Impact on youth

Counties in Colorado provide a matrix of services to help at-risk youths and prevent a raft of future problems.

Boulder County interlaces such services among an 11-agency collaboration catching at-risk youths in a web of care that leads to better outcomes and safer communities. After 14 years of dedicated, results-driven work, Boulder County IMPACT was named the 2012 Colorado Collaboration Award winner by the Colorado Nonprofit Association.

“They’ve been very effective in combining efforts of government agencies and also nonprofits to effectively serve youth at risk so they do not become part of the justice system as adults,” said Renny Fagan, president…