For Colorado parents facing CPS
You are not alone. And you are not powerless.
When Child Protective Services enters your life, you're dropped into a system you never asked to learn — with your family on the line. The Parent Empowerment Project gives you free, plain-language education and private tools to understand your rights, keep your record straight, and meet the system on level ground.
- 100% free, forever
- No accounts or logins
- Your data stays on your device
- English & Español
- Built by a parent who's been there
Whatever your case looks like, you belong here
Most information out there quietly assumes a parent involved with CPS must be guilty. We reject that. Due process and civil rights belong to every parent — under investigation, in an open case, facing termination, or fighting to get your kids back. Grandparents and kinship caregivers, too. We never tell you what to do. We give you the information and the tools; the decisions stay yours.
Understand what's happening
The process, the hearings, the deadlines, and every person in the room — explained in plain words, start to finish, so nothing blindsides you.
How a Colorado case worksKnow your rights
Parents have rights the system doesn't always volunteer. Learn what they are, where they come from, and the questions many parents ask to protect them.
Read the rights guideKeep your record straight
Cases are won and lost on documentation. Log every contact, track every records request, and turn problems into clear, professional complaints.
Use the free toolsEight tools that live on your device — not our servers
No sign-ups. Nothing you type is sent to us — it stays in your browser, and you can export, print, or erase it anytime.
Contact & Documentation Log
Every call, visit, and conversation — who, when, what was said, what was agreed. The backbone of a well-kept case.
Open the logCase Timeline Builder
Every event of your case on one dated line — with a print view your attorney will thank you for.
Build your timelineComplaint Builder
Answer plain questions and get a clear, professional complaint letter — supervisor, county, or the state Ombudsman.
Build a complaintGrowing every week
- New Two new tools: Court Dates & Deadlines (adds hearings to your phone's calendar) & Visit Prep Checklist
- New Questions Parents Ask — the 2 a.m. questions, answered plainly
- New Printables & wallet cards — rights one-pager, crisis card, at-the-door card, English y español
- New The resource directory doubled — food banks, benefits, school/504 help, libraries, the law itself & recording tools
- New Todo el sitio — guías, herramientas, recursos — ahora en Español
- New For attorneys, advocates & allies — how professionals can share this work
- New Where Am I in the Process? — interactive stage-by-stage map, also en Español
- Coming soon Recorded audio versions of every guide
We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice — it's real information and working tools, built carefully and reviewed for accuracy. When something matters to your specific case, we'll always point you toward licensed help, like Colorado's Office of Respondent Parents' Counsel — free, court-appointed lawyers for parents who qualify.
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