Community Service

Welcome to the Community Service page! 

If you're looking for a way to be more involved with the Denver, Aurora, or Colorado Springs community, then you are in the right place! Here you will find a list of community organizations that students from CU have volunteered with along with contact information.  


This list is maintained by the Community Outreach Directors. If you note any inaccuracies, or know organizations that should be added to the list, please contact us.

Community Outreach Directors: Brandon Bellen &  Jamie Burke

(brandon.bellen@cuanschutz.edu, jamie.2.burke@cuanschutz.edu)

Advocacy

Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative

Description: To use collaboration, education, and research to prevent all types of firearm-related injuries and deaths in our homes and communities.


Park Hill Neighbors for Equitable Education

Description: PHNEE is a group of engaged parents and community members working to ensure that all students attending our neighborhood’s elementary schools get a quality education.


One Colorado

Description: One Colorado is the state’s leading advocacy organization dedicated to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Coloradans and their families. We effectively advocate for LGBTQ Coloradans and their families by lobbying the General Assembly, the executive branch, and local governments on issues like safe schools, transgender equality, relationship recognition, and LGBTQ health and human services.


Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition

Description: Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) is the premier organization in Colorado advocating for disability rights. Our mission is to advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities (what we call a cross-disability). Members consist of people with disabilities and our non-disabled allies (coworkers, employers, family members, friends, and neighbors), all working together to support disability rights. Cross-disability means that we believe people with different types of disabilities have more in common than not and that we do best when we work together. We have the most power if all disability groups work together for a common good.


Cultivando

Description: Cultivando is an organization that serves the Latino community in Adams County and focuses on community leadership to advance health equity through advocacy, collaboration, and policy change.


Servicios de la Raza

Description: The mission of Servicios de La Raza is to build and cultivate a thriving Latino community in Colorado in which all members have the opportunities and support systems to achieve equity, self-sufficiency, and self-determination for a healthy quality of life.


Kempe Center

Description: Kempe promotes understanding, knowledge, and best practices to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect globally.


Colorado Non Profit Development Center- Benefits in Action

Description: We strive to increase understanding, access, and utilization of healthcare resources. Our team of navigators works with individuals to help them recognize the health-related benefits they qualify for, apply to those benefits, and utilize them as effectively as possible.


PSR Colorado Physicians for Social Responsibility

Description: PSR Colorado works to keep health professionals and the community aware of the most current, factual, and reliable information. We work at the local, state, and federal level to support communities in their efforts to mitigate fracking and its harmful impacts through lobbying, educating decision-makers, letters to the editor, testimonies, and seminars.

BIPOC organizations

Project Mosaic

Description: Nearly all of our work is with Native-led nonprofits or Native-serving academic institutions and government agencies. We are a BIPOC woman-owned business.


Cultivando

Description: Cultivando is an organization that serves the Latino community in Adams County and focuses on community leadership to advance health equity through advocacy, collaboration, and policy change.


Servicios de la Raza

Description: The mission of Servicios de la Raza is to build and cultivate a thriving Latino community in Colorado in which all members have the opportunities and support systems to achieve equity, self-sufficiency, and self-determination for a healthy quality of life.


Colorado Black Health Collaborative

Description: The Colorado Black Health Collaborative is a community-based organization that is committed to improving health and wellness in Colorado’s Black, African, and African American communities through collaborations, partnerships, and teaming arrangements with community-based organizations, non-profits, public organizations, private entities, and government agencies.


2040-Addressing Infant and Maternal Mortality (AIMM)

Description: We are an interdisciplinary group of medical, nurse practitioner, and public health students collaborating with others in the community to address the racial disparity in infant mortality that exists both in Colorado and nationwide.


2040-Native American Project

Description: Our goal is to support the health and wellness of AI/AN students through a longitudinal mentorship collaboration that supports and expands their career goals and their personal wellness. We believe building a bridge between our AI/AN program and the Anschutz Medical Campus will provide the AI/AN students with unique opportunities for mentorship, career guidance, and support from mentors currently enrolled in CU healthcare programs. This project is of importance to CU to enhance our school’s overall diversity and to work towards our mission of producing physicians and other healthcare professionals that are reflections of our society.



