Steps to Hosting

Learn more about CHOICE to see if the program is right for you.

Complete the application that will be sent to you by a CHOICE staff member after you've attended an Orientation.

Come hang out with other adults and meet our amazing youth.

This 2-hour training covers program protocols, roles and responsibilities, and provides tools and resources for interacting with youth.

This 12-hour training is hosted over the course of two days and provides information about youth in foster care, how they are affected by past trauma, and how you can connect with and support them.

Complete two webinars through CWTS, Colorado's Child Welfare Training System.

CPR/First Aid can be completed through any organization of your choosing. Once completed you will provide a copy of your certificate to CHOICE staff.

Fill out a Vehicle Agreement Form and provide driver’s license and proof of insurance. You will also submit background checks through an online platform.

All volunteers engaging with our youth must be fingerprinted. If you have been fingerprinted within the last year you may be able to provide those results.

CHOICE staff will complete a home assessment interview and physical environmental checklist with you in your home. This allows our staff and the youth's caseworker to get to know you better and to ensure your home is a safe place.

Youth and adults will meet each other at CHOICE events. If there is a mutual connection between your family and a youth, you will have the opportunity to explore a hosting relationship.

Once you have been fully approved and have spent at least three events with a youth, you will meet with CHOICE staff and the youth’s team to discuss the relationship moving forward.

You and the youth you have been matched with may start spending time together in the community and in your home. Hosts are required to see the youth they are matched with twice per month for a minimum of one year.