Grants Awarded to Colorado Organizations
Serving Youth
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, DENVER –
Governor Bill Owens Thursday joined the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment in
announcing that 50 grants totaling more than $2.3
million have been awarded to 72 local, youth-serving
organizations offering programs in 37 counties
throughout Colorado. The state funds, which are
2005-2006 general funds allocated with spending
authority through June 2007, were issued under the Tony
Grampsas Youth Services Program based at the Department
of Public Health and Environment.
The grants support programs that focus on
early childhood programs and services, youth mentoring,
student dropout prevention, and youth crime and violence
prevention.
Grant recipients, by county, for 2007 include:
Alamosa: serving Alamosa, Costilla and Rio
Grande counties, San Luis Valley Comprehensive Community
Mental Health Center, $29,671
The goal of the program is to reduce
incidences of youth crime, violence and substance abuse by
introducing and enhancing protective factors of spending
quality time with children. Volunteers interact regularly with
youths in a one-to-one relationship using an evidenced-based
mentoring model. The program targets predominately rural
Hispanic youths ages 10-16 located in the San Luis Valley of
southern Colorado. Contact: Clarissa Woodworth, 719-587-6967.
Aurora: serving Adams, Arapahoe and Denver
counties, Bennie E. Goodwin After School Academic Program,
$59,540
The Bennie E. Goodwin After School Academic
Program strives to provide educational assistance to
multicultural youth through educational programs, referral
services and partnerships with other community-based
organizations. This program is dedicated to teaching and
building foundational skills to at-risk students in sixth
through tenth grade who are performing a minimum of one year
below grade level in either reading or math. Students receive
intensive skill-building instruction during three nine-week
terms and one three-week summer term at the After School
Academic Program Center, as well as through the services
launched at a collaborative site, Bridges of Silence. Contact:
Nakashia Hubbard, 303-363-9610.
Aurora: serving Arapahoe County and 24
additional counties: Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc., $46,314
Excelsior Youth Center is the largest
residential treatment center in Colorado for high-risk girls
ages 11 to 18. The center provides a structured educational
and therapeutic environment for low-income, at-risk girls who
have experienced abuse, academic failures and truancy and have
failed in other placements. More than 80 percent successfully
complete Excelsior’s phased program and transition back to
their communities. Excelsior’s Transitional Services Unit, in
conjunction with its ongoing Aftercare Program, aims to reduce
the incidence of the criminal and violent behavior for
adolescent girls through its Transitional Readiness Services
Program. Contact: Carol Gianfrancisco, 303-693-1550.
Arvada: serving Jefferson County, PeaceJam
Foundation, $39,150
The PeaceJam After-School Program provides an
innovative, after-school experience for students at Foster,
Russell and Lawrence Elementary Schools and Arvada Middle
School--all low-performing schools in the Arvada High School
area. The program addresses the needs of these youths and
their families by engaging students in a quality after-school
program incorporating learning through acts of service,
literacy and character education through the study and
celebration of the 14 Nobel Peace Laureates that are featured
in the Peace Jam Juniors Curriculum. The aim of this program
is to enhance students’ school and community engagement,
including higher scores on state tests and decreased
discipline problems. Contact: Kate Cumbo, 303-455-2099.
Boulder: Boulder and Broomfield counties,
Boulder Integrated Managed Partnership for Adolescent and
Child Treatment (IMPACT) of the Mental Health Center, $23,303
The program comprises public
adolescent-serving agencies including public health,
probation, community justice services, social services, youth
corrections, district attorneys and two school districts.
Representatives from these agencies developed the program,
Opportunities, to meet the needs of diversion, probation,
pre-sentenced adolescent females and those involved with
dependency and neglect petitions, ages 12-17. These services
reduce the likelihood of female youths entering more intensive
justice system programs and reduce incidences of crime and
violence in Boulder County. Contact: Ann Sullivan,
303-441-1511.
Boulder: Boulder County, Boulder
Preparatory High School, $49,780
Boulder Preparatory High School serves at-risk
youths ages 14-20 and provides a small, safe, academic setting
with caring adults to help transform Youth-At-Risk into
college-bound Youth-Of Promise. The intervention program and
life skills curriculum address youth risk and protective
factors to help prevent dropout, increase attendance, improve
academic performance and reduce delinquency. Contact: Lili
Adeli, 720-480-3959.
