What We Do
We support children and youth to reach their full potential!
Friends for Youth serves at-risk youth, including youth in the highest levels of the risk continuum, older teens, and those who are the most difficult to access in the child welfare, foster care and juvenile justice systems. We support Positive Youth Development of at-risk youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare systems by providing caring adult mentors, life-enriching experiences and enhanced community connections resulting in successful life transitions.
Our Programs
The One-to-One Community Mentoring Program
provides youth with an engaged and supportive relationship with a caring adult mentor. Friends for Youth follows best practices of mentoring through quality volunteer training, matching, close supervision and personalized case management. The commitment is for matches to meet a min. of 2X per month, for a min. of 4 hours per month, for one year.
The Success Journey Program
serves youth who are currently incarcerated through the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections by providing a pro-social intervention and caring adult role model to support the youths transition back to community.
The Family Advocates and Mentoring Program
(FAM) is designed to provide youth and families with life skills services, youth mentoring, community resources, parenting skills training, advocacy, and a variety of other services. The goal of the FAM program is to keep families together by giving them the tools and support they need to be self-sufficient and positively attached. Services are provided by trained and caring adults from the same communities as the families being served. Services are tailored to fit the needs of each family and may be provided in a home or community setting.
Group Mentoring Activities
enhance our programs by offering both one-to-one matches and group mentoring participants an opportunity to participate in structured pro-social events including cultural, adventure and athletic opportunities.
Bilingual services are provided for all programs
Our Programs
The One-to-One Community Mentoring Program
provides youth with an engaged and supportive relationship with a caring adult mentor. Friends for Youth follows best practices of mentoring through quality volunteer training, matching, close supervision and personalized case management. The commitment is for matches to meet a min. of 2X per month, for a min. of 4 hours per month, for one year.
serves youth who are currently incarcerated through the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections by providing a pro-social intervention and caring adult role model to support the youths transition back to community.
The Success Journey Program
The Family Advocates and Mentoring Program
(FAM) is designed to provide youth and families with life skills services, youth mentoring, community resources, parenting skills training, advocacy, and a variety of other services. The goal of the FAM program is to keep families together by giving them the tools and support they need to be self-sufficient and positively attached. Services are provided by trained and caring adults from the same communities as the families being served. Services are tailored to fit the needs of each family and may be provided in a home or community setting.
enhance our programs by offering both one-to-one matches and group mentoring participants an opportunity to participate in structured pro-social events including cultural, adventure and athletic opportunities.
Group Mentoring Activities
Bilingual services are provided for all programs