hour Crisis Help line and phone number: 303.853.3500
email: information@communityreachcenter.org
address: 8931 Huron Street, Thornton, CO 80260


North Metro Community Services oversees programs for children from birth through age 17 and their families, including: Early Intervention services, Family Support Services Program (FSSP), the Children's Extensive Support (CES) Program, the Children's Home and Community-Based Services (C-HCBS) Medicaid Waiver Program, and Children With Autism (CWA) Waiver program.
p: 303.457.1001; f: 303.255.6510


Family Leadership Training Institute (FLTI) is a first-of-its-kind family civics program. Program graduates spend more than 120 hours to develop skills needed to become effective leaders in their communities. Once recruited and accepted in to the program, participants attend a 20-week curriculum that integrates personal and child development, leadership training, civic literacy and civic participation skills. The curriculum includes four components: an initial retreat, two 10-week sessions that focus on knowledge about the change process, skill building, and tools of civic engagement; and a community project. In only 20-weeks, Institute graduates make a signifcant impact within their communities. Through their community projects they demonstrate that when given civic and leadership tools, families can guide public policy and decision making directly and indirectly through their actions and commitment to children, youth and the community.
Contact Sookhee Weber
p: 303.847.3443
email: skweber@yahoo.com


Rocky Mountain Youth Clinics (RMYC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing accessible, affordable, high-quality healthcare to children and adolescents, regardless of insurance status or the family's ability to pay. The RMYC has a unique model of care; reaching out into the community to provide healthcare services to children and adolescents where they are -- in community centers, residential treatment centers, schools, and shelters.
Contact Carole Saylor
p: 303.360.8111; f: 303.360.8088
email: carole@rockymountainyouth.org
address: 750 Potomac Street, Suite #L-23, Aurora, CO 80011


Salud Family Health Centers provides integrated primary health care services arranged to improve access and reduce barriers to care including ability to pay, transportation, and language. Salud operates 9 community health clinics and a mobile unit. Salud serves all community members with the low-income, medically underserved population and migrant and seasonal farmworker population as the priority clientele. Salud is committed to providing a medical home and does not turn patients away based on their finances, insurance coverage, or ability to pay.
Brighton Clinic
p: 303.659.4000
address: 1860 Egbert Street; Brighton, CO 80601
Commerce City Clinic
p: 303.286.8900 (medical); 303.286.6755 (dental)
address: 6255 North Quebec Parkway, Commerce City, CO 80022


Special Infant Project (SIP) is a program offered by Tri-County Health Department that provides public health nursing support to families with babies up to one year of age who are at risk for developmental delays due to problems associated with premature birth or other medical concerns.
p: 303.341.9370


Tri-County WIC provides nutrition counseling and vouchers for nutritious foods to income-eligible women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and children from birth through age five. WIC contributes to improved pregnancies and healthier children, resulting in better health and dramatic savings in medical care costs.


Longterm Care Options (LTCO) is a non-profit agency specializing in the personal coordination of long-term care services in community settings for individuals with disabilities. LTCO assists individuals navigate the long-term care service network to obtain assistance with daily living activities, such as eating, bathing, dressing, and homemaking tasks. Services can be arranged in someone's own home, an assisted living facility or in a nursing facility. LTCO's case management services are available on a self pay, insurance reimbursement, low cost or Medicaid basis, depending on a person's individual circumstances. LTCO is also Colorado's Single Entry Point agency for individual's seeking long-term care assistance through Medicaid in Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas and Elbert counties.
Adams County referrals: 720.974.2439
Main Phone: 720.974.0032, fax: 720.974.0053, intake fax: 720.974.0054
Main Address: 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80246
 

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