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Caring for Denver Foundation helping maternal programs
Maternal mental health is a critical issue for birthers worldwide, yet many individuals face barriers to accessing care and further face stigma and shame. In Denver, BIPOC communities, in particular, frequently lack access to culturally responsive services to meet...
Caring for Denver Foundation grants $1.7 million to local organizations that support BIPOC maternal mental health
With Mental Health Awareness Month and Mother’s Day co-occurring in May, the topic of maternal mental health is top of mind. Maternal mental health refers to the health of the birther during pregnancy and up to two years after giving birth. During this time, pregnant...
Bold Journey: Meet Lorez Meinhold
Bold Journey July 2, 2024 We recently connected with Lorez Meinhold and have shared our conversation below. Lorez, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is...
Denver, CO: Community Response Model
This case study is part of the Reimagining Public Safety Impact Updates Resource, which highlights successful programs in cities, towns and villages across the country. View the Reimagining Public Safety Initiative to learn more about NLC’s work in...
Denver Foundation helping groups working on LGBTQ mental health
The LGBTQ+ community experiences higher rates of mental health challenges and suicide rates, barriers to accessing affirming healthcare, stigma, and many other disparities. At Caring for Denver Foundation, we are committed to addressing these disparities and improving...
Transforming Pain into Purpose: A Father’s Mental Health Journey
Fathers embody a profound commitment, and with that also comes a whole human being. In the forthcoming narrative, I aim to share my evolving journey through the realms of mental health and fatherhood. Ultimately, this transcends the personal and dives into a...
Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month: Highlighting Denver Resources
Motherhood embodies a strength that is unparalleled. It's the resilience found in a tired smile after a sleepless night, the determination to provide and protect, and the love that knows no bounds. Motherhood often finds itself at the intersection of selflessness and...
Step Denver helps support Coloradans’ alcohol-related treatment with new funding; “My life depends on my recovery”
By Mekialaya White CBS News Colorado The Caring for Denver Foundation is helping reshape alcohol-related treatment with an investment of more than $3.2 million across six groups here in Colorado. "We live in a society that says, 'Pull yourself up by your...
May 2024:: Queering Mental Health
Our Executive Director, Lorez Meinhold, and Caring for Denver Foundation were recently spotlighted in Out Front Magazine's May edition, titled "Queering Mental Health." The true emphasis of Caring for Denver is its community impact and telling the stories of our...
Lorez Meinhold recognized as 2024 Colorado Titan 100
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2024 Titan CEO and headline sponsor Wipfli LLP recently announced Lorez Meinhold, Executive Director of Caring for Denver Foundation, as a 2024 Colorado Titan 100. The Titan 100 program recognizes Colorado’s Top 100 CEOs...
Denver hasn’t spent all of its homelessness budget for last year — but here’s how it plans to spend that and more
Councilmembers had questions about spending and results for the homelessness initiative now known as All In Mile High Denverite Officials “close” an encampment on Arkins Court, by the South Platte River. Dec. 31, 2023.Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite A city council committee...
More Meaningful and Balanced Data Practices
TRENDS IN NONPROFIT DATA + EVALUATION ResultsLab The burden of data collection and right-fit data collection methods have been long-standing data and evaluation challenges in the nonprofit sector. Historically, nonprofit leaders have found themselves navigating a...
Caring for Denver Foundation Invests Over $12.1 Million in Youth Mental Health and Substance Misuse Care Initiatives
News Release [April 1, 2024 – Denver, Colo.]: Caring for Denver Foundation is proud to announce its latest round of grant funding, totaling more than $12.1 million, dedicated to improving youth mental health and substance misuse care. These grants reflect Caring for...
Meet Lorez Meinhold | Executive Director, Caring for Denver Foundation
ShoutoutColorado We had the good fortune of connecting with Lorez Meinhold and we’ve shared our conversation below. Hi Lorez, what do you attribute your success to? The most important factor behind our success and work at Caring for Denver is how we show up in...
Building and Sustaining Peer Support in Denver: Key Concerns, Supports, and Insights
The positive impact of peer support — having someone with lived experience trained to support people with mental health and/or substance misuse challenges — has been widely researched and well documented. Shared experiences and understanding between individuals who...
These are the 2024 finalists for 9NEWS Leader of the Year
The 9NEWS Leader of the Year will be honored at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Leadership Foundation‘s Leading Colorado Luncheon. Credit: Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation Author: KUSA Staff Published: 2:16 PM MST January 24, 2024...
Mental Health help available by text, chat & WhatsApp
Denver7 Click here to learn more about how Caring for Denver Foundation and Crisis Text Line are working together to provide free, 24/7 mental health support to Denver youth.