Climate

2040-Climate Change and Health Equity

Description: The Climate and Health Community Partnership is a project led by CU medical students with the goal of understanding community perceptions about climate and health and the role medical professionals should play in mitigating negative effects of climate change. Under this umbrella project, the Geriatric Heat Resiliency project is a relatively new endeavor exploring how extreme heat (one of Colorado’s major climate change threats) affects older people (who are more sensitive to extreme heat). Our goal is to partner with local nursing homes to help prevent negative health outcomes in nursing home residents. We also have a partnership with the Colorado Health Institute who has access to a lot of great data on climate and health in Colorado to support our work. This project is still in its early phases so there is lots of room to have a lead role and influence the direction of the project, if you would like.


350 Colorado

Description: 350 Colorado is building the local grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and transition to a sustainable future. Our overarching goals: Movement building, keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and promoting solutions.


Healthy Air and Water Colorado

Description: HAWC advocates for public policy that focuses exclusively on the growing public health threats posed by climate change. We know that worsening air quality, rising temperatures and threats to water availability and quality – all products of climate change – have profound impacts on human health, particularly for our most vulnerable community members like those with existing health issues and children.


DIFRC | Denver Indian Family Resource Center

Description: Volunteers are at the heart of our work picking up beautiful, edible whole fruits & veggies that would otherwise be discarded from food vendors across the city and delivering it to neighborhoods that have less access to fresh, healthful foods. Our hyper-direct re-distribution model allows us to rescue more produce, and we utilize bike-power to keep our financial and environmental costs down. Plus bikes are more fun! Last year our volunteers saved over 8 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere while riding for DFR!

Community representation

Denver Metro Community Impact

Description: As a convener and facilitator of community and an organizational network, Denver Metro Community Impact (DMCI) represents a medium to understand neighborhood interests, the world of philanthropy, government, and any other entity seeking to work for and with the community.

Northern Colorado Health Alliance

Description: The North Colorado Health Alliance convenes partners and co-workers in education, community service, health care, business, faith-based organizations, and government.

Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning

Description: Founded in 1979, Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning is a nationally recognized provider of effective intercultural learning programs and services. It is a nonprofit, community-based organization working to build brighter futures for individuals and foster more inclusive organizations.

Girls with Guts

Description: A non-profit organization supporting and empowering women with IBD and/or ostomies.


Education

Western AHEC

Mission: The WCAHEC's mission is to promote healthier communities through education and health care quality improvement and to improve access to health care in underserved areas. The WCAHEC provides personal healthcare learning experiences for consumers and professional learning experiences for healthcare providers. We are dedicated to the promotion of healthcare careers and strive to improve the supply, distribution, diversity, and quality of the health workforce.

Description: The Western Colorado AHEC program emphasizes community-based training of healthcare providers through community and academic partnerships.


Mile High Behavioral Health

Mission:Empowers individuals to shape healthy, viable, complete lives. Our care is vital to those on the fringes of our community—individuals struggling to hold on and move forward. For high-risk, high-need individuals, there are significant barriers to services. We are there for them with life-changing care.


Inside Out Youth Services


Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)


Health Care Interest Program (HIPP) MC2, Juniors and Seniors in High school

Description: HIP supports the academic and professional development needs of its students through a combined approach including mentorship, lectures, and workshops. The program, which offers two credit hours across two semesters, bridges basic science coursework with real-world application while advancing students’ awareness of the regional healthcare needs addressed by the Denver Health system.


One Accord Ministries

Description: Program that matches tutors to kids 6-18 for evening online tutoring


Powered by Partners

Mission: Our mission is to empower youth and community members to achieve their full potential through mentoring, prevention education, and strategic partnership.


Reach out and Read

Description: We empower health care providers to talk with parents of young children about the importance of reading aloud at health check-ups with a special focus on children growing up in poverty.


Reading Partners Paris Elementary School

Description: Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade.


Think Like a Scientist

Mission: Our mission is to invest in early childhood education in order to empower the next generation of scientists. We fulfill our mission by offering after-school science programs free-of-charge to elementary schools that serve historically underrepresented groups (HUGs) in STEM surrounding the CU Anschutz medical campus.


Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative

Mission: To use collaboration, education, and research to prevent all types of firearm-related injuries and deaths in our homes and communities.


Park Hill Neighbors for Equitable Education

Description: PHNEE is a group of engaged parents and community members working to ensure that all students attending our neighborhood’s elementary schools get a quality education.