Canon City: serving Fremont County,
Developmental Opportunities, Inc., Starpoint, $39,580
The First Steps Parents As Teachers Program,
operated by Starpoint, provides prevention and early
intervention services to Fremont County families with children
ages prenatal to 6 years. Staff certified in the program’s
curriculum provides specially-designed services to pregnant
and parenting teens through personal visits in the home;
education and support groups in the schools and at the Family
Center; play groups; developmental screenings, including
vision and hearing; and linkage to formal and informal
supports that are designed to increase the likelihood that
babies have healthy beginnings and continuous, responsive and
caring relationships. Contact: Judy Teeter, 719-269-1523.
Colorado Springs: serving El Paso County,
Project Redirect, El Paso County Department of Human Services,
$32,899
Project Redirect is a community collaboration
project designed to address the problems of serving
multisystem and multiproblem youths ages 11-18. The program’s
efforts focus on improving social interactions between youth
participants, their families and the community. The project
design incorporates the use of multiple nontraditional
activities to successfully engage adolescents and their
families with the community, resulting in improved academic
performance and success and reduction in police contact.
Contact: Julie Yoder, 719-444-5410.
Colorado Springs: serving El Paso and
Teller counties, Pikes Peak Family Connections, Inc., $209,175
The Family Empowerment Team is a partnership
of El Paso County human service agencies that provides
affordable, strength-based services to families with children
ages prenatal–18. The array of services offered include a
low-income child development center, teen and adult
empowerment, job training, grandparent support, in-home
visitors, crisis telephone line, counseling, advocacy, access
to other community resources, services in Spanish and a
respite childcare nursery for children ages 5 and under.
Contact: Rita Wiley, 719-442-6334.
Commerce City: serving Adams County, Adams
County Head Start, $45,415
Adams County Head Start administers the
Incredible Years Series in eight Head Start classrooms.
Incredible Years is designed to prevent or reduce aggressive
and oppositional behavior, thus reducing the chances of
developing later delinquent behavior, drug abuse and violence.
This program’s goal is to increase positive parenting
practices to help children ages 3-5 achieve age-appropriate
developmental milestones. Contact: Elizabeth Groginsky,
303-286-4102.
Denver: serving Adams County, Su Teatro
Inc., El Centro Su Teatro, $30,000
El Centro Su Teatro delivers an after-school
drop-out prevention program housed at Adams City High School,
emphasizing reading and writing, family engagement and
community service. The long-term goal of the program is to
reduce youth crime and violence. Contact: Tanya Mote,
303-296-0219.
Denver: serving Adams, Arapahoe and Denver
counties, Positive Connection, $34,550
The Positive Connection All-Girls Program
works with young women ages 9-18 throughout the Denver
metropolitan area who are either currently involved in the
justice system or have exhibited risk behaviors or warning
signs such as decreasing grades, poor attendance/truancy and
conflict resolution or behavior problems. Prevention,
Intervention and re-direction services such as classes on
anger management, life skills, employment readiness and
academic skill building are provided to combat the root causes
of youth crime. These programs aim to reduce involvement with
the juvenile justice system among participants and increase
self-efficacy and bonding with adults. Contact: Renee Perry,
303-321-2417.
Denver: serving Adams and Denver counties,
Project PAVE, $39,906
Project PAVE’s Bullying Prevention and
Intervention program has interventions at three levels:
schoolwide, group/classroom and individual. Project PAVE works
in conjunction with school staff to address the issues of
bullying in schools through the Olweus Bullying Prevention
Program, with the participation of all students. Students
identified as at risk for bullying or victimization, or who
already are identified as bullies or targets of bullying
receive additional group or individual interventions. Contact:
Myles Mendoza, 303-322-2382.
