KIDS COUNT has used data to help call attention to emerging trends impacting kids in communities across the state. This year, the Colorado Children's Campaign marked the 25th birthday of KIDS COUNT in Colorado! by exploring this important question: What has changed for Colorado kids in the past 25 years? Long-term trends are not possible for every indicator, but a few success stories have emerged. Colorado's infant mortality rate in 2016 was nearly half of what it was 25 years earlier. The teen birth rate plummeted by nearly 70 percent, and our uninsured rate for kids reached a record low in 2016. The number of available spaces in early learning programs like the Colorado Preschool Program climbed steadily, and the share of Colorado kindergartners enrolled in a full-day program increased five-fold. Behind each of these numbers are real children who are better off as a result of policy decisions that contributed to these trends. The data in this report also shows where Colorado has work to do. For example, in 2015, the state's teen suicide rate--consistently one of the highest in the nation-- reached a rate not seen in the previous 25 years. Although infant mortality rates have declined overall, they remain high for some demographic groups. The school funding system has not been updated in nearly a quarter of a century and reading scores of fourth graders have been stagnant for nearly a decade.