‘The language of teenagers’: New grant brings Crisis Text Line to Denver and its schools
Chalkbeat Colorado By Melanie Asmar In the midst of what experts say is a youth mental health emergency, Denver has a new response: a text line that lets teenagers seek help in a way that’s comfortable for them. Teens — or anyone who’s struggling with stress,...
Crisis Text Line Will Help Denver Schools Deal With “Fire Hydrant of Mental Health Needs”
Westword By Catie Cheshire Abraham, a junior at Denver's Manual High School, tries to juggle getting good grades, participating in extracurricular activities and prepping himself for getting into a good college. That juggling act can get tough. “My friends are...
Denver considering spending $6M to have mental health clinicians go out with police
Black Chronicle News Service (The Center Square) – The city of Denver has proposed a $6 million resolution to continue partnering with the nonprofit WellPower to have mental health clinicians go out with police on calls involving individuals with suspected mental...
Denver teens get free 24/7 mental health support with a text
CBS Colorado https://youtu.be/2lf-3YPRivw?si=pJygY8auwCzn31tg BY Tori Mason Adults know the stress that comes with holiday cheer. Across the country, teens are also feeling a mental health slump as they step away for Christmas break. Students in Denver have a new...
Building and Sustaining Denver’s Peer Support Workforce
https://youtu.be/INybm26f7JU The positive impact of having someone with lived experience who is trained to support people with mental health conditions and substance misuse has been widely researched and well-documented. Yet the peer support workforce is an emerging...
New crisis text line ‘741741’ launches in Denver
9 News By Jaleesa Irizarry According to the state health department, suicide is a leading cause of death for Colorado's young adults. The crisis text line is open 24/7 and it's anonymous. Young adults in Denver have a new way to connect to help during a mental health...
Denver schools are investing in teaching techniques like finger breathing. Here’s what that means.
Chalkbeat Colorado By Melanie Asmar Wednesday was a big day in Inmaculada Martín Hernández’s class. The students in her college-level conversational Spanish class at Denver’s North High School were conducting a Model United Nations presentation, and their teacher...
Caring for Denver Foundation Funds Crisis Text Line to Expand Free, 24/7 Mental Health Support for Youth
DENVER (December 5, 2023) - Caring for Denver Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to provide financial support for programs and services that address Denver’s mental health and substance misuse needs, has awarded a grant to Crisis Text Line to spread mental...
Caring for Denver Foundation announced more than $11.4 million in funding to community-based nonprofits.
News Release [December 4, 2023 – Denver, Colo.]: Caring for Denver Foundation announced more than $11.4 million in funding to community-based nonprofits that will fill gaps in mental health and substance misuse care, especially surrounding the need for a more...
Elevated Denver
https://open.spotify.com/episode/21chxbd3SsvXifbTIFnn8o?si=0TtprTnJS5yWHVQXwKOnvw In this episode, the last of the season, Elevated Denver digs into the housing and homelessness system, as well as the other systems that intersect homelessness. They also dive into the...
What More Can We Do for Veterans?
Tim Cortez, Caring for Denver Foundation Program Officer I am one of the lucky ones. Besides my deployment to Afghanistan being a major disruption in my life and highly stressful, I returned largely unscathed. Moments where I could reflect and decompress through...
Exploring Life & Business with Lorez Meinhold of Caring for Denver Foundation
Voyage Denver Today we’d like to introduce you to Lorez Meinhold. Hi Lorez, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.I have always been passionate about making an impact. I believe that we all have the potential to make a...
Colorado parents support new Denver Public Schools program, but want violence prevention programs.
By Jasmine Arenas CBS Colorado Denver Public Schools has teamed up with other organizations to try to provide more services for students and DPS schools in crisis response. A grant funded through Caring For Denver will provide funding to create a crisis response...
Denver Health gets $1.7M infusion to help with youth in crisis.
By Analisa Romano Denver Business Journal The grant will center on trauma-based services and substance abuse. Denver Health CEO Donna Lynne hasn't been shy about pinpointing where rising need in the city is stressing the health organization's resources. In...
A new team will help DPS students cope with trauma.
By Kevin Beaty Denverite The flexible TRUST crew will bounce between emergencies to make sure kids have the resources they need to bounce back. When a crowd of shaken and crying students poured out of East High School last March, there weren’t many professionals...
Caring for Denver Foundation awards largest youth-focused individual grant to provide crisis response resources for Denver students.
Denver Health, Caring for Denver Foundation and Denver Public Schools announce grant to provide crisis response resources and expand substance use treatment for students. Schools will benefit from further crisis response and stabilization resources, more coordinated...
