Colorado Family Caregivers

What Colorado Family Caregivers does

Colorado Family Caregivers is a privately held, for-profit home healthcare agency founded in 2016 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The company operates as an approved provider agency under the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF), delivering caregiver services reimbursed by Colorado Medicaid across multiple waiver and state plan programs: Community First Choice (CFC), In-Home Support Services (IHSS), the Children's Extensive Support (CES) Waiver, the Supported Living Services (SLS) Waiver, and a Parent CNA Program. The agency hires family members, friends, and other trusted individuals as W2 employees to serve as paid caregivers for children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (I/DD), positioning the highest published pay rates in Colorado and comprehensive benefits (PTO, Medical/Dental/Vision, Retirement, Continuing Education) as its core differentiators. Founded by a mother of an adult daughter with Down Syndrome, the company emphasizes rapid onboarding (within one week), direct coordination with case management agencies, and founder-driven empathy with the family caregiver experience.

The business model is straightforward managed services: the agency bills Colorado Medicaid at fixed reimbursement rates and pays caregivers a published hourly wage, retaining the spread plus an administrative margin. Pricing is fully transparent and unit-priced by service type and population, with caregiver wages ranging from $19.50/hour (Youth Day Services) to $41/hour (Mentorship) and overtime at 1.5x. There is no proprietary technology platform — intake is phone-based, marketing relies on the company website and word-of-mouth within the I/DD community, and operations are coordinated manually with case managers. The company is bootstrapped and founder-owned, with no disclosed external funding, M&A activity, or executive team beyond the founder. Service delivery is entirely in-home across Colorado, with no geographic expansion or diversification beyond the single-state Medicaid payer base.

Name

Colorado Family Caregivers

Legal name

Colorado Family Caregivers

Website

https://coloradofamilycaregivers.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Colorado Family Caregivers is a Colorado-based home healthcare agency that hires family members as W2 paid caregivers for children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities, billing Colorado Medicaid across CFC, IHSS, CES, SLS, and Parent CNA programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Home and Community-Based Disability Care Services

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (6216), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

General Babysitter/Nanny Placement Agencies (HSAAALAA)

Keywords

• Home health care
• Medicaid waiver services
• Family caregiver support
• Developmental disability care
• Personal care services

Headquarters

HQ city

Colorado Springs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Medicaid Waiver Services: The company generates revenue by providing caregivers for individuals enrolled in Colorado Medicaid waiver programs including CES Waiver (Children's Extensive Support), SLS Waiver (Supported Living Services), and IHSS (In-Home Support Services). Caregivers are hired as W2 employees and the agency receives reimbursement from Medicaid for services rendered.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Colorado Family Caregivers is a Colorado Springs-based home and community-based services agency that recruits, trains, and pays family members and direct support professionals to deliver in-home personal care, respite, mentorship, community integration, youth day, transportation, and extraordinary cleaning services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The agency operates as a Colorado Medicaid HCBS provider, billing Medicaid waiver programs (CES, SLS, IHSS, and CFC) for caregiver services delivered to enrolled members.

Product overview

Colorado Family Caregivers is a home healthcare agency that operates as a single unified service offering rather than a platform with separate modules. The agency connects family caregivers with Medicaid-funded care programs, offering services through several integrated programs: the Parent CNA Program (enabling parents to become certified nursing aides), Community First Choice (CFC for basic daily living support without a CNA license), IHSS (In-Home Support Services), CES Waiver (for children with disabilities ages 0-17), and SLS Waiver (for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities 18+). Additional sub-services include Respite, Mentorship, Extraordinary Cleaning, Community Connector, Youth Day Services, and Transportation. The company differentiates itself by paying the highest rates in Colorado for caregivers and offering comprehensive support including PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance, retirement plans, and continuing education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Parent CNA Program Employs and trains parents and family members as paid certified nurse aides/direct support professionals to provide in-home personal care to their own family members with intellectual and developmental disabilities, billed through Colorado Medicaid HCBS waivers.
• Community First Choice (CFC) Delivery of CFC-waiver personal care, homemaker, and related in-home attendant services to Medicaid-enrolled members with IDD in Colorado.
• In-Home Support Services (IHSS) Self-directed in-home attendant and personal support services for Medicaid-enrolled individuals in Colorado who direct their own care.
• CES Waiver (Children's Extensive Support) In-home and community-based supports for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in Colorado's CES Medicaid waiver.
• SLS Waiver (Supported Living Services) Supported living and community-based services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in Colorado's SLS Medicaid waiver.
• Respite Services
• Mentorship Services
• Extraordinary Cleaning Specialized heavy-duty or deep cleaning services for households of individuals with IDD, delivered by trained caregivers.
• Community Connector Service that connects individuals with IDD to community activities, resources, and natural supports to promote community integration.
• Youth Day Services Day services and structured programming for children and youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Transportation Non-medical transportation for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to community, day program, and other activities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Caregivers onboarded within 1 week
• +1 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF)coreOthersThe company is an approved provider agency operating under the authority of HCPF, which administers Colorado Medicaid programs including Community First Choice, CES Waiver, SLS Waiver, and IHSS. The company receives reimbursement for services rendered to eligible Medicaid members.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• BrightSpring Health Services: Public diversified home- and community-based provider with substantial I/DD waiver services and in-home caregiver offerings. Directly comparable in serving Medicaid waiver populations with a multi-program, multi-state footprint.
• Sevita Health: One of the largest U.S. providers of I/DD and behavioral-health home- and community-based services, operating family-model and in-home caregiver programs funded through Medicaid waivers. Closest analog to Colorado Family Caregivers' I/DD-focused mission at much larger scale.
• Addus HomeCare: Public home-care provider whose core segment is personal care services delivered through state Medicaid HCBS waivers to elderly and I/DD populations. Operates a similar agency-style model with family caregivers and has been acquisitive in the same waiver categories Colorado Family Caregivers serves.
• Bayada Home Health Care: Large nonprofit home-health and personal-care agency providing Medicaid waiver-funded in-home support across many states, including pediatric and adult I/DD services. Comparable caregiver-placement operating model and commitment to family caregivers as employees.
• Aveanna Healthcare: Public home-health and medical-solutions company with a large Private Duty Services segment that places caregivers (including family members) into Medicaid waiver and HCBS-funded in-home care programs across multiple states. Comparable agency model and payer mix.
• Centria Healthcare: Private provider of in-home behavioral-health, autism, and I/DD services, including family-centered caregiver models reimbursed by Medicaid. Overlaps with Colorado Family Caregivers on the family-paid-caregiver model for children with disabilities.
• Help at Home: PE-backed provider of in-home personal care services for individuals with I/DD, physical disabilities, and aging populations, primarily reimbursed through Medicaid HCBS waivers. Direct competitor in the family-caregiver-as-employee agency model.

Broad incumbents

• Enhabit: Public home-health and hospice provider serving Medicare and Medicaid populations in patients' homes. Larger and more clinically focused than Colorado Family Caregivers but operates in adjacent home-based care delivery.
• Pennant Group: Public operator of home-health, hospice, and senior-living services across many states. Broader portfolio than Colorado Family Caregivers but overlaps on home-health delivery and Medicaid-eligible populations.

Regional players

• Caring Senior Service: Franchise-based in-home senior care agency providing personal-care and homemaker services, including Medicaid-funded programs in select states. Comparable family-caregiver agency model but oriented to seniors and not I/DD specifically.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/coloradofamilycaregiversfacebook
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coloradofamilycaregivers

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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