Community Resources/Services

Community-based organizations create pathways empowering parents and caregivers to meet their family’s basic needs now and in the future. Research has shown timely access to services prevents child abuse and neglect. These services include things like {insert as appropriate to the audience: utility assistance, mental health services, food assistance and pantries, Colorado’s child abuse & neglect hotline (1-844-CO-4-KIDS), among many others.} Just as a house’s strength may be threatened by unpredictable weather, a family’s well-being may be threatened by unexpected challenges such as a job loss or serious illness. Community-based resources empower families to successfully weather such storms.