Reproductive Health Equity

We believe all Coloradans, no matter who they are or where they live in the state, should have the information and services they need to make informed and timely decisions about their health and well-being.

Sexual and reproductive health is directly tied to a person’s health and well-being. Medically accurate information and culturally relevant services are essential in supporting all Coloradans, especially young people, in making decisions about their bodies, relationships, and futures. This includes whether and when to use contraception, start a family, or continue a pregnancy.

In 2026, Caring for Colorado concluded ReproCollab — a ten-year initiative to advance reproductive health equity in Colorado. Read about the results of this work, what we learned and the work that remains.

Our work is not done, however.  We remain committed to building a strong ecosystem across Colorado that ensures all people have equitable access to healthcare, education and systems to realize their sexual and reproductive goals.

We center our work through a collaborative model that engages funders, clinicians, researchers, community organizations, and grassroots leaders to improve reproductive healthcare, strengthen advocacy efforts, and develop leadership for reproductive health equity in Colorado.  At the heart of this work, is a commitment to learning from and building better systems with communities that have historically been denied access to resources and information to determine their sexual and reproductive goals.

Our funding is prioritized in four ways:

Through our responsive, statewide grantmaking, we prioritize funding to school-based health centers to provide contraceptive care and education to young people in a trusted, adolescent-focused clinic at school, and to non-profit organizations and schools seeking to provide comprehensive sex education to young people.

Choose When provides grants to safety net health clinics to support access to contraceptive care in communities with a high proportion of uninsured and underinsured individuals and where contraceptive care is limited. Choose When’s goal is to make all contraceptive methods affordable and available for all Coloradans. By offering grants to clinics across the state, Choose When eases the financial burden on individuals and ensures that contraception is available at no cost to the patient. 

SOMOS (Spanish for “We Are”) is a community designed and led sexual and reproductive health education program for young Latinas and the adults in their lives. SOMOS was developed using a human-centered design process focused on Latina youth and their caregivers. Today it is a Latina-led movement that gathers the Latina community to have meaningful conversations with young people about vital life issues in their lives that can be tricky to navigate and talk about including reproductive and sexual health, bodily autonomy, healthy relationships, consent, personal values, and pathways for reaching personal goals.

Originally designed and delivered in Pueblo and Adams counties, SOMOS is expanding across Colorado through a partnership with Vuela for Health, a respected community-based organization. Our vision is that SOMOS continues to grow and reach Latina youth and their families across the state to address the gap in culturally responsive and community-led sexual health education programming.

To realize the long-term goals of achieving and sustaining reproductive health equity in Colorado, health systems and policies must be addressed. This work, led by the non-profit subsidiary of Caring for Colorado – The Colorado Centennial Fund – seeks to engage and leverage community, regulatory, legislative, and philanthropic expertise to create public policies and improve health, education and financing systems to advance reproductive equity. We do this by convening and partnering with an interconnected field of advocates while also developing leaders, bringing evidence-based programs to our state, supporting narrative change and evaluating programs to know what works.

The Centennial Fund is one of the few organizations in the state dedicated to advocacy efforts to protect reproductive health, education and rights, wholistically, through partnerships.

In 2028, the Centennial Fund will announce its long-term strategy for building and sustaining reproductive health equity. Please join our mailing list to stay up to date on our work in this area.

For the past decade, Caring for Colorado’s work in reproductive health equity, has been financially supported by several foundations and individual donors.  These partnerships have allowed our state to advance farther and faster due to these collective resources.  Our funding partners are: