COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM - 2024 RECIPIENT OVERVIEWS

5280 High School: 5280 High School serves students who struggle with substance abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, and other destructive behaviors. Intersession programming will bridge the gap for students and support programming around increased behavioral, academic, attendance, and college and career pathways outcomes.

Ability Connection Colorado: Ability Connection Colorado's RAMP Youth Resiliency Project provides trauma-informed, weekly mentoring support that focuses on ensuring a successful transition from school through a stage of career exploration and jobs for youth with disabilities, BIPOC youth, and at-risk youth ages 13-24.

Ability To Access: Ability To Access' Snackability food truck trains youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities — a significant underemployed and unemployed demographic — developing important skills and providing work experience to help them gain meaningful employment opportunities after graduation.

ActivateWork: ActivateWork combines IT job training and preparation with wraparound support to help learners complete 15-week boot camp programs focused on hard and soft skills development and find stable employment.

Angels Of America's Fallen: Angels Of America's Fallen provides trauma-informed, client-centered case management, outreach, and referrals, along with support for extra-curricular activities and mentorship at no cost to children of fallen military and first responders.

Antonito Together: Antonito Together's Youth Advisory Committee provides an opportunity for youth to understand their community needs and advocate for change, providing career exploration and mentorship as they engage in and learn about local governmental legislative processes and systems.

A Precious Child: A Precious Child is expanding its Satellite Resource Center at Adams City Middle School (Adams 14 School District) to meet increased demand in the community and serve more students.

Arapahoe High School: Arapahoe High School (Littleton Public Schools) is launching a girls flag football team in conjunction with CHSAA's sanctioning of girls high school flag football.

Atlas Preparatory School: Atlas Preparatory School is a Title I charter school that provides comprehensive summer programming to its K-12 students to ensure they have access to enriching experiences and trips as they learn, play and explore.

Aurora Public Schools Foundation: Aurora Public Schools is establishing a comprehensive flag football program for middle school girls, providing them with the necessary equipment and uniforms to participate actively and confidently and supporting a pipeline to high school girls flag football participation.

Better Tomorrow: Better Tomorrow provides youth in the 14th Judicial District with a safe, child-focused environment for police or child protective services to bring children who have experienced abuse and connects them with advocacy, mental health services, guidance through the legal system, and additional local resources.

Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club: Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club provides after-school and summer youth mentorship programs for children ages 6-18 and is expanding its summer programming from 40 kids per day to 200 kids per day.

Boulder Community Housing Corporation: Boulder Community Housing Corporation's Casa de la Esperanza Learning Center provides academic support and enrichment opportunities to overcome the economic, linguistic, and cultural challenges that at-risk youth whose parents work in the agricultural industry face.

Boys & Girls Clubs of The San Luis Valley: Boys & Girls Clubs of The San Luis Valley's workforce development and career pathways initiative equips predominantly Hispanic youth with the skills and experiences necessary for success in today's job market.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Weld County: Boys & Girls Clubs of Weld County's Club Experience high-yield activities and targeted programs support youth in the areas of academic success, good character and citizenship, and heathy lifestyles.

Brighton High School: Brighton High School (27J Schools) is updating its weight room by replacing a 20-year-old floor with a new one and updated clean/deadlift platforms.

Bruce Randolph High School: Bruce Randolph High School (Denver Public Schools) is launching a girls flag football team in conjunction with CHSAA's sanctioning of girls high school flag football.

Call Me MiSTER: Call Me MiSTER's teacher leadership program addresses the crucial need for greater diversity in Colorado's classrooms by leading in the recruitment, training, and placement of African American male teachers.

CASA of the Pikes Peak Region: CASA of the Pikes Peak Region provides youth in foster care and those who have been victims of abuse and neglect much-needed consistency and support, critical advocacy and access to basic needs and wraparound services.

Center for African American Health: The Center for African American Health (CAA Health) is launching a Barbershop Talks Mentoring Circles to provide a safe and supportive space for middle and high school-aged Black youth to connect with older generations of men who look like them.

Center for Family Outreach: The Center for Family Outreach's Teen Activity Center provides programming focused on school attendance and engagement, academic support and work-based learning activities to combat truancy and support justice-involved youth ages 11-18.

Cheyenne Village: Cheyenne Village's program focuses on outreach for young adults (ages 19-24) with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities who have aged out of the school system, supporting basic physiological needs in order for them to thrive mentally, emotionally and physically.

Childsafe Colorado: Childsafe Colorado provides therapy and support services in English and Spanish to youth survivors of child abuse and is expanding its impact with a second location in Loveland to better serve the northern Colorado community.

Cobbled Streets: Cobbled Streets' Guiding Lights program provides individualized and positive childhood experiences and opportunities for foster youth to mitigate the long-term impacts of trauma and adversity.

Colorado Friendship: Colorado Friendship's IncrEdibles program provides students from food-insecure families with bags of healthy, non-perishable food every Friday to help fill the nutritional gap that exists over the weekend.

