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Caring for Denver Receives Community Builder Award

News Release [September 17, 2022 – Denver, Colo.]: Caring for Denver Foundation has received the Community Builder Award from Servicios de la Raza, an honor recognizing individuals and organizations who have provided incredible benefits to the Indigenous and...

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Take our 2022 Community Check In Survey!

Caring for Denver Foundation was founded and funded with overwhelming voter support to address Denver’s mental health and substance misuse needs. Guided by community input, the organization has funded more than $82.2 million in the areas of alternatives to jail, care...

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Caring for Denver Invests $12.1M in Alternatives to Jail Grant

Out Front Magazine (OFM) AUGUST 9, 2022 Photo courtesy of Caring for Denver on Facebook A previous poll by The Colorado Health Foundation found that many people consider mental health and substance use serious problems for Coloradans. This is especially true for BIPOC...

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Study: Denver’s STAR program reduced crime, costs

Fox 31 by: Alex Rose Posted: Jun 8, 2022 / 03:03 PM MDT Updated: Jun 9, 2022 / 12:56 PM MDT DENVER (KDVR) — Denver’s Support Team Assistance Response (STAR) program has been operating in the Mile High City now for two years. A new study shows how...

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Denver, Aurora boost alternative police response programs

Newsbreak Denver, CO David Heitz By David Heitz / NewsBreak Denver (Denver, Colo.) Aurora and Denver both agreed Monday to provide more money for alternative police response teams. At their respective City Council meetings, Aurora agreed to spend $230,000 on salaries...

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PlatteForum’s Big Year

Westword EMILY FERGUSON MAY 17, 2022  PlatteForum staffers (from left, back row): Michael Gadlin, Sigri Strand, Zaia Sever, Kendall Kultgen, Axel Leonhardt. Front row: Destany Rodriguez, Kevin Sandoval-Torres. Sigri Strand PlatteForum will celebrate its twentieth...

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PlatteForum Opens New Space, New Exhibit

YourHub – Denver Post Posted by ddascalos on May 3, 2022  Resident Artist, Annette Isham, To Open New Exhibit in New Space May 27, 2022. PlatteForum just announced they opened a new gallery and studio space at 3575 Ringsby Ct. #103 Denver, CO 80216 and...

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DPS awarded more than $500k for mental health services

Colorado Politics DAVID MULLEN david.mullen@gazette.com Isabelle Espana, front, gets help from then-Denver Public Schools Superintendent Susana Cordova in August as the young girl works on a laptop in a classroom in Newlon Elementary School. The Associated Press...

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Sending Mental Health Pros, Not Police

Front Porch (Northeast Denver) April 1, 2022 / Tracy Wolfer Osborne /  Announcements, Community Issues, Denver News, Health & Wellness / Mamie Tissue, a clinician with the Mental Health Center of Denver, and her partner, Seth Humphreys, a Denver Health Paramedic...

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Envision:You Receives New Grant to Fund Training Program

Out Front Magazine Envision:You Receives New Grant to Fund Training Program DECEMBER 10, 2021 Envision:You will surely have all the more momentum to help members of Colorado’s LGBTQ community; The Caring for Denver Foundation awarded the initiative a grant to...

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Caring for Denver: Widespread, Community-Informed Support

OUT FRONT Magazine By Keegan Williams As the Denver community pushes forward in this new stage of the pandemic, the need for community services and resources is more dire than ever. Representative Leslie Herod saw this need to do better for our local communities,...

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Denver’s pivot from police is gaining popularity nationwide

Axios Markets via Yahoo News By Alayna Alvarez What started as a pilot program to reimagine policing primarily in downtown Denver is now expanding citywide and piquing interest across the country. Driving the news: The City Council this week voted to boost the...

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Alternatives to Calling the Denver Police Department

Denver’s STAR Program is a success. So much so that it’s expanding this year. Here are some more local resources to phone if you don’t want to call the police. 5280 by: Celeste Benzschawel Denver’s Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) program has responded...

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