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Choose When

At Caring for Colorado, we believe reproductive healthcare, including access to affordable, person-centered contraception, is a fundamental human right. The power to decide if and when to start a family is essential to a person’s health, autonomy, and future.

Choose When is committed to making all contraceptive methods affordable and accessible for everyone in Colorado.

Through grants to community-based safety-net health clinics, we help eliminate cost barriers for people who are uninsured, underinsured, or in need of confidential care. These grants allow clinics to offer contraception at no cost to patients, expanding their access to the full range of options.

What We Fund

We prioritize support for health clinics serving communities that face the greatest obstacles to care, including financial hardship, geographic location, language and cultural barriers, and obstacles based on age or identity. By addressing these systemic gaps, we’re working to make reproductive healthcare more equitable for all.

Choose When was created to solve an urgent need, but we don’t want to exist forever. Our long-term vision is a future where the healthcare system itself ensures universal access to contraception, without the need for outside support. Until then, we’re here to ensure that every person of reproductive age in Colorado has the power to choose the method that’s right for them, supporting their health, their autonomy, and their future.

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What We're Learning

READ ABOUT EARLY LEARNINGS FROM THE CHOOSE WHEN PROGRAM

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Choose When is powered by everyday Coloradans looking to make a difference. A donation of any amount will remove financial barriers for Coloradans to meet their reproductive goals. Make your tax-deductible gift today!

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Funding Partners

Choose When is supported by grants from:

The Rowan Foundation

Grantee Partners

Mountain Family Health Centers serves Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin counties in Colorado’s Western Mountain Region. They’ve seen the significant impacts of the Medicaid disenrollment since March 2023. Marta Gruntmane, PA-C discusses birth control at Mountain Family’s Gypsum health center.

Summit Community Care Clinic provides care to rural Colorado communities in Summit, Lake, and Park counties, prioritizing their seven school-based health centers. The provider team includes Megan Wood, PA-C, MPH – Physician Assistant, Samantha Salquist – Medical Assistant, and Karen Meza – Director of Clinical Operations.

Our history

Choose When began in 2017, created by a group of community members concerned about access to reproductive healthcare in Northwest Colorado. With insight from healthcare professionals and community members experiencing barriers to care, they decided to fund local clinics to increase access to long-acting reversible contraception for patients who could not afford it. This decision came after learning that women in the community desired more birth control options beyond the pill and that long-acting methods were financially out of reach for those without insurance or in need of confidential services. Their successful approach inspired Caring for Colorado to expand Choose When statewide in 2023.

Choose When continues to support clinics in the Northwest region. If you are in this region and need care, please visit the Northwest Colorado Health website.

Choose When Founders talk about scaling the work to a statewide initiative with Caring for Colorado at an event in Steamboat Springs in August 2023.