Colorado Futuretek: Colorado Futuretek provides tuition-free training and resources to help African American and other underrepresented minority high school students obtain marketable skills and internships in the IT and Computer industries.

Colorado Springs Vikings Youth Football and Cheer: Colorado Springs Vikings Youth Football and Cheer is purchasing new equipment (helmets, shoulder pads, mouthguards) and football uniforms to enhance player safety and remove barriers to participation.

Crossroads Safehouse: Crossroads Safehouse's Youth Victim Services program provides crisis intervention, safety, personal advocacy, and educational services to children and teenagers who are primary and secondary victims of domestic violence, working to break the generational cycle of domestic violence.

Dakota Ridge High School: Dakota Ridge High School (JeffCo Public Schools) is building out its girls high school flag football program to promote physical fitness, build self-confidence, foster teamwork, develop leadership skills, offer college opportunities and increase female representation in football.

Denver Indian Center: The Denver Indian Center's Native Youth Wellness Program provides structure for American Indian Youth ages 12-18 to have a sense of belonging in a safe, culturally-responsive setting.

Denver Public Schools: Denver Public Schools is hosting non-contact football clinics and flag football programming for middle school students to foster a sense of belonging within the program, connection to their feeder high school, opportunities for new friendships, physical activity and athletic skills development.

Denver South High School: Denver South High School (Denver Public Schools) is replacing its football program's sled dummy covers and pop-up tackling dummies.

Ednium: The Alumni Collective: Ednium: The Alumni Collective's Alumni Connect program connects Denver Public Schools Alumni to current high school students attending their alma maters for career pathway exploration support and mentorship.

Evergreen High School PTSA: Evergreen High School (Jefferson County Public Schools) is replacing its bleachers at the school's stadium with ADA-compliant bleachers and increased seating to host flag football and tackle football games.

Feel The Beat: Feel The Beat provides in-school and afterschool accessible and inclusive movement classes for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and/or living with a disability by utilizing a vibrotactile dance floor that converts sound waves into vibrations.

Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado: Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado's Student & Family Services Program (SFSP) supports teen parents in building stability through housing, clinical services and workforce development so they can focus on education and post-secondary plans.

Food For Hope: Food for Hope's in-school food bank at Pinnacle Charter School provides students and their parents the ability to have autonomy to select fresh and shelf-stable food each week, while removing the barrier of transportation with regards to food access.

Full Circle Restorative Justice: Full Circle Restorative Justice is expanding its Restorative Schools program to Fremont County to work with students and schools to prevent conflict, suspensions, expulsions, and truancy by facilitating restorative practices.

Fully Liberated Youth: Fully Liberated Youth partners with schools to provide robust programming that offers mentorship, therapy and alternatives to exclusionary discipline to youth facing significant barriers to educational success.

Generation Schools Network: Generation Schools Network's Youth Navigators support justice-engaged youth as they navigate the complex legal and educational systems with the goal of getting them re-enrolled in school and working towards future pathways.

Girls On The Run Of The Rockies: Girls On The Run Of The Rockies is an afterschool program that addresses physical, emotional, and social development during a critical developmental time and uses physical activity and research-based lessons to teach skills to prevent at-risk behaviors and emphasize the potential of every girl.

Girls Scouts of Colorado: Girl Scouts of Colorado's girl-led, experiential leadership development program is focused on STEM, outdoor adventure and skills, life skills, and entrepreneurship and builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Global Leaders: Global Leaders' Work and Earn program empowers students to make positive change through developing a legacy project of their own, assisting with grant writing, curriculum writing and organizational tasks.

Greater Denver Cares: Greater Denver Cares' Baldwin Project is designed to empower early learners to cultivate a deep appreciation for literacy by providing free, culturally relevant books authored by BIPOC writers in schools, home libraries, and through bi-monthly book mailings.

GRID Alternatives – Colorado: GRID Alternatives' Solar Futures Youth Education program is a hands-on, experiential solar and clean energy technology curriculum for K-10 students, helping to spark an early interest in the minds of tomorrow's leaders about career pathways in the clean energy industry.

Growing Gardens of Boulder County: Growing Gardens of Boulder County provides youth with nutrition and farm education field trips to empower them with an understanding of connections between healthy eating, farming, and their health.

Heritage High School: Heritage High School (Littleton Public Schools) is launching a girls flag football team in conjunction with CHSAA's sanctioning of girls high school flag football.

Highlands Ranch Touchdown Club: The Highlands Ranch Touchdown Club is purchasing new helmets to replace expired and outdated helmets for Highlands Ranch High School's (Douglas County School District) football program.

HighView: The HighView Student Accelerator program is a comprehensive initiative that provides motivated high school students from under-resourced communities with the social capital, mentorship, and career readiness training needed to achieve economic mobility.

