Our Educational Advocacy Program is an in-school education advocacy and support for foster parents and children struggling in the education system. We offer one-on-one tutoring for youth of all ages and abilities. Tutoring can take place in person or over telehealth. Our tutoring focuses on regulating the brain and nervous system and utilizes playful engagement and connection to increase felt safety creating a fun and optimal learning environment. A further focus is on executive functioning skill practice to develop new neural pathways to learning.

Our staff is skilled at advocating for, developing, and understanding IEPs and 504s. We offer year-round tutoring, ramping up in the summer to continue and sustain skill-building. Like all programs at Kids Crossing, The Education Advocacy Program is trauma-responsive and operates from a strength and team-based approach.

Our Mobile Crisis team is designed to respond quickly to individuals and/or families in need of crisis intervention at home or anywhere in the community. The team strives to arrive within one hour.

The team members travel to the home or location to provide on-site, professional, and supportive crisis intervention for any child or youth experiencing an emotional disturbance, interpersonal crisis or psychiatric emergency.

Services include immediate crisis intervention to de-escalate the individual or family in crisis, assess the dangerousness of the situation, and determine the risk of suicide or danger to others. The team member may provide temporary respite by taking the child or youth out of the foster home for a brief period of time – to de-escalate the situation. The team member may – if necessary – arrange for a respite placement in another foster home – and provide transportation to the other home.

When to call: – 24/7 – 365 days

Please call 911 or visit the emergency department – before contacting the mobile crisis team – if the child or youth requires immediate care for the following:

• overdose 
• attempted or threatened suicide
• medically unstable or is in need of lifesaving care
• violent or aggressive behavior

Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection. TBRI® is designed to meet the complex needs of children who have experienced adversity, early harm, toxic stress, and/or trauma. TBRI® offers practical tools for parents, caregivers, teachers, or anyone who works with children.

Kids Crossing has a multi-disciplinary team of staff who are trained TBRI® practitioners. These practitioners teach TBRI® classes for caregivers and professionals who serve our community. Additionally, our practitioners offer individual consultations and support to catch behaviors when they are low and address needs in the home. All our staff and foster parents are trained in TBRI® and can assist caregivers in applying the TBRI®principles in their homes. 

Kids Crossing has long been committed to the service of children and their families. Treatment is trauma-responsive, strength-based, and addresses the entire family system. The Clinic offers an array of services for children, teens, adults, and families to meet varying treatment needs. All our therapists are trained in EMDR. We also offer Neurofeedback and services for juveniles court-ordered to SOMB services. We work hard at communicating closely with parents/guardians and other team members involved with a youth and/or family.

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GroundBreakers Kids Crossing offers a therapeutic work program for adolescents in Colorado Springs. Groundbreakers uses a cutting-edge curriculum to combine neuroscience, social-emotional health, and work ethic development to provide healing and training for a productive life. Youth generally spend 6-9 months in the program and have 16 contact hours per week. There is an internship and work placement for youth who have completed the first phase of the program or who already have work experience and need help finding employment.

Partners in Care works to maintain an Individual Residential Services and Supports (IRSS) program that provides quality services to adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Our approach is Person-Centered and individualized to each person receiving our services. We are committed to cooperation and teamwork as a basis for problem-solving. We work to ensure all possible resources are directed to solutions and stability.

Kids Crossing works to eliminate or reduce the cost of becoming and being a foster parent. Examples of the way we do this are:

• No charges for CPR/First Aid
• No charges for background checks: CBI, FBI, etc.
• No-cost licensing process
• Free training: CORE, TBRI®, etc.
• Free foster parent support group
• All foster children qualify for Medicaid services
• YMCA half-off membership
• Annual events for foster parents and children: BBQ, Holiday Party, etc.
• Foster child enrichment funds
• Foster parent appreciation and support funds
• School supply drive
• Clothing closet
• Foster child reimbursement

• Trauma informed staff that are always available 24-7.
• Next-level foster care case management and support.
• Ability to work with all counties across the state.
• Multiple services under one roof for collaborative care coordination.
• Specialized events and programs for all foster families
• Low barrier, no cost licensing process