.: Realities For Children :.

AGENCIES SERVED:

The children served by the members of Realities For Children are provided for through recognized ‘Affiliate Agencies’. Providing services through these specific agencies helps to insure that the children receiving assistance are abused and at-risk youth and that all other resources have been exhausted. Realities For Children currently assists the youth served by 18 Larimer County agencies and programs.

Realities For Children's Affiliate Agencies
Realities For Children, Inc. helps to raise over million dollars annually towards services for abused children in Larimer County. These dollars are distributed to children in need from Realities For Children's Affiliate Youth Agencies through our four core services: Community Awareness and Education, Fundraising Sponsorships to Children's Agencies, Special Youth Opportunities and Emergency Funding and Support.

Realities For Children Charities is a 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to serving the unmet needs of abused and neglected children in Larimer County. United with Realities For Children’s alliance of 140 local business Members - which underwrite the administration of all programs and services, this charity is uniquely able to ensure that 100% of every dollar donated, is able to directly benefit abused and neglected youth locally. Partnered in service with 17 local ‘Affiliate’ Youth Agencies and Programs, Realities is able to create an effective safety net of services, for the most vulnerable members of our community, through the provision of our Core Services.

In an effort to better serve abused and neglected children in Larimer County, Realities For Children is accepting donations year round to distribute to local, affiliate youth agencies. If you have a donation such as: gift cards, books, food, furniture, clothing, coats, sports equipment, diapers, shoes, toys or games, please let us know. We can disperse those items to the appropriate youth agency or let you know which agency you can directly deliver the items to. All donations are tax-deductible contributions, Realities For Children Charities hopes to get the community to respond to the non-emergency needs of our at-risk youth. This will leave more funding available for the immediate emergency needs of local agencies, helping all of us to reach even further into the darkness of child abuse and neglect.

If you have any questions or would like to donate, please email Info@RealitiesForChildren.com. You may also call 970.484.9090 or bring your items by the Realities For Children Office, located at 1610 S. College Avenue in Fort Collins, M-F from 8am-5pm. All monetary contributions can be made payable to: Realities For Children Charities and mailed to the address above.

Below is a list of agencies Realities For Children serves:

Emergency Funding Provided to:

Fundraising Sponsorship Provided to:

Adoption Dreams Come True
Adoption Dreams Come True works to make happy, healthy and lifelong families through the process of adoption from ages 0-2.
Alternatives to Violence
Alternatives to Violence is an agency committed to the intervention, education and prevention of domestic violence, sexual assault and other violent crimes.
CASA
CASA is court appointed advocates for children. CASA recruits and trains volunteers to represent the best interests for abused and neglected children within the court system.
The Center for Community Justice Partnerships
The Center is a non-profit agency, which offers education, intervention and support for families who are challenged by the adolescent years. One of our core beliefs is to create programs and support systems to help youth and families sustain long term, positive changes within the family unit.
ChildSafe Counseling Centers
ChildSafe repairs the damage done to victims and their families and prevents the cycle of abuse.
Harmony House
Harmony House allows children to have visits or exchanges with their family in a safe, non-threatening home like setting under the supervision of a trained community volunteer.
Hearts & Horses Therapeutic
Hearts & Horses promotes the physical, cognitive emotional and social well-being of people with special needs through equine assisted therapy.
Larimer County Child Advocacy Center
The family support program provides services to non-offending caregivers of children interviewed at the Center. A Family Support Worker will sit with the non-offending caregiver while their child is being interviewed. This agencies provides a supportive, welcoming and child-friendly environment, emotional support, crisis intervention, referrals for counseling or any other services needed (i.e. domestic violence shelters, parenting classes, restraining orders, housing, etc.) information about victim compensation, information about child protection and the criminal system, education about age appropriate sexual behavior and follow-up support and help as needed.
Larimer County Department of Human Services
The Department of Human Services provides services, which assist individuals and families to achieve self-sufficiency and social well being.
Larimer County Foster Children
The Foster Care Program provides recruitment, training, certification and retention services for family foster care providers.
Lutheran Family Services
Inspired by the compassionate love of Christ, Lutheran Family Services walks with the vulnerable, through services that heal, strengthen, and provide hope. The individuals served and assisted include: a child who is protected from abuse, an infant placed in a loving family, an elderly person who receives support, a distraught family that is healed and an individual who is offered a new beginning.
The Center for Community Justice Partnerships
The Center is a non-profit agency, which offers education, intervention and support for families who are challenged by the adolescent years. One of our core beliefs is to create programs and support systems to help youth and families sustain long term, positive changes within the family unit.
The Family Center/La Familia
The Family Center/La Familia provides education, information and support to families to improve their lives.
Jacob Center
The Foster Care Program provides recruitment, training, certification and retention services for family foster care providers.
The Matthews House
To support and encourage young adults seeking renewed purpose in life as they transition into adulthood from ages 16-21.
The Namaqua Center
The Namaqua Center provides round-the-clock treatment and care for young children who have been abused and neglected ages 3-12.
Partners Mentoring Youth of Larimer County
Creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships between positive adult role models and youth facing challenges in their personal, social and academic lives up to the age of 17.
Reflections for Youth
Reflections for Youth's mission is to foster the psychological, social and educational potential of our youth, families, and communities through researched-based practices that enhance self- awareness, understanding consequences of choice and responsibility to build positive relationships
Turning Point Youth Homes
Turning Point’s extensive continuum of services includes Community Centered Services, substance abuse treatment and education, residential and transitional services, state approved education programs and aftercare to youth and their families in Northern Colorado, Southern Wyoming and communities along the Front Range.
Triumph Awards Scholarship Endowment Fund
The Realities For Children Triumph Awards recognize and honor exceptional youth in our community, who not only survived the adversities of childhood abuse, but have also triumphed over them personally, socially and academically. The acknowledgement, educational opportunities and post-emancipation support that the Triumph Awards offer, help to empower these youth to break the cycle of abuse and neglect. Recipients are ages 16-18 at the time of nominations.