Rocky Mountain PBS presents STAR Program
Colorado legislature is working to revolutionize the way Colorado handles mental health and wellness crisis calls by introducing the S.T.A.R van program, a trained response unit of crisis intervention staff. Click here to watch STAR Program by Rocky Mountain PBS.
September is National Recovery Month
Recovery is possible. And, it's personal. What works for one person may not work for another. What gives one person strength may send another into a deeper spiral. Every story of recovery is as unique as the person undertaking the journey. The what, the when, the...
Denver Healing Generations continues mission to empower communities of color
By Mekialaya White CBS Colorado https://www.youtube.com/embed/MzY989VkQBg With each 12-week course offered at Denver Healing Generations, Jojo Padilla and John Perez are working to build a generation of successful young men and women. "The work we do is rooted in...
Dot Org: Caring for Denver and Denver STAR program
KGNU August 25, 2023 Caring for Denver was created from a Denver Ballot initiative to help direct funding toward addressing mental health and substance misuse needs in Denver.With this enduring investment, Caring for Denver works with Community organizations and...
Youth are worth the investment: Mental health programming for Denver students
Jacquie Esquibel Program Officer As school is back in session for our Denver youth, I reminisce about my two kiddos and my 20 years in the education system as a Guardian Ad Litem that advocated for youth involved with the legal system, often as a result of neglect, in...
Drug treatment center gets $1.4M to help bridge gap to sober housing
Aurora Sentinel by Max Levy August 11, 2023 A diversion program run by Aurora-based Hazelbrook Community Center helping criminal defendants achieve sobriety and enter sober living has been tabbed to receive $1.38 million in Denver sales tax dollars, supporting...
Caring 4 Denver gives $13M to 22 nonprofits
https://youtu.be/YM0Mak1u4MA?si=n06vEKa-uyh5Al_K Denver7 Caring for Denver Foundation announced it has awarded $13 million in grants to 22 community-based organizations that provide alternatives to jail solutions for the community. "Recovery is hard, and it's really...
Caring for Denver Foundation Awards $13 Million to Denver Nonprofits To Provide Alternatives to Jail
Grants will go to 22 organizations that prevent people with substance misuse and mental health conditions from unnecessarily interacting with the criminal legal system DENVER - July 25, 2023 - PRLog -- Caring for Denver Foundation today announced it has awarded $13...
University of Denver’s GSPP Launching Family Support Clinic
University of Denver July 11, 2023 A generous grant from the Caring for Denver Foundation has enabled the Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) at the University of Denver’s Trauma and Disaster Recovery Clinic (TDRC) to launch a new...
How Emergent Learning Hones Grantmaking and Deepens Partnerships
By Haley Sammen Peak Grantmaking March 17, 2023 At the core of everything we do is the belief that we can do better—both with how we support people with mental health and substance misuse challenges in our community, and how philanthropy operates. Since we opened our...
Tips from The Colorado Chapter of Postpartum Support International
https://youtu.be/kCF4Yz1tHM0 CBS Colorado June 20, 2023 CBS Colorado Reporter: Well too often, new moms struggle with all the feelings, and they sometimes suffer from some of those feelings in silence. Joining us now to talk more about this is Dr. Jennifer Adams and...
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy opening decompression room
Denver 7 May 25, 2023 (Description Text below from DPS Public Schools) DENVER – We could all use a place to go when we just need a minute. A way to let off steam or find inspiration. “It’s super rad,” said 11th grader, Piper Morian, who helped design the space. “I...
May is Mental Health Month: We’re sharing stories of hope and healing
How Our City is Coming Together to Take Action Your well-being matters. This is the message Denver voters expressed when we came together to establish the Caring for Denver Foundation. In celebration of National Mental Health Month, we’ll share stories of hope...
Caring 4 Denver has given out more than $100Million
KMGH - Denver Scripps Mon, April 24, 2023 at 7:12 AM MDT A foundation created by voters has now given away more than $100 million dollars.
Denver Dream Center offers second chance
"It's helped me figure out who I am": Denver Dream Center offers second chance with mental health and substance abuse resources BY MEKIALAYA WHITE https://youtu.be/wVJZvJoXZA8 APRIL 20, 2023 / 7:23 PM / CBS COLORADO On Thursday morning, a group of men walked down...
Stories on Screen – May 17
Healing and recovery happen when people have support that reflects and affirms their cultures, identities, and values. Meet four Caring for Denver grantee organizations that embody this truth, and help us celebrate their stories through short films...
Caring For Denver Foundation Reaches $100 Million Milestone in Grants Awarded to Denver Nonprofits
More than 200 mental health and substance misuse organizations have received funding during the foundation's first three years of grant-making DENVER, Colo., April 6, 2023 - Caring for Denver Foundation today announced it has awarded more than $109 million in...