Maintain Healthy Bodies

Provide at least 60 unduplicated, minority students with physical activity each week via biking, playing basketball, karate, dancing, swimming or other forms of culturally responsive recreation, which is augmented by nutrition and wellness activities, so youth have the agency to make decisions related to good physical well-being.

Increase safety and mobility for Northeast Park Hill residents while maintaining the culture and history of the neighborhood through the 303 ArtWay. Build off the Corridor Study and recent small-scale improvements to reimagine Holly Square and its surrounding connections as an interactive hub for multiple generations. Through redesigning these spaces elevate local cultural capital to create an equitable, healthy and vibrant future for all.

Increase use and access to the play areas at Chipeta Elementary year-round by increasing shade, improving existing playground structures, augmenting play equipment, installing durable turf in the play area and providing access to drinking water outside.

Increase equitable access to physical activity, improve physical wellness and healthy eating, promote positive psychosocial assets for students through the addition of Body Positive training and the totality of our Health & Wellness programming.

Create safe, inclusive, calming and creative outdoor spaces for the students and community of Conrad Ball School. Help welcome and include children and community members who often are excluded due to accessibility and cultural challenges.

Build key outdoor elements of a long-awaited library in north Boulder, which were requested by the surrounding community through an extensive engagement process. The community has requested a Playground, Learning Garden, Outdoor Plaza Maker Space and Family Civic Plaza. It was intended that these elements be included in overall construction of the library building, however, the outdoor elements were cut in order to compensate for escalating construction costs.

Sustain the free mobile health clinic and its staff which includes behavioral health navigators. CCC strives to reduce the barriers to healthcare that low socioeconomic status populations and neighborhoods, people who experience housing insecurity and those who live with substance use, addiction and recovery encounter so that they can access the services and supports they need to thrive in health and wellness.

Support for general clinic operations including the opening of the newly constructed health center at 48th and Vine in the Globeville/Elyria/Swansea neighborhood in early 2023, expanding services and supports to this marginalized and underserved community.

Mobilize the northeast Denver community to drive a development process that will result in resources for children and youth development programming in the northeast and far northeast Denver communities. By building on assets that already exist in northeast Denver, especially for our children and youth, it is our desire to design a space that meets the physical well-being of our community in ways that are safe, intergenerational and fun!

Develop a long-term sustainable infrastructure for a robust health equity program supporting racial and ethnic minorities that also emphasizes social justice. The infrastructure requires real estate acquisition to build financial equity along with fiscal stability and building cash reserves to stabilize and scale up organizational capacity.