The Colorado Children's Campaign, a nonprofit organization, focuses "on expanding access to quality healthcare, early childhood experiences and K-12 education." See the "Kids Count" and "Reports and Publications" sections.

State agency responsible for managing, administering, overseeing, and delivering human services in Colorado. The mission of CDHS is to help individuals and families achieve and maintain positive outcomes through quality services. information regarding Colorado's human and social services programs, including food and cash assistance, programs for older and disabled individuals, and services for families and children.

A membership association and resource for nonprofit organizations in Colorado. Click on their "Public Policy" tab, which includes useful toolkits for lobbying, voter registration, and working with mass media.

"The Colorado Social Legislation Committee (CSLC) is a coalition of persons and organizations interested in legislation related to human needs and human services, especially at the state level. CSLC is a non-partisan, all-volunteer organization that works to create a better future for Colorado." The CSLC holds weekly meetings during the legislative session at which "legislators and community professionals present information about current problems and proposed legislation. Regular meetings are f

Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, as well as to the complete list of Colorado State Departments and Agencies. Use the Search link at the top of the page to search by topic.

"Housing Colorado is the unified resource in the state for affordable housing education, information and advocacy."

This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education. Reports include America's Children, the annual Federal monitoring report on the status of the Nation's children, and Counting Couples, among others.

The NCSL is a bi-partisan organization that aims to provide "research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues." Look in the "State and Federal Issues" section for overviews on criminal justice, education, health, human services, immigrant policy, and labor, in addition to general information about state legislatures.

"PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research. It offers a subject index, an internal search engine, useful abstracts, email notifications of newly added research, and will soon expand to offer information on researchers and funders, and even user-generated publication reviews."

The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. It investigates the social and economic problems confronting the nation and government policies and public and private programs designed to alleviate them.

The City and County of Denver website.

The Denver Regional Council of Governments is a planning organization where local governments collaborate to establish guidelines, set policy and allocate funding in the areas of:

Transportation and Personal Mobility
Growth and Development
Aging and Disability Resources

This database provides a wealth of data about the Metro Denver area, including demographics, economic, and real estate.