PROJECT 1 27

Project 1.27 recruits and trains foster parents from Colorado churches and communities to serve children who have experienced abuse and neglect and are involved in the child welfare system. The organization provides 30 hours of state-certified, faith-based training for eight annual cohorts. In fiscal year 2024/2025 forty individuals attended the required trainings to become foster and adoptive parents, and an additional 166 individuals received training to serve as support team members for foster families. Project 1.27 provides ongoing support as families become licensed and begin the fostering process. The organization conducted advanced continuing education trainings and provided hard goods and resources to 544 Colorado kinship, foster, and adoptive families and 1,673 children involved in the child welfare system. In addition to service areas throughout the Front Range and Western Slope, Project 1.27 expanded services to Delta County in fiscal year 2024/2025.

Project 1.27 recruits volunteer Neighbors to provide a monthly meal and encouragement to kinship and foster families. The program increases the retention of kinship and foster homes, thereby decreasing placement disruptions for children in foster care. This support provides children in care with opportunities to develop healthy, healing relationships with foster providers and helps avoid the additional trauma associated with placement disruption. In fiscal year 2024/2025 the Neighbor Program served 70 foster families caring for 111 children.