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Where Else to Get Help

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• Affordable Housing
• Transitional Housing
• Colorado Public Housing Authorities
• Emergency Housing
• Maternity, Pregnancy and Single Mother Homes and Centers in Metro Denver

HOMELESSNESS/SELF-SUFFICIENCY

• Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
  Works collaboratively toward the prevention and elimination of homelessness through education, advocacy, and improved services for the homeless.
• Mercy Housing
• National Coalition for the Homeless
  Works to end homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing and technical assistance.
• Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Denver, Inc.
  Offers counseling, child care, homeless shelters, transitional housing, employment resources, adoption, foster care, neighborhood centers and emergency assistance.
• Center for Work Education and Employment
  Job skills training for single parent welfare recipients.
• Family Tree, Inc.
• The Gathering Place
  Supports women and their children experiencing homelessness or poverty by providing safe daytime refuge and resources for self-sufficiency.
• Human Services, Inc.
  Provides self-sufficiency services, counseling, interpreting services for the deaf, teen parent education, and shelter for abused teens and the homeless.
• Jeffco Action Center
  Provides immediate response to basic human needs and promotes self-sufficiency through a continuum of emergency services.
• Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, Inc.
  Promotes economic self-sufficiency for women through training, job placement and referrals. Prevention/intervention programs for youth.
• Providence Network
  Christian-based transitional home for low-income abused women and children who are leaving domestic violence situations.
• STRIDE: Families Achieving Economic Self-Sufficiency
  Enables low-income individuals and families to become economically self-sufficient and independent of government and community sponsored assistance for basic needs.
• Tri-County Workforce Services
  Provides a consolidated system of free, public-funded services for assisting individuals with career planning, employment and referrals. Serving Jefferson, Clear Creek and Gilpin counties, Colorado.
• Urban Peak
  Serves homeless and runaway youth in metro Denver.
• Volunteers of America
  Provides homeless and senior services, food distribution, meals-on-wheels, battered women's shelter and services, and emergency assistance for paroled offenders.
• Women's Bean Project
  A stepping stone toward outside employment and personal and economic self-sufficiency for women who come from backgrounds of chronic unemployment, poverty or displacement.

CHILDREN-YOUTH-FAMILIES

• Boys Hope Girls Hope
  Provides educational assistance and housing to at-risk youth ages 10-14.
• Bridgeway
  Shelter, education, counseling, support for pregnant teens and their babies.
• CASA of Jeffco and Gilpin Counties
  Promotes and advocates the best interests of abused and neglected children in Jefferson and Gilpin Counties, Colorado.
• Colorado Children's Campaign
• Colorado Department of Education
• Colorado Department of Human Services
• Jefferson County Public Schools (Colorado)
• National Runaway Switchboard
  1-800-621-4000
• NBA Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home (formerly the NBA Colorado Christian Home Tennyson Center for Children & Families
  Dedicated to breaking the cycle of child abuse and neglect, serving and strengthening children and families through competent and caring treatment, educational and advocacy services.
• Tri-County Workforce Center - Youth Services
  The Youth Council is a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers and self-sufficient citizens.
• Urban Peak
  Serves homeless and runaway youth in metro Denver.

PARTNER AGENCIES

• Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations
• Developmental Disabilities Resource Center
  Support for individuals with developmental disabilities.
• Jefferson Center for Mental Health
• Metro Volunteers!
• Mile High United Way
• Seniors Resource Center
  Adult day-care, employment services, transportation for seniors.
• STRIDE: Families Achieving Economic Self-sufficiency
  Enables low-income individuals and families to become economically self-sufficient and independent of government and community sponsored assistance for basic needs.

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE LINKS - COLORADO

• CASA of Jeffco and Gilpin Counties
  Promotes and advocates the best interests of abused and neglected children in Jefferson and Gilpin Counties, Colorado.
• Colorado Bar Association Family Violence Program
  Educates attorneys and works to increase access to the legal system for victims of family violence. Monitors legislation and works to improve how cases are handled by the system.
• Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault
  CCASA is a statewide coalition working toward the elimination of sexual violence.
• Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance
  Statewide membership organization committed to addressing the needs of all victims of crime.
• Denver Victims Service Center
  Provides services to residents of and victims of crime committed in Denver.
• Project Pave Promotes alternatives to violence through education.
• Providence Network
  Christian-based transitional home for low-income abused women and children who are leaving domestic violence situations.
• Rape Assistance and Awareness Program
  Rape crisis center serving metro Denver that assists victims of sexual assault and provides programs that educate the public about preventing sexual violence.
• Victims Services 2000 Denver
  Assists victims of crime, service providers and allied professionals with helpful resources.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS