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1290 Williams Street
Suite 102
Denver, Colorado
80218-2657
(303) 830-1651
(303) 830-1782 Fax
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Homelessness Dialogue and Action Group Dialogue and Action Group Chair - Jim Slotta
Affordable housing and homelessness have long been challenges in the Greater Capitol Hill Neighoborhoods. In the late 1980's CHUN served as the incubater organization for Urban Peak, which has grown to become a successful high-impact organization working to get homeless youth off the streets and on a better path (www.urbanpeak.org).
But as issues of homelessness persisted in our neighborhoods, and as the ambitious Mayor's Plan to End Homelessness or Denver's Road Home (www.denversroadhome.org) came into being, CHUN recoginized that neighborhoods needed to be engaged in a discussion about understanding homelessess, the proposed solutions and the impact on the places where we live.
In January of 2006, CHUN in partnership with Capitol Hill United Ministries (CHUM) and the Institute on the Common Good at Regis University developed and facilitated the Homelessness Dialogue Project, which engaged residents, social service providers, churches and homeless people in small-cirlce dialoguges about homelessness in our community. The project staged 6 dialogue groups througout the Greater Capitol Hill, each of which met 4 times in a threaded conversation about homelessness, poverty and affordable housing(insert link to pdf dialogue guide here).
At the end of our conversations, we identified several key ideas folks wanted to work on together. Our group continues to meet the fourth Monday of each month. Our current Action Project is the Mentoring Intitiative, which connects neighborhood residents with agencies that run mentoring programs for homeless people trying to stablize their lives. We've partnership with Metro CareRing for this project. For more information about mentoring, contact Leisl Pyle at 303-860-7200 x3641 or lpyle@metrocarering.org.
We also continue to promote the Dialogue Process in other neighborhoods that have not yet had the experience. If you are interested in starting a dialogue about homlelessness in your neighborhood, contact the CHUN office.
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