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.

Double the number of apprenticeships offered to young adults through an expansion into Globeville and NE Denver, deepening leadership opportunities for emerging BIPOC leaders.

Create an Early Childhood Education teacher training program in Spanish in collaboration with the Front Range Community College.

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.

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.

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.

Provide culturally-rooted, healing-informed leadership, transformative justice, mentoring and rites of passage programs to youth of color in Colorado.

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.

Build young leaders in the BIPOC community and expand healing and liberation efforts by developing a curriculum for BIPOC 13-18 youth across the gender spectrum. Create opportunities for BIPOC youth to develop peer networks, celebrate their identities, learn their histories and culture, and creatively heal.

Promote positive youth development in emotional and behavioral health by providing evidence-based after-school programming, counseling and coaching for Latinx youth. Led by Latinxs for Latinxs, it is aimed at strengthening resiliency and promoting self-efficacy, coping skills, healthy behaviors, life skills and a sense of purpose. Ra�ces Vivas is comprised of two components Engaged Latino(a) Leaders Offering Social-Change and Bienstar Emotional.