Front Range Area Health Education Center

Description: The FRAHEC is committed to increasing the diversity and distribution of the healthcare workforce, through programs that include pipeline health care career exploration, support, and interdisciplinary enrichment for healthcare students, and learning opportunities for healthcare professionals.


PSR Colorado Physicians for Social Responsibility

Description: PSR Colorado works to keep health professionals and the community aware of the most current, factual, and reliable information. We work at the local, state, and federal level to support communities in their efforts to mitigate fracking and its harmful impacts through lobbying, educating decision-makers, letters to the editor, testimonies, and seminars.


Conflict Center

Description: Through our youth and adult classes and conflict management workshops, we empower individuals to see and use conflict as an opportunity to grow, learn, and create positive change in their lives.



Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning

Description: Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning is a nationally recognized provider of effective intercultural learning programs and services. It is a nonprofit, community-based organization working to build brighter futures for individuals and foster more inclusive organizations.

Food insecurity

DIFRC | Denver Indian Family Resource Center

Description: Volunteers are at the heart of our work, picking up beautiful, edible whole fruits & veggies that would otherwise be discarded from food vendors across the city and delivering it to neighborhoods that have less access to fresh, healthful foods. Our hyper-direct re-distribution model allows us to rescue more produce, and we utilize bike-power to keep our financial and environmental costs down. Plus, bikes are more fun! Last year our volunteers saved over 8 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere while riding for DFR!


Earth Farm


Healthy Archuleta

Description: We work in nutrition security and many other things related to primary care and prevention, social determinants of health, and health education.


Metro Caring

Description: Metro Caring works with our community to meet people’s immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger.


Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (Mile High Health Alliance)

Description: The Mile High Health Alliance makes Denver a place where every resident can live their healthiest life by bringing together key decision-makers to align housing, transportation, food, and medical care systems.


Denver Food Rescue

Description: DFR currently partners with over 50 retailers such as grocery stores, wholesale distributors, and farmers markets to provide regular food rescue services focused on fresh edible produce and highly perishable items that would otherwise end up in landfills. Even backyard gardeners can donate their excess produce through Fresh Food Connect. These donations go to support our weekly No Cost Grocery Programs around the city.

Health Equity and Access

AHEC

Description: We work towards ensuring health equity in Colorado. We increase the diversity and distribution of the health care workforce to address healthcare disparities in this state. We support practice transformation throughout Colorado to ensure high-quality healthcare delivery for everyone. We serve as the link between Coloradans, state resources, and the resources of Anschutz medical campus to help healthy people thrive in healthy communities.


Aurora Health Alliance (AHA)

Description: To achieve equitable access and promote a healthier Aurora for everyone.


Colorado Non Profit Development Center- Benefits in Action

Description: We strive to increase understanding, access, and utilization of healthcare resources. Our team of navigators works with individuals to help them recognize the health-related benefits they qualify for, apply to those benefits, and utilize them as effectively as possible.


Aurora Resident Leadership Council

Description: The Resident Leadership Council (RLC) is a group of community leaders dedicated to improving the quality of life of residents in Aurora and the surrounding neighborhoods by promoting equitable access to education, health, and economic opportunities. The RLC was established in 2014 as a grassroots volunteer organization associated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in order to represent and be a voice for residents who live in Aurora, especially those from immigrant, refugee, and underserved communities.


Servicios de la Raza

Description: The mission of Servicios de La Raza is to build and cultivate a thriving Latino community in Colorado in which all members have the opportunities and support systems to achieve equity, self-sufficiency, and self-determination for a healthy quality of life.


2040-Addressing Infant and Maternal Mortality (AIMM)

Description: We are an interdisciplinary group of medical, nurse practitioner, and public health students collaborating with others in the community to address the racial disparity in infant mortality that exists both in Colorado and nationwide.


Alianza NORCO

Description: Alianza NORCO is a non-profit organization formed largely by immigrants from our northern Colorado community. In partnership with multi-ethnic allies and pro-immigrant groups, our goal is to break down the obstacles we face as immigrants and empower our families and communities to change the systems that oppress us.


DAWN Clinic

Description: We provide patient-centered care to meet the needs of the diverse underserved population of Aurora, collaborate with community partners to overcome socioeconomic and cultural barriers to patient health and wellness, cultivate passion for underserved healthcare through interprofessional teamwork, and foster future providers to become leaders who are proponents for change in primary care.


