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Choose When

At Caring for Colorado, we believe that access to reproductive healthcare, including affordable and accessible contraceptive care, is a fundamental human right. The ability to decide if and when to start a family is crucial for each individual’s overall health and well-being.

Choose When works to ensure that all contraceptive methods are affordable for everyone in Colorado. By offering grants to safety net clinics across the state, we aim to ease the financial burden for people who are uninsured, underinsured, or require confidential services. The grants make contraception more accessible at no cost to the patient.

Choose When is a three-year pilot project designed to tackle the financial barriers that currently hinder access to contraceptive care. Our goal is to enhance healthcare financing and systems of care so that initiatives like Choose When are no longer necessary. We envision a future where everyone of reproductive age has the healthcare access they need to make informed decisions about their futures.

What We Fund

Choose When provides grant funding to community-based safety net clinics to stock and offer a full range of contraceptive options. This grant funding focuses on safety net clinics in areas with limited access to contraception and those serving large numbers of uninsured and underinsured individuals.

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Donate Today

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:

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.