Awarded Grants

$275,000 over 2 years for the Summit Program to serve students in recovery from addiction by providing a strong pro-social peer community, specialized recovery supports, and an engaging educational environment. This grant will expand this Denver, including those with engagement in the legal system. The initial outcomes for this recovery program show great success in providing the environment and support teenagers need to remain clean and sober, and progress towards high school graduation.

$366,168 over 3 years to continue and enhance this organization's ability to provide a strong pro-social peer community, specialized recovery supports, and an engaging educational environment to hundreds of Denver teens.

$100,230 over 1 years for an after-school and weekend recovery program designed to serve the most at-risk students at 5280 High School and the surrounding area. It will provide the support youth need to be able to get traction from old habits and establish new patterns of living and new peer groups.

$189,052 over 1 years to support students ages 15-21 in recovery by providing afterschool recovery supports through the Altitude Youth Recovery Program and in-school mental health supports.

$117,000 over 3 years to reduce social isolation and address mental health challenges for older adults in Denver using its trusted neighbors volunteer model.

$347,442 over 2 years to provide support to BIPOC youth with disabilities through trauma-informed mentoring and mental health care.

$344,398 over 2 years to provide mental health support for bereaved moms of color, educate communities of color on effective ways to cope with grief and mourning, and destigmatize mental health.

$108,914 over 3 years for Fostering Healthy Futures for pre-teens, a mentoring and skills training program for 9-to-11-year-old youth who have been placed out of the home due to child welfare involvement. This evidence-based program addresses the social emotional and coping needs of children.

$237,416 over 3 years for Fostering Healthy Futures, an evidence-based program promoting positive youth development for children with child welfare involvement through individualized mentorship and accessible skills training.

$30,000 over 0.5 years in recognition that the disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are in part the result of a larger experience of trauma faced by the Black community, funds were provided to address mental health, substance misuse, and trauma needs in the Black community in Denver.