Awarded Grants

$1,219,841 over 3 years to expand the partnership with Denver specialty courts to support brain injury survivors. This organization will provide brain injury screenings, psychoeducation courses, specialized addiction counseling, and re-entry support.

$194,380 over 2 years to serve formerly incarcerated or recovering individuals in the Denver area through direct support utilizing trained health professional(s), resource navigation, and combined informational workshops to further bridge the barriers within the re-entry/recovery community.

$201,617 over 1 years for creative writing and storytelling workshops to address negative personal narratives and improve the mental health and substance misuse struggles faced by people at risk of, currently involved in, and exiting the jail system.

$5,250 over 1 years to teach youth detention-specific, trauma-informed musical exercises proven to help regulate attention and emotional states, while expressing themselves and collaborating, and developing critical social-emotional skills necessary for overcoming trauma and actualizing positive futures.

$204,700 over 2 years to provide safe spaces for BIPOC youth to work through and heal from the various traumas they have experienced and increase their resilience and coping skills to either stay out of and/or successfully navigate juvenile criminal system when they are already involved.

$883,750 over 3 years to provide system-involved young people throughout the City and County of Denver with the mental health, healing-centered, and substance-use supports and services they need to re-enter the community and/or prevent further incarceration.

$1,389,761 over 1 years for the Transitional Safety Zone Program, a recovery housing peer support model bridging people from early sobriety to sober living environments with a focus on criminal legal system diversion.

$349,326 over 1 years for the SAFER program, which disentangles homeless, high-risk of or justice-involved individuals, with unmet mental health/co-occurring disorders from the criminal legal system by providing onsite clinical and case management services, peer support, and adjunct therapies.

$178,001 over 2 years to deepen the partnership with Third Way Center through restorative theatre programming that uses interactive theatre to build trust and social-emotional skills, and address trauma with young people transitioning out of incarceration, foster care, and/or homelessness.

$254,258 over 2 years to address issues of mental health and recidivism by implementing a methodology based on the principle "the value of the human person." Funding will be utilized to adapt and implement a transformative model that is proven to enhance mental well-being and reduce recidivism.