The Caring for Colorado Foundation is accepting applications for its Youth Health and Well-Being funding opportunity.
Donor Name: Caring for Colorado Foundation
State: Colorado
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/06/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The purpose is to advance health and well-being for young people, ages 9 to 25, in Colorado who experience health inequities due to economic injustice, racism, and discrimination through strategic investments designed to support young people, strengthen families, and build youth-centered communities.
Focus Areas
- Supporting Young People
- To support young people (ages 9-25) in developing a strong sense of belonging, identity, purpose, and agency.
- Strengthening Families
- To support parents and caregivers of young people (ages 9-25) in developing secure and supportive relationships with their adolescent children.
- Building Youth-Centered Communities
- To support communities in creating equitable access to services, spaces, and systems that are youth-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed.
Eligible Funding Strategies
- Supporting Young People
- Young people (ages 9-25) have the opportunity to:
- Cultivate healthy, supportive relationships and social networks with peers, near-peers, and trusted adults.
- Explore their values, interests, and goals.
- Contribute in meaningful ways to others and their community.
- Make good decisions and establish positive health behaviors.
- Young people (ages 9-25) have the opportunity to:
- Strengthening Families
- Parents and caregivers of young people (ages 9-25) have the opportunity to:
- Strengthen family bonds and cultivate healthy parent/ caregiver-adolescent relationships.
- Deepen their knowledge of adolescent development and parenting strategies that support young people’s health and well-being.
- Develop meaningful social connections with other parents, caregivers, and advocates.
- Access concrete support, especially in times of need.
- Parents and caregivers of young people (ages 9-25) have the opportunity to:
- Building Youth-Centered Communities
- Young people (ages 9-25) have the opportunity to:
- Receive youth-centered healthcare.
- Be safe from interpersonal, family, and community violence.
- Successfully transition into adulthood.
- Access inclusive, safe spaces designed to foster social connections and promote positive health outcomes.
- Experience coordinated systems of care — especially for those with complex needs who seek
- services across multiple systems — that are informed by young people and their families.
- Young people (ages 9-25) have the opportunity to:
Grant Period
Applicants may request funding for a period of 12 to 36 months.
Youth Health and Well-Being Priority Populations
Foundation work to improve health outcomes for people experiencing the greatest inequities in health, well-being, and opportunity. Recognizing that economic injustice, racism, and discrimination are major drivers of health inequity, for the Youth Health and Well-Being funding priority, Foundation prioritize:
- Young people and families living with low incomes, defined as living below 260% of the federal poverty level, 80% Area Median Income, or TANF eligible.
- Communities of color, including individuals from various racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds not identified as white.
- Young people who identify as 2SLGBTQAI+.
- Young people who are experiencing the child welfare system.
- Young people being raised by grandparents or other kinship caregivers.
- Young people who are experiencing housing insecurity.
- Young people who are experiencing the juvenile justice system.
- Young people who are pregnant or parenting.
- Young people who are experiencing interpersonal or family violence or abuse.
- Newly arrived immigrants or refugees.
- Young people who are experiencing family separation and/or instability due to parent involvement in the justice or immigration system.
- Young people living with visible or invisible disabilities, including physical or intellectual disabilities or mental health conditions that create barriers to education, healthcare, or employment.
- Young people who are pregnant or parenting.
Eligibility Criteria
- Supporting Young People:
- The proposed work serves a minimum of 75% of young people who live on low incomes (at or below 260% of the federal poverty level, 80% Area Median Income, or TANF eligible).
- Proposed work explicitly centers one of Caring for Colorado’s priority populations.
- Strengthening Families:
- The proposed work serves a minimum of 75% of young people who live on low incomes (at or below 260% of the federal poverty level, 80% Area Median Income, or TANF eligible).
- Proposed work explicitly centers one of Caring for Colorado’s priority populations.
- Building Youth-Centered Communities:
- The proposed work serves one or more of the following counties: Alamosa, Archuleta, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Delta, Fremont, Garfield, Huerfano, Kit Carson, Lake, La Plata, Las Animas, Lincoln, Logan, Mesa, Montezuma, Montrose, Morgan, Otero, Phillips, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Grande, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma.
- School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) that provide comprehensive, equitable healthcare to young people (ages 9 to 25).
For more information, visit CCF.