9 Health 365

Description: 365 Health advances health awareness, providing people with the tools they need to take responsibility for their own health. Provides vital preventive health screenings to Coloradans who are underserved, and/or who have an active interest in their health.


Chaffee County Oral Health Program Director

Description: A mobile health program to reach underserved people with integrated services along with others in the County Health Department as well further developing integrated services at the outreach clinic in Saguache which is just south of Salida.


Healthsystems improvement

2040-CSTHAR (Community and Students together against healthcare racism)

Description: Community and Students Together Against Healthcare Racism (CSTAHR): CSTAHR is a longitudinal community-based participatory research program founded in 2010 by Denver/Aurora community members and medical students at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. We work to reduce disparities in health outcomes by working together closely and getting to know community members and the Northeast Park Hill/Aurora communities. CSTAHR works directly with community members to aim to empower patients in the healthcare system, retrain health professional students in an anti-racist manner, and dismantle institutionalized racism in our hospitals, schools, and communities. There are several ways to get involved with CSTAHR, including through established projects and working with community members to develop new programs and projects. All students who select a CSTAHR project for service-learning will be expected to remain involved with CSTAHR longitudinally by attending two meetings each month (a student meeting and a community meeting).


2040-Native American Project

Description: Our goal is to support the health and wellness of AI/AN students through a longitudinal mentorship collaboration that supports and expands their career goals and their personal wellness. We believe building a bridge between our AI/AN program and the Anschutz Medical Campus will provide the AI/AN students with unique opportunities for mentorship, career guidance, and support from mentors currently enrolled in CU healthcare programs. This project is of importance to CU to enhance our school’s overall diversity and to work towards our mission of producing physicians and other healthcare professionals that are reflections of our society.


Front Range Area Health Education Center (FRAHEC)

Description: The FRAHEC is committed to increasing the diversity and distribution of the healthcare workforce through programs that include pipeline health care career exploration, support, and interdisciplinary enrichment for healthcare students, and learning opportunities for healthcare professionals.

PSR Colorado Physicians for Social Responsibility

Description: PSR Colorado works to keep health professionals and the community aware of the most current, factual, and reliable information. They work at the local, state, and federal levels to support communities in their efforts to mitigate fracking and its harmful impacts through lobbying, educating decision-makers, letters to the editor, testimonies, and seminars.


Colorado Resiliency Arts Lab (CORAL)

Description: Committed to improving the lives of healthcare professionals through various avenues; providing connections to the arts, community, research, etc.


Faces of the Future

Description: FACES programs address the full context of a student’s life, providing the academic support, case management and mentoring, and youth leadership development opportunities that allow youth to learn about health careers and to have the confidence, skills and support necessary to pursue their dreams.


Community Health Partnership


2040-Mental Health Education Project

Description: Individuals with mental illnesses face a variety of challenges obtaining proper healthcare, including financial and insurance barriers, a shortage of trained providers, language and cultural barriers, and stigmatization. Gaining an understanding of the challenges the mental health community faces and the barriers to seeking appropriate care, as defined by community members, will provide an invaluable learning experience to medical trainees. Through increased community engagement, the goal of the Mental Health Community Engagement Program (MHCEP) is to improve the experience of both mentally ill patients and healthcare professionals when they encounter each other in the healthcare system at any entry point. MHCEP provides a platform for students to generate innovative ideas and approaches to solving issues plaguing the mental healthcare system. Students will gain leadership, research, and project planning skills. Projects may include literature review, research, community outreach, developing case studies, developing a longitudinal service-learning course, hosting workshops, etc. Execution of the projects is dependent on the student’s interest, background, and the program’s needs.


Multidisciplinary Center on Aging (COAST-IT)

Description: The mission of the center is to promote improved health for older adults through the establishment and continuation of high quality and innovative clinical programs; the education of community professionals in geriatrics and gerontology; an emphasis on multidisciplinary team care and activity; and the promotion of collaborative transdisciplinary efforts in basic, clinical, and health services research that span the university community


Housing Insecurity

Working Fusion at Mill Street

Description: Working Fusion at Mill Street is a neighborhood community that fortifies motivated young adults to create lives of purpose and sustainable independence. By providing dignified housing, accessible support services, and an inspiring peer community, Working Fusion becomes a partner in creating a clear path forward for young adults who have experienced economic challenges.


Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (Mile High Health Alliance)

Description: The Mile High Health Alliance makes Denver a place where every resident can live their healthiest life by bringing together key decision-makers to align housing, transportation, food, and medical care systems.


