Larimer 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 Larimer 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 Larimer County is Foothills Gateway.
Contact Sondra Lee
p: 970.226.5424; f: 970.226.2613
email: sondral@foothillsgateway.org
address: 301 West Skyway Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525


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.
email: familyleadershipco@gmail.com
address: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver, CO 80246-1530


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. 
Estes Park Clinic
p: 970.586.9230 (medical); 910.586.3850 (dental)
address: 1950 Redtail Hawk Road, Estes Park, CO 80517
Fort Collins Clinic
p: 970.494.4040
address: 1635 Blue Spruce Drive, Suite 160, Fort Collins, CO 80524


Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs is a program that provides specialty medical services, care coordination, and information for children who have special health care needs and their families. This HCP serves Larimer County. Services include newborn hearing screening, referrals for children with suspected disabilities, care coordination, pediatric neurology, rehabilitation, and more.
p: 970.498.6700
address: 1525 Blue Spruce Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524


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 Jennifer Salvador at the Larimer County Bright Beginnings, Poudre Valley Health System.
p: 970.495.7528
email: brightbeginnings@pvhs.org
address: 1224 Doctors Lane, Fort Collins, CO 80524