Services: Online smoking cessation management aided by medication and coaching. Teenager specific. A statewide service of National Jewish Health.
Cost: Free
Eligibility: Anyone
Youth & Family
Aspen Youth Center
Services: Free year round programs that foster personal growth, positive relationships and academic success. Through mentorship, recreational activities and life skills development, youth realize their full potential through partnerships in education with local non-profit organizations such as Aspen Learning Lift, Aspen Science Center, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, Aspen Words, WindWalkers and Blazing Saddles.
Cost: Free
Eligibility: Grades 4-12 after school program.
SOS Outreach (SOS)
Services: Extended learn to ski or snowboard program combined with mentorship and training in character building and leadership skills. Career development skills and placement in 5 week paid work opportunity in the outdoor industry also available. Mentor volunteer opportunities as well as paid internship. Learn to ski or snowboard weekend also available to parents of participants. “Since 1993, we’ve been using mentorship and a proven, multi-year curriculum to foster a sense of belonging in kids and teenagers.”
Cost: “We are committed to eliminating any financial barriers to youth accessing our programs by offering free or low cost programs. Gear, lift tickets and instruction provided. No matter what social, societal, or economic barriers exist—SOS Outreach believes every child deserves the opportunity to thrive.”
Eligibility: Regional program is offered in Eagle County. Participants aged 4th -12th grades. Mentors and parent learn to ski or snowboard weekend for adults.
Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra
Services: The Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra inspires, educates & empowers our youth through orchestral music training and performance. There are a variety of programs in Silt, New Castle, Carbondale to Aspen. “The Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra provides student musicians in the Roaring Fork Valley region the opportunity to play in an orchestra from kindergarten through high school and a path towards musical excellence.”
Cost: Yearly tuition averages $550. One-half of all students are on scholarship assistance and tuition can be paid in installments. “Scholarships and an instrument lending library make the RFYO accessible for all families. ”
Eligibility: K-12 age young persons.
The Cycle Effect
Services: The Cycle Effect works to provide young women equal opportunity and access to the sport of mountain biking. We aim to serve 70% of participants who identify as Latina and/or Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and work to remove financial barriers while supporting the social-emotional wellbeing of our participants. Focus is on physical wellness, community impact and mentorship, and building brighter futures. Bilingual.
Cost: $65 per 6 week session w/ 2 sesssions per week, scholarships available. Bikes, transportation and gear provided.
Eligibility: Girls 10-18 and seperate women’s program 18+. Regional organizations throughout the state; Eagle and Edwards in Eagle County.
Aspen Science Center
Services: Focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education for youth. Hands-on engaging and bilingual programs spark curiousity and cultivate critical thinking. Free programs once a month for ages 5-13 at libraries throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. Paid internships for those in 9th-college age interested in science education.
Cost: Free programs and scholarship programs.
Eligibility: Youth and families in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Eagle County Public Health and Environment; Healthy Families
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
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.