Denver: serving Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder,
Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties; Colorado
Coalition for the Homeless, $39,679
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless’s
Family Support Services Children’s Program provides early
intervention/prevention services to promote healthy physical,
emotional, educational and social growth of homeless children,
prenatal to 8 years of age, who are initially contacted
through the coalition’s Transitional Housing Program. The
coalition’s children’s program provides the opportunity for
homeless children and their families to build the resiliency
and competence necessary to minimize the effects of
homelessness. Contact: Kathy Gansemer, 303-285-5248.
Denver: serving Denver County, cityWILD,
$39,883
cityWILD provides year-round, tuition-free,
comprehensive experiential education programs for at-risk
youth in northeast Denver. Using the outdoors as a classroom
and laboratory for hands-on learning, cityWILD offers youth
development programs that provide young people with
challenging activities, opportunities for growth, healthy
lifestyles, peer bonding and supportive adults. cityWILD’s
Leadership Development Program, which includes an after school
component, weekend adventures and expeditions, and case
management services, provides youths with educational,
vocational, recreational and social opportunities that
incorporate service learning, academic assistance, workforce
readiness, drug and alcohol prevention and financial literacy
activities. Contact: Read McCulloch, 303-227-6862.
Denver: serving Denver County, Colorado
Association of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists,
$34,692
The Colorado Association of Black Professional
Engineers and Scientists is a nonprofit organization offering
engineering and math programs for African-Americans and other
underrepresented youths to encourage and assist them in the
pursuit and attainment of career choices in engineering and
applied science professions. Programs, including the JETS
engineering classes and Math Enrichment Program, provide
quality, content-rich experiences to reduce the incidences of
youth crime and violence by committing students to school and
forming positive relationships with adults. Contact: Francie
Miran, 303-329-3929.
Denver: serving Denver County, Colorado
Youth at Risk Inc., $45,000
Colorado Youth at Risk delivers the Steps
Ahead for Youth program to freshman students at George
Washington High School to reduce the dropout rate by providing
one-to-one mentors for each student for a year and a proven
dropout prevention curriculum. The curriculum includes a
five-day retreat, monthly community workshops and weekly
contact by a mentor. The goal is to improve academic
performance, increase school attendance and the number of
students remaining in school, and increase the number of
students advancing to the tenth grade. Contact: Patti Bennett,
303-623-9140.
Denver: serving Denver County: Escuela
Tlatelolco Centro de Estudios, $49,373
Escuela Tlatelolco’s dual language, Circulo
Montessori Program provides low-income, at-risk Latino
children ages 3-8 with high-quality preschool and elementary
educations. Services include a prepared learning environment
based on Montessori child development theories, English and
Spanish language instruction, extended hours of operation,
on-site health care, a bilingual family services worker and
support for parents including education on nonviolent
discipline and communication. This program’s goals are that
children attain developmentally appropriate milestones and
improve their literacy skills and that parents improve their
parenting and discipline skills. Contact: Nita J. Gonzales,
303-964-8993.
Denver: serving Denver County, Full Circle
Inter-Generational Project, Inc., $60,000
Full Circle Inter-Generational Project, Inc.
is a community-based prevention program that serves at-risk
youths and their parents living in northeast Denver and
Montbello. The Senior/Youth Partnership is a comprehensive
tobacco, alcohol and drug prevention program, focusing on
one-on-one, cultural and community bonding. The program
connects youths ages 6-18 with adult mentors ages 55 and older
to promote healthy lifestyles, values and lifelong learning.
Contact: Daphne Rice-Allen, 303-333-7595.
Denver: serving Denver County, Native
American Multi-Cultural Education School Inc. (NAMES), $25,000
The Native American Multi-Cultural Education
School, located in southwest Denver, provides activities and
tutoring to students ages 15 years and older. These programs
aim to increase overall academic performance and enable
students to attain a general education degree (GED). These
activities take place in an environment that respects and
celebrates the unique abilities that each student brings to
the school. Contact: Lynda Nuttall, 303-934-8086.
