The conditions under which infants are born, their health and the early care they receive have lifelong effects on their development. In support of this, we continued our long-time funding for Invest in Kids, a nonprofit organization that serves as a statewide catalyst and resource for communities interested in the Nurse-Family Partnership program. Through this program, nurses visit low-income, first-time mothers in their homes and help them set such goals as how to improve their health and nutrition during pregnancy, learn effective early parenting skills, complete school and find employment.  This program is up and running in 80% of Colorado’s counties and has served nearly 7,000 women to date. A new report was released in 2006, Invest in Results: The Story of The Colorado Trust’s Nurse-Family Partnership & Invest in Kids Initiative.  Grantee Story: Invest in Kids Denise Silva, daughters Trinidie and Haven, and Nurse Home-Visitor Karla Work. See story... For the eighth year we also continued our funding for Qualistar Early Learning, a nonprofit organization that provides child care referrals statewide, and has a rating system that measures the quality of those programs. Qualistar has rated the quality of nearly 800 child care centers in 46 Colorado counties, helped providers to improve the quality of care and assisted more than 200,000 families in locating quality child care. 
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1 - First Years of Life
2 - Safe, Healthy, Engaged Kids
3 - Quality Health Care
4 - Opportunities for All