Be the Source

Our Values: Live Experience - Community - Resourcefulness - Balance in Child Welfare Be the Source's mission is to promote healing and stability for children and families impacted by foster and kinship care through transformational resources, community and support. Founded as a grassroots initiative in 2016 by former foster parents and current adoptive parents, Renee and Brian Bernhard, "Foster Source" was created to address critical gaps in support for both caregivers and the vulnerable children in their care. In response to the 2018 passage of the Family First Prevention Services Act, Foster Source expanded its programs to better support kinship caregivers in addition to foster parents. With the full implementation of the Act in 2022, the organization became one of the few agencies in the state of Colorado to offer dual support for both children and their caregivers in the child welfare system. In 2025, Foster Source rebranded to "Be the Source" to reflect its expanded mission and the variety of families it now serves. Today, Be The Source is committed to turning the focus back to the children, ensuring they receive the care and stability they deserve. The agency is focused on addressing needs including: under-resourced caregivers; lack of lived-experience voices in local, state and federal policy decisions; overall lack of understanding about the purpose of out-of-home care; mental health and wellbeing of caregivers and children; stability for children in care; and reducing or removing the barriers and lack of resources that child welfare families face.