Denver: serving Denver County, SafeHouse
Denver, Inc., $38,239
SafeHouse Denver’s Children’s Program provides
safe shelter, individual and group counseling, advocacy and
comprehensive support services to children who are victims of
domestic violence. Operating year-round at both the emergency
shelter and nonresidential Counseling and Advocacy Center, the
program is designed to have a long-term impact on the
children’s health and behavior, preventing them from
recreating the abusive relationships they have witnessed in
the home. Because children who experience domestic violence
often grow up to become adult perpetrators and/or victims, the
SafeHouse Denver Children’s Program is designed to prevent its
clients from perpetuating the cycle of violence into the next
generation. Contact: Ellen Stein Wallace, 303-302-6120.
Denver: serving Denver, Adams, Arapahoe and
Jefferson counties: Parent Pathways, $40,000
Parent Pathways offers the Florence Crittenton
School Program, in partnership with Denver Public Schools, as
an alternative school helping pregnant and parenting teen
girls in Denver County. The aim of this program is to
encourage these girls to stay in school and graduate, gain job
and parenting skills needed to achieve self-sufficiency, avoid
youth crime and find alternatives to youth violence. The
school includes a licensed, on-site Infant/Toddler Learning
Center where trained professionals provide early childhood
education to the children of teen mothers attending the
school, preparing them for later learning. Contact: Sylvia
Milanese, 303-321-6363.
Denver: serving Denver, Adams, Arapahoe and
Jefferson counties, St. Anthony Health Foundation, Denver,
$31,100
This project supports expectant and parenting
teens and their children in metropolitan Denver through case
management, referrals and education. The goal is to assist
teens in establishing healthy families, decrease risk factors
and grow to be selfsufficient and competent adults. Culturally
sensitive, early childhood education is provided by bilingual
Spanish-speaking staff and mentors, in the accessible
environment of homes and school classrooms. The program helps
teens remain in school, avoid repeat pregnancies and become
effective parents and teachers to their children. Contact:
Ronnie Rosenbaum, 303-629-3747.
Denver: serving Denver, Adams, Arapahoe and
Jefferson counties, The Conflict Center (TCC), $27,850
The Conflict Center provides practical
conflict and anger-management skills to at-risk youths and
their parents in the Denver metropolitan area to prevent
physical, verbal and emotional violence. Services will promote
positive family to reduce family conflict and increase the
youths’ choices of healthy behaviors in order to reduce
delinquency. Classes are offered to youths age11-17 and their
parents who are ordered into classes through juvenile courts,
schools and diversion programs, as well as to families who
voluntarily seek services. Contact: Brenda Tracy,
303-433-4983.
Denver: serving Denver, Adams, Arapahoe,
Broomfield, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso and Jefferson counties,
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado, Inc., $84,681
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado’s
mission is to help low-income, at-risk youths ages 7-17 reach
their full potential through professionally supported
one-to-one volunteer mentoring relationships with a measurable
impact. These mentoring services in metropolitan Denver and
Pikes Peak area focus on positive youth development through
safe, quality relationships that lead to an improved sense of
self and community, greater awareness of the future and
improved school performance. Contact: Sandra Karr, 303-
433-6002.
Denver: serving Denver, Adams, Arapahoe,
Broomfield, Douglas and Jefferson counties, Rocky Mountain
Parents as Teachers, Denver, $20,000
Rocky Mountain Parents as Teachers is a
monthly home visitation program delivered by trained parent
educators to help children between the ages of birth and
school entry to develop optimally during this critical period
in their lives. Information on child development and ways
parents can interact with their child to support this
development is provided, along with strategies and handouts to
support parents in the challenges they face as their children
pass through various developmental stages. The goal of the
program is to create a safe, healthy and nurturing environment
so that children will enter school with readiness skills that
will enable them to succeed. Contact: Ricki Feist, 720-
482-8068.
Denver: serving Denver, Eagle, El Paso and
Morgan counties, Invest In Kids, $40,000
Invest In Kids utilizes the Incredible Years
Program to target low-income children ages 3-8, as well as
their parents and classroom teachers. The program aims to
prevent youth violence by improving children’s social
competence and reducing problem behaviors and encouraging
teachers to use more positive and proactive teaching
strategies. Contact: Rex John, 303-839-1808.