Homeward Alliance

Description: Homeward Alliance operates a continuum of programs and initiatives for families, adults, and seniors, such as basic needs, housing-focused case management, and employment services.


Mercy Housing Mountain Plains

Description: Mercy Housing Mountain Plains seeks to address this crisis by providing safe, quality affordable homes to thousands of low-income people. With a total of 41 communities, Mercy Housing Mountain Plains operates in seven states.


Neighbor 2 Neighbor

Description: From homelessness through homeownership, Neighbor to Neighbor is providing sustainable housing, supportive services, and education to families and individuals primarily in Larimer County.


St. Benedicts

Description: To see lives transformed and filled with hope as our community works together to fight homelessness, poverty, and addiction.


Springs Rescue Mission


The Place

Description: Our mission ignites the potential in youth to exit homelessness and create self-determined, fulfilled lives.


Urban Peak Shelter

Description: Urban Peak ignites the potential in youth to exit homelessness and create self-determined, fulfilled lives.


Sherlock's Home Foundation Southern Colorado Rainbow Co-Op

Description: Homestead providing mutual aid, housing, resource support, and community to local LGBTQ+ persons.


Harvest Farm

Description: Harvest Farm is a 100-acre farm and rehabilitation center for men, located in Wellington, Colorado. Owned and operated by Denver Rescue Mission, the Farm hosts up to 72 men who participate in our long-term New Life Program with the goal of breaking the cycles of addiction and homelessness.


individuals with disabilities

Therapeutic Recreation Program

Description: The Therapeutic Recreation Program (TRP) provides opportunities for youth and adults with disabilities to acquire skills that enable them to participate in leisure experiences of their choice and enhance their abilities to function within a community setting. The TR staff provides advocacy and inclusion support for individuals with disabilities to enjoy general recreation activities, as well as specialized therapeutic programs that include opportunities in the following core areas:



Respite Care

Description:Respite Care, Inc. is a nonprofit organization in Northern Colorado that provides short-term, quality care for children with developmental disabilities and respite to their families, enabling them to enhance their quality of life.


Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition

Description: Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) is the premier organization in Colorado advocating for disability rights. Our mission is to advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities (what we call a cross-disability). Members consist of people with disabilities and our non-disabled allies (coworkers, employers, family members, friends, and neighbors), all working together to support disability rights. Cross-disability means that we believe people with different types of disabilities have more in common than not and that we do best when we work together. We have the most power if all disability groups work together for a common good.


Nightlights

Description: Nightlights' mission is to create safe and accepting environments by providing respite care for children 4 weeks -13 years old who have special needs or special needs siblings.


The Resource Exchange

Description: The Resource Exchange (TRE) serves over 9,000 infants, children, teenagers, adults, and seniors in El Paso, Pueblo, Teller, and Park counties. Advocating for independence and inclusion, TRE partners with children and adults who have a variety of disabilities, delays, mental health, or long-term care needs. They do this using a person-centered approach in coordinating care, promoting choices, and collaborating with community partners.

Medically Underserved populations (lgbtq+, elderly, incarcerated people)

LGBTQ+

Hey Denver

Description: HeyDenver is a non-profit community-based organization that provides Queer-focused free and confidential sexual health services, outreach, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing. We are an extension of Colorado Health Network.


Sherlock's Home Foundation Southern Colorado Rainbow Co-Op

Description: Homestead providing mutual aid, housing, resource support, and community to local LGBTQ+ persons.



elderly

Botanic Garden

Description: Community Programs for seniors and wellness


Multidisciplinary Center on Aging (COAST-IT)

Description: The mission of the center is to promote improved health for older adults through the establishment and continuation of high quality and innovative clinical programs; the education of community professionals in geriatrics and gerontology; an emphasis on multidisciplinary team care and activity; and the promotion of collaborative transdisciplinary efforts in basic, clinical, and health services research that span the university community


incarcerated people

Breakthrough (formerly Defy Colorado)

Description: A successful reentry begins inside correctional facilities and is dependent upon a community ready to foster a productive return. Breakthrough takes a holistic approach to community and person, and our in-facility program focuses on character development, job readiness, reentry planning, and the entrepreneurial mindset, providing an opportunity for holistic growth.


Mental Health/addiction

2040-VA's Veteran Engagement Board for Opioid