By serving Coloradans who have less power, privilege and income, and by prioritizing Coloradans of color, we keep equity at the heart of our work to bring health in reach.
Nurture Healthy Minds
Empower campus communities to strengthen their overall efforts to address student mental health, substance misuse and suicide prevention. Bring JED campus programming to all four of Aims Community College's campuses.
Prodigy's Expansion Campaign
Double the number of apprenticeships offered to young adults through an expansion into Globeville and NE Denver, deepening leadership opportunities for emerging BIPOC leaders.
Cursos de Formación: Culturally-Relevant Early Childhood Education Training for the Latinx/Immigrant Community
Create an Early Childhood Education teacher training program in Spanish in collaboration with the Front Range Community College.
Racial Healing Centered Engagement Across Generations
Support healing centered engagement work in gendered and generational ways to honor continued work of surviving to thriving of our youth village through the Aurora Black Consortium (ABC) Coalition, collaborative healing sessions, gendered young men and women of color courses, and summer of activism camps.
Young Creatives Ecosystem
Strengthen young minds and resiliency through art via the Young Creatives Ecosystem, which consists of YOR's five out-of-school programs, by taking a wholistic approach to building, managing and growing the ecosystem and ensuring programs are youth-led, designed and centered in community care and creative youth development.
Social Emotional and Cultural Resiliency for Girls, Families and Communities of Color
Provide race and gender-responsive programming that builds resiliency in girls of color through three strategies: facilitating proactive social emotional and cultural enrichment in partner schools; facilitating intensive 1:1, group, and family intervention supports for highest-risk young women referred from school, community, and agency partners; and strengthening community ecosystems by bridging family-school-community partnerships and facilitating access to health resources.
Transformational Healing, Empowerment and Liberation Project
Provide culturally-rooted, healing-informed leadership, transformative justice, mentoring and rites of passage programs to youth of color in Colorado.
Dreaming of a Better Future: Community Health LGBTQ+ and Latine Youth Resilience Project
Partner with and support Latine and LGBTQ+ youth through the GENERATIONS and OASOS programs as they explore their voice, power and identities in order to effect change in their lives and broader community.