Dillon: serving Lake and Summit counties,
Summit County Child-Care
Resource and Referral Agency, Inc., Early
Childhood Options, $87,934
The High Country Early Childhood Intervention and Prevention
Project is designed to enable all infants and children in
Summit and Lake Counties to thrive by enhancing protective
factors that reduce their exposure to risk. The project is
collaborative and multitiered, designed to provide prevention
and intervention services to children in all their
environments: home, child care and community. The project
blends three programs and three agencies, The Families United
Program, which includes Warm Welcome and Parents as Teachers,
implemented by the Family and Intercultural Resource Center;
the Community Infant Program, implemented by Summit County
Government’s Department of Youth and Family Services; and the
Devereaux Early Childhood Assessment Program, implemented by
Early Childhood Options. Contact: Lucinda Burns, 970-513-1170.
Divide: serving Teller County, Community
Coalition for Families & Children, Community Partnership
Family Resource Center, $17,720
The Community Partnership Family Resource
Center connects Teller County residents with resources that
help them recognize their strengths and use those strengths to
build healthy, functional families. The Incredible Years Basic
Parent Training Program works to increase positive parenting
practices. Contact: Sam Gould, 719-686-0705.
Durango: serving La Plata County, Durango
School District 9-R, $30,843
Durango School District 9-R’s Even Start
Family Literacy Program works to break the cycle of poverty
and illiteracy by providing quality, five-component family
literacy services to low-income, low-literacy families with
children ages birth to 7 years old. This year-round program
provides adult education, early childhood education, parenting
education and interactive literacy at the Adult Education
Center and preschool and elementary schools that the families’
children attend, as well as monthly home visitations. The
program’s goal is to increase positive parenting practices and
children’s development and educational levels. Contact: Libby
Culver, 970-247-5411.
Englewood: serving Arapahoe County,
Englewood Schools, $66,322
The Englewood School District, in partnership
with the Englewood Recreation Department and the Englewood
Cultural Arts Association, is providing comprehensive
after-school enrichment programs in Englewood elementary and
middle schools. These programs are designed to support
academic performance and give students the opportunity to
learn new skills, which will help increase their
self-confidence and self-esteem. Contact: Cathy Mandel,
303-806-7020.
Fairplay: serving Park County, Park County
School District RE-2, $37,740
South Park Parents as Teachers translates
scientific brain research into concrete strategies for
enhancing child development and parenting skills. The program
provides universal access to any family within the Park County
School District RE-2 boundary, children ages prenatal through
kindergarten entrance, with particular attention to families
with mental health issues. Through this program, children will
demonstrate increased progress toward achieving
age-appropriate developmental milestones as measured by the
Creative Curriculum’s Developmental Continuum. Contact: Carla
Scholl, 719-836-4416.
Frisco: serving Summit County, Summit
County Mentoring Partnership, Summit County Government Human
Services, $31,604
The Summit County Mentoring Partnership
addresses the issues of youth alcohol use and youth violence
through mentoring, targeting at-risk 6- to 18-year olds. The
program goals include matching youths with adult mentors;
following the eligibility criteria for mentoring programs; and
providing a variety of structured, drug-free activities,
including a community-based skateboard team and Healthy
Choices, a health education class for girls at Summit Middle
School. Expected outcomes for youths in the program are to
decrease alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and increase
bonding to school. Contact: Robin Albert, 970-668-4156.
Ft. Collins: serving Larimer County,
Larimer County Partners, Inc., Partners Mentoring Youth,
$39,500
The mission of Partners Mentoring Youth of
Larimer County is to create and support one-to-one mentoring
relationships between positive adult role models and youths,
ages 8-17 who are facing challenges in their personal, social
and academic lives. The focus is on prevention and providing
at-risk youths with the tools and assets that have been shown
to be critical in helping them develop into healthy,
well-adjusted adults and preventing or delaying the use of
violence, substance abuse and other negative behaviors.
Contact: Heather Fitch, 970-484-7123.
Georgetown: serving Clear Creek, Eagle,
Lake and Summit counties, Office of the District Attorney,
Fifth Judicial District, $40,000
The Juvenile Diversion Program serves all
eligible youths ages 10 to 18 years in Clear Creek, Summit,
Lake and Eagle Counties in an effort to reduce juvenile
criminal behavior. The program provides intervention to
first-time and some second-time offenders to help them make
constructive choices and work toward a constructive path while
avoiding a juvenile criminal record. Contact: Joseph W.
Flannigan, 303-569-2567.
Grand Junction: serving Mesa County, Mesa
County Health Department, $40,000
The Parenting Partnerships Program works with
low-income families from high-risk environments, with children
less than 6 months old. The goal of this program is to improve
child readiness for school by addressing parenting skills and
maternal education with existing tools proven to produce
results. Contact: Dianna Jagiello, 970- 248-6927.
Greeley: serving Weld County, United Way of
Weld County, $101,832
The Weld County Early Family Intervention
Collaboration provides parenting education and resources to
at-risk pregnant women and families with children from birth
to age 5 in Weld County. Home visitation services start with
prenatal case management followed by Bright Beginnings visits
that refer participants into intensive, home-based parenting
classes; Parents as Teachers; and/or Grow Great Mind Early
Learning Groups. Activities include resource/referral,
advocacy services and distribution of language development
literacy kits. Parents increase their chances of raising
children in a nurturing and developmentally supportive
environment, with the ultimate goal of preventing child abuse
and neglect and promoting school readiness. Contact: Sheila
Watson, 970-353-4300.
Holyoke: serving Phillips County, Phillips
County Family Education Services, Inc., $21,641
Phillips County Family Education Services,
Inc. serves Hispanic, limited English-speaking children and
their parents. The program strives to prepare children and
their families for the child’s entrance into public school. To
accomplish this goal, the program has implemented an early
childhood and family literacy program that focuses on teaching
English to the child and parent, resulting in children being
prepared to enter kindergarten and parents becoming involved
in their child’s education. Contact: Linda Plumb,
970-854-2595.
Lakewood: serving Jefferson, Adams,
Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Gilpin and
Park counties, State of Colorado dba Red Rocks Community
College, $51,826
The program seeks to assist families of
children with special needs in locating and maintaining
appropriate child-care placement. Services include
enhanced/brokered referrals to licensed child-care facilities,
on-site technical assistance to child-care programs and
mini-grants for accommodation. Contact: Patricia Bolton,
303-914-6527.
Littleton: serving Arapahoe, Adams,
Boulder, Denver, Douglas, El Paso and Jefferson counties:
Straight Ahead Colorado, $25,996
This program works to reduce recidivism among
youths ages 15-18 by matching adult volunteers with
incarcerated youths. These mentors provide support for young
offenders after their release and participate in life skill
workshops, focusing on the most common reasons that youths
fail upon release. Mentors and youths also participate in
community service projects and recreational activities
together. Contact: Connie Waller, 720-283-0808.
Longmont: Boulder, Larimer and Weld
counties, Alternatives for Youth, $40,000
Alternatives for Youth runs Clearview
Educational Center, a therapeutic and educational program for
youths, grades six through twelve, who have been expelled from
public school. Clearview's goal is to promote academic, social
and interpersonal growth, while instilling a sense of
belonging to one’s community. The program’s goal is to assist
students in developing a healthy self-concept and in believing
in their ability to succeed and ultimately completing high
school. Contact: Jami Revielle, 303-776-8184.
Montrose: serving Delta, Montrose and Ouray
counties, Passage Charter School, $10,225
Passage Charter School is a small high school
for pregnant and parenting teens in Montrose County. The
school offers the Nurturing Parent Program for Teen Parents as
part of the required coursework for students earning a diploma
from the school. The Nurturing Parent Program seeks to
increase students’ abilities to successfully parent their
children by reducing behaviors and attitudes associated with
child maltreatment. The program uses a wide range of
activities, including teaching about child development and
working with students to develop self-nurturing strategies.
Contact: Kate Arsenault, 970-249-8066.
Nederland: Boulder and Gilpin counties,
TEENS, Inc., $32,617
The program offers an alternative high school
and free after-school social, employment, educational and
therapeutic opportunities for youths ages 11-19 in the
Nederland mountain region. This program strives to develop
lasting relationships between local youths and adult role
models in a drug-free, community-based setting. The programs
empower youths by providing opportunities to develop life
skills, enhance self-esteem and self-worth and increase
community involvement. Contact: Stephen LeFaiver, 303-
258-3821.
