Want to help Colorado foster kids?

Volunteer. Donate. Become a foster parent or mentor. Here are some ways to help foster children and teens in Colorado:

•Serve a meal, teach a youth how to interview for a job, collect items for an apartment kit for a teen who has aged out of foster care: United Way of Metro Denver’s Bridging the Gap, unitedwaydenver.org/what-is-bridging-the-gap.

•Become mentors for foster youths ages 12-18 to help them transition to adulthood: The Adoption Exchange’s Choice program, adoptex.org.

•Tutor a foster youth trying for a GED, help with yard work or serve a meal: Urban Peak, urbanpeak.org.

•Become a court-appointed special advocate, or CASA, for a foster child in your county: Colorado CASA, coloradocasa.org.

•Help with job training or donate items to Sox Place, soxplace.com.

•Become a foster parent or a respite foster parent to give full-time foster parents a break: County child welfare departments, co4kids.org/foster-care-and-adoption-contacts; Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains, lfsrm.org.

•Donate to a scholarship program for aged-out foster youths: Forward Steps, forwardsteps.org; Realities for Children, rfcbc.org; Boundless Opportunity Scholarship at the Daniels Fund, danielsfund.org/boundless.

•Donate elsewhere: Boulder’s Polaris House, a transitional living program for youths who have aged out, rfcbc.org; the soon-to-open Anchor House, my.cotribute.co/community/anchor-house/detail.