Future Home

The Village will be located within the Boulder community.  The infrastructure of ITAVB will be a sustainable green community.  We have been gifted to work with OZ Architects who created a rendering of the possibility of the how the housing will be situated. There will be a minimum of twelve eight bedroom cottages, so the adoptive parents can adopt as many as six children.  The limit is six children which also includes biological children in that figure.  The cottages are given free to the adopted families and a stipend of $20,000 for the parent that will be staying home.  The research indicates that there needs to be a minimum of three seniors per home to be an optimal support to the adoptive families. Although these figures can change as to how funding is becomes available, there will be seventy two children, twenty four adoptive parents and thirty six seniors. There will a large community building that will serve as a community kitchen, a recreation area for the children, and a senior meeting place.

Smaller square footage and having the Village be green and sustainable reduces utility costs. All social services will be given free to all of the members of the Village.  And the multifaceted use of all economic resources that are available to the Village such as entitlement programs from the public sector (government funding for seniors and for children), philanthropic resources, private funding sources, outside work from some of the members, any retail capital that the Village creates, in kind work all members give to each other, and the multiply use of personnel by all the Village members such as coordinators, psychotherapists and social workers also radically reduces costs. This is an umbrella of support.  And as It Takes a Village Boulder becomes more known as an innovative and a zeitgeist model of the future, the city of Boulder will not only be seen nationally as a city open to three disenfranchised groups, but also as a city that promotes these peoples to live at the highest potential and as a premier

Why Boulder?

Boulder, Colorado is a unique city in that many of the residents enjoy high levels of economic prosperity and are known to be well versed in the socioeconomic issues that create sharp divisions and inequalities in our society. The people of Boulder are open to an expansion in their understanding of the challenges of our elders and of our young people in the foster care system. As we move into the twenty-first century, the people of Boulder know they have a important community responsibility and an important opportunity to bring light these new understandings that reflect of highest level of awareness of social justice that afflict humanity.