Pagosa Springs: serving Archuleta County,
Archuleta County Education Center, $71,164
The project goal is to increase the academic
success of disadvantaged students, 5-13 years old, who reside
in Archuleta County and who are at risk of developing serious
anti-social behavior. This program extends their learning time
through an after-school tutoring and academic enrichment
program. Contact: Livia Cloman Lynch, 970-264-2835.
Pagosa Springs: serving Archuleta County,
Seeds of Learning, $35,510
The overall goal is to ensure the Seeds of
Learning Preschool Program continues to meet the “reasonably
similar” High/Scope Perry Program standard. Seeds will
continue to implement the Creative Curriculum model during the
2006-2007 program year. Continuing to implement this
curriculum also will provide opportunities for children,
families and staff members to learn from each other. In
addition to the training opportunities for families associated
with implementing the Creative Curriculum model, The program
provides additional parent training (Incredible Years), family
learning and social support activities. Contact: Lynne L.
Bridges, 970-264-5513.
Paradox: serving Montrose County, Paradox
Valley School, $31,591
Paradox Valley School’s program serves
students and families in the rural, remote Paradox Valley in
western Montrose County. The program’s goal is to improve the
lives of students and families by decreasing dysfunctional
attitudes and behavior and increasing assets through student
after-school programs, a student social and emotional
curriculum and a parent support/training group. Contact: Renee
Owen, 970- 859-7236.
Pueblo: serving Pueblo County, Catholic
Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo, Inc., $65,394
The Family Education and Empowerment Program
of the Catholic Charities, Diocese of Pueblo, Inc. is a
community project providing personalized family support
services through home visitation and group activities to
at-risk Head Start-eligible families in Pueblo County. The
program’s goal is to increase the number of at-risk children
who enter Head Start and kindergarten with increased school
readiness skills to reduce the potential exposure to negative
social outcomes in the child’s later years such as violent and
criminal behavior and substance abuse. The comprehensive
services include prenatal education and support, parent
education and modeling, child education and nurturance,
parental skill building, increased awareness and knowledge of
family health, peer support, social networking and increased
community support systems to help families transition from the
earliest years to Head Start and from Head Start to elementary
school. Contact: Ida Rhodes, 719-544-4233.
Steamboat Springs: serving Routt County,
Steamboat Springs Discovery Learning Center, Family
Development Center, $64,640
The project develops healthy social and
emotional skills in preschool and kindergarten- age children
to ensure they will be ready for school by improving their
resiliency through increased skills and behaviors in the area
of attachment, initiative and self-control. The Newborn
Network provides the information, support and encouragement to
increase parent knowledge of early childhood development and
improve parenting practices needed to help infants and
toddlers develop optimally during the crucial early years of
life. Contact: Sharon Butler, 970-879-0977.
Walsenburg: serving Huerfano County,
Huerfano County Youth Services, $37,553
Huerfano County Youth Services prepares young
people to meet the challenges of growing into adulthood.
Through a coordinated, progressive series of activities and
experiences that use positive, adult interaction, youths
become socially, morally, emotionally, physically and
cognitively competent young adults. These interventions reduce
the incidences of youth crime and violence and strengthen
families to prevent the occurrence or reoccurrence of child
abuse. Contact: Debbie Channel, 719-738-1573.
Yuma: serving Washington and Yuma counties,
Rural Communities Resource Center, $40,000
The goal of the program is to improve
community health and quality of life by increasing and
enhancing the capacity of families in the community by
providing parenting support; substance abuse prevention
education and information; quality after-school activities to
reduce the incidence of youth crime and violence; and
life-skills training for children, youths and
parents/caregivers. The program will provide parents with a
continuum of services that build supports, skills and access
to resources they need to understand and meet their children’s
emotional, physical and developmental needs and to protect
their children from harm. Contact: Patricia Brewster-Willeke
or Becky Meyer, 970-848-3867.
For more information, the public may call
303-692-2947.
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