Services: Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is a nurse home visiting program. Spanish services.
Eligibility: Available to first time moms who meet income eligibility. Serves Eagle County.
Cost: Free
Youth & Family
Eagle County Public Health and Environment; Healthy Families
Services: Family Connects is a nurse home visiting program. Spanish services.
Eligibility: Available to all Eagle County residents, without any other eligibility requirements. Serves Eagle County.
Cost: Free
Mountain Youth – Prime For Life
Services: Prime For Life is a substance intervention program that is used internationally. It uses tenets of motivational interviewing, connecting clients to their values, low-risk and high-risk behavior around substances, biological vs psychological factors. All this is enveloped in the program showing how their values are at risk around high-risk behavior with substances. From there, if the client decides to make a change, facilitators assist in creating a plan of action for change and support! These three or four group sessions will be held in the evenings, and will be 2 hours each, led by a trained facilitator. Spanish services.
Cost: Free
Eligibility: 14 to 18-year-olds. Serves Eagle County.
Mountain Youth – Tu Guia
Services: A youth-led and adult-supported program. It is for local high school and college students to tutor elementary students from all K-5th schools in Eagle County who may need academic assistance. Tutors create the academic lessons based on the students’ needs with a component of social-emotional curriculum. The goal is to individually increase these students’ academic levels. In addition, tutors are also working to assist the students’ parents in learning how to do this work with their kids on their own in the future. It is a generational program, which makes it unique from other tutoring programs. See website for volunteer and registration information. Spanish services.
Cost: Free
Eligibility: Elementary and Middle school students in Eagle County.
Mountain Youth – We Hear U
Services: This free program offered at Mountain Youth has been adapted for the Eagle County community from Active Parenting of Teens, an evidence-based program designed to help families survive and thrive. It focuses on active communication, parenting styles, logical consequences, mutual respect, and more. Spanish services.
Cost: Free
Eligibility: For families referred by a school counselor or other professional referral. Community members can sign up for the program themselves by filling out referral form on the website. Serves Eagle County.
Mountain Youth – Guiding Good Choices
Services: In five or six sessions, parents and caregivers learn specific actions that promote healthy development and reduce risky behavior in the teen years. Home practice and weekly family meetings build family connections and help families apply skills in real life. Guiding Good Choices emphasizes strong family bonds as the key that motivates preteens to follow family guidelines and stay on a course toward better health and educational outcomes as teenagers. Spanish services.
Cost: Free
Eligibility: For families of teenagers. Serves Eagle County.
Unite For Literacy
Services: Instant access to hundreds of online colorful, nonfiction picture books with easy-to-understand text for emergent readers. Books narrated by native speakers of 60+ languages. Promotes literacy, enhances cultural awareness, and makes reading accessible for all. To access go to website. Spanish services.
Cost: Free
Eligibility: None. No signup, login, or account creation. No ads, gaming or personal information collection. Serves Pitkin, Eagle & Garfield counties.
Vail Valley Charitable Fund (VVCF)
Services: Direct Aid: Helps local individuals and families facing medical crises or long-term illness with grants (up to $7,500) to cover medical bills, rent, utilities, or other essential needs. Eagle County Smiles Program: Provides free or reduced-cost dental care for uninsured children and youth (ages birth to 17) in our area of service. Eagle County Grins Program: Offers low-cost dental services (up to $3,000) for uninsured adults (ages 18 and older) in our area of service. Eagle County Moves Program: Offers physical therapy sessions to uninsured or underinsured individuals who live and work in the valley, helping access rehabilitation through partner providers. Vail Breast Cancer Group (VBCG): Supports women in Eagle County who are undergoing breast cancer diagnosis or treatment through financial aid, mammogram funding, and community support. Spanish Outreach: Bilingual (English/Spanish) assistance to help applicants navigate forms and connect with our programs. Community Referrals: Connects clients with additional resources such as mental health, housing, transportation, or food assistance programs. Volunteering and Events: Opportunities for community members to get involved in fundraising events like the LG Tri or Bowling for Boobs and to give back. Spanish services.
Cost: All applications and the application assistance for our programs are free of charge. There is a $25 copay at the first time of service for our dental and physical therapy programs.
Eligibility: Must live and work in our area of service (East Vail to Dotsero, including Minturn & Red Cliff) for more than one year. Must be facing a medical hardship or financial difficulty related to a health issue. Applicants provide documentation such as physician statements, medical bills, rent agreement / mortgage statements (demonstrating one year of residency), and proof of income. For EC Smiles and Free Screening Mammogram programs, specific applications are required (available on the website). Bilingual Application for Direct Aid, Eagle County Grins and Eagle County Moves https://form.jotform.com/202677284039057
