Do you feel like your house is busting at the seams this time of year?
If you're ready to clean out toys and clothes that your kids no longer use, and know that another child would put them to good use, take a look at the resources below.
We have some incredible organizations right here in our area that does so many good things for our community. Consider taking your items directly to them instead of dropping them off at a thrift store, these organizations help families right in our community.
Joyful Journeys
Joyful Journeys Community Enrichment helps improve the lives of families by providing critical human services like food, clothes, hygiene products, baby items, and school supplies.
Simply providing emergency essentials though is a band-aid to a much larger problem. They proactively fight the battle by providing tutoring and after-school support, exercise and nutrition classes, financial literacy courses. They also host a community garden, clean the streets, help struggling families over the holidays, provide resume building assistance and household budgeting classes!
A Precious Child
A Precious Child assists children and families facing difficult life challenges such as abuse and neglect, crisis situations, and poverty. They work with more than 300 agency partners throughout eight countries which include Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, and Weld Counties to identify children and families in the most need of services.
Their core initiatives help build the whole child, in addition to meeting basic human needs through their Resource Center and Boutiques (satellite resource centers), they also help children and their families navigate community resources. Through A Precious Child's four Key Focus Areas, they aim to bridge the gap in a child's education so that they can become a secure, self-reliant, contributing member of their community as adults.
Growing Home
Growing Home's mission is to guide children and their families on the path to a brighter future. Growing Home provides dual-generation services to families with children, working alongside our community to break the cycle of generational poverty. Their wrap-around approach serves the whole family with intensive support to overcome immediate and long-term obstacles.
They strengthen families during times of crisis by offering food, temporary housing, healthcare, and homeless prevention assistance. Early childhood interventions nurture children from birth through age eight with evidence-based programs that help prepare young kids for kindergarten and keep older kids on the path to school success. Their Blocks of Hope neighborhood initiative is enlisting an entire community to join forces toward a common goal to transform lives.
Each of these organizations makes a huge impact in our local community, and we're grateful that they're here!