Realities For Children's Affiliate Agency Testimonials

“On behalf of the Larimer County Department of Human Services, I would like to extend my greatest appreciation to the members of Realities For Children. Every day, in our community, children are identified as being in harm’s way due to the neglect and abuse they are subjected to. It takes a community, not a single agency, to develop solutions to help kids. Thank you for supporting our efforts to protect our most vulnerable citizens." Angela Mead, Larimer County Department of Human Services - Deputy Division Manager

“Realities For Children, thank you for helping us provide a child-friendly environment designed to meet abused children’s needs for warmth, support and protection during investigations and treatment. Realities For Children’s faithful support has meant a great deal to the 4,694 children and their families seen at the Center since our beginning in January 1997.” Laura Hunt, Larimer County Child Advocacy Center – Executive Director

“If you want to change a life, the Realities For Children Triumph Awards is the place to invest. These kids need all of our help.” Stu VanMeveren, Former Larimer County District Attorney

“Realities For Children plays a valuable role in our mission to assist young victims of domestic violence. We call on them frequently to assist children who need food, clothing or transportation. Realities For Children is an integral part of our services, and we greatly appreciate their support!”
Rosemarie S. Fritz, Alternatives to Violence - Executive Director

“It is a challenging time for non-profits. The downturn in the economy has resulted in reductions in funding while at the same time, client needs have escalated. Realities For Children is an integral part of our vital services to help abused women and children. We are grateful for the business members and their partnership!” Rosemarie S. Fritz, Executive Director - Alternatives to Violence

Without the help of the business community, through Realities For Children, many young lives would not experience the help they need to start on a new pathway for positive change. In working with youth over time, it is very apparent to me that youth in conflict do not change because of programs, they change because of people. Neglect and abuse entered into the lives of these youth by people. People who most likley experienced neglect and abuse in their lives. So then, how does this cycle stop? Through people—people willing to touch another person’s life with love, mercy and grace. Frederick Buechner is quoted as saying, “The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.” Thanks to all the businesses in our community for starting the trembling.” Jim Barclay, President, Lutheran Family Services - CEO

“Realities For Children and their participating business members take pride in our community and value children and families. Larimer County Child, Youth and Family Services is excited to partner with Realities For Children to broaden public awareness regarding child abuse, neglect and the need for foster and kinship families, who open their hearts and homes to children whose families are in need.”
Ruben Guerrero, Department of Human Services, Children, Youth & Family Division

“Realities For Children has provided a unique opportunity for our pre-teen adolscent clients to participate in the CSU Ropes Course each year. The Ropes Course is invaluable to victims, as it helps to boost self-esteem, empowerment, self-confidence, and it’s just plain fun! Our girls leaves the Ropes Course viewing themselves more as survivors and less as victims.”Val Macri-Lind, Childsafe – Therapist

“CASA of Larimer County and its Harmony House Visitation Centers found 2007 to be a year of great growth, and thanks in-part to the support of Realities For Children Business Members, who are so generous to the youth of our community, we were able to reach 167 children, and the Harmony Houses were able to expand their hours to better serve 494 children. We could not do it without you all!”
Lynn Oesterle-Zollner, CASA of Larimer County – Executive Director

“The strong support, given to The Family Center/La Familia by Realities For Children and its business member partnerships, enables us to support local at-risk youth with programs – based on the specific needs in our community. Realities For Children’s financial backing allows us not to worry as to how we will fund these valuable services.” Alan Cohen, The Family Center/La Familia – Executive Director

“When you have nowhere else to turn, Realities For Children is there.”
Barbara Baldovin, The Jacob Center – Foster Care Coordinator