Horizons Colorado: Horizons Colorado's Mentorship program provides a year-round one-on-one enrichment experience for students (grades 9-12) from under-resourced schools, resulting in all students graduating high school and having a post-graduation plan of post-secondary education, certification programs, apprenticeships, or going straight into the workforce.

I Have A Dream Foundation of Boulder County: I Have A Dream Foundation of Boulder County's Dreamer Scholars program is a comprehensive after-school program that addresses academic needs, promotes social justice, and cultivates leadership skills to empower students from elementary through high school.

Impact on Education: Impact on Education is expanding their school-based Wellness Centers which provide welcoming and calming spaces staffed by a full-time mental health professional for Boulder Valley School District students.

Jeffco Schools Foundation: Jeffco Schools Foundation Career Hubs are physical locations inside Jeffco High Schools dedicated providing career readiness learning, work-based learning opportunities and job shadow, internship, and apprenticeship programs.

Kadet Football Booster Club: The Kadet Football Booster Club is purchasing new helmets to replace expired and outdated helmets for Air Academy High School's (Academy School District 20) football program.

KidsPak: KidsPak meets the needs of food-insecure youth through weekend food bags, high school food pantries, and summer food access.

Korey Wise Innocence Project at the University of Colorado Law School: The Korey Wise Innocence Project provides a mentorship program for law and undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in a career in criminal defense or public interest law.

Pikes Peak Panthers Football & Cheer: Pikes Peak Panthers Football & Cheer is a youth football program affiliated with USA Football that is working to remove barriers to participation for youth in Colorado Springs.

PlatteForum: PlatteForum's ArtLab program is a year-round, paid internship that pairs under-resourced youth with experienced professional artists to work on real world projects that develop technical, social/emotional, creative, professional, and academic skills.

Riverside Education Centers: Riverside Education Centers provides afterschool programming (academic support, college and career readiness, transitions support, lifeskills training, youth leadership councils, and STEM enrichment) for K-12 to improve academic achievement and foster positive social and emotional development in a safe and supportive environment.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace: Sleep in Heavenly Peace believes all children deserve a safe, comfortable place to lay their heads and provides fully furnished beds and new bedding to children ages 3-17 who do not have a bed.

Southern Colorado Community Action Agency: Southern Colorado Community Action Agency's National Indian Youth Leadership Program provides culturally relevant programming that promotes positive youth development, builds resilience, and empowers Native American youth to become leaders in their communities while addressing critical issues faced by Native American youth including high rates of substance abuse, suicide, crime, and violence.

Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley: Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley empowers young people to thrive through risk prevention and crisis intervention services, including free therapy sessions and access to meals and bus passes.

TEENS, Inc.: TEENS, Inc.'s TeamWorks employment program is an educational outdoor work experience for diverse youth ages 16-20 to engage in environmental and conservation career exploration, training, and on-the-job paid experience.

TGTHR: TGTHR supports youth ages 12-24 experiencing homelessness with overnight shelter, wraparound services and access to basic needs including food, showers, laundry services, clean clothes, and access to medical care.

The Buddy Program: The Buddy Program matches adult volunteers with youth in one-to-one mentoring relationships and provides youth with case management, extracurricular activity scholarships, funds for therapeutic counseling, and referrals to other agencies.

The Center on Colfax: The Center On Colfax's Rainbow Alley provides a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth ages 10-17 to connect with peers, receive support from caring adults, participate in activities, gain leadership skills, and get referrals to helpful resources.

The Classical Academy: The Classical Academy (Academy School District 20) is launching a girls flag football team in conjunction with CHSAA's sanctioning of girls high school flag football.

The Family Resource Center: The Family Resource Center's Game Plan for Success Youth Program fills out-of-school time gaps for youth with educational and recreational programming to support holistic youth development.

The Matthews House: The Matthews House offers a Learning Hub program at two high schools in the Poudre School District crafting strategies and approaches to support students who are not on track to graduate from high school.

Vista Peak Prep: Vista Peak Prep is a Title I school in the Aurora Public School Districts that needs new helmets to ensure the proper safety for high school football players.

Vista Ridge High School: Vista Ridge High School (District 49, Colorado Springs) is building out its girls high school flag football program to provide more opportunities for girls to participate in football.

YESS Institute: The YESS Institute's dropout prevention program targets underestimated students who are high risk for dropping out, suspension, or expulsion and builds positive school cultures in which students receive tools and mentorship to achieve equitable academic and social growth.

Young African Americans for Social and Political Activism: YAASPA's Y Incubator program support minority youth ages 16-24 with access to paid training and work-based learning opportunities and industry partnerships with the goal of economic advancement without financial hardship.

Young People in Recovery: Young People in Recovery provides services for youth in recovery from substance use disorders and is focused on ensuring Spanish-speaking youth are aware of and can access culturally and linguistically appropriate mental and behavioral health services.

Youth Employment Academy: Youth Employment Academy empowers youth to reach their greatest potential through career pathways programming focused on earning industry-specific certificates, receiving paid hands-on job training, and gaining employment or attending post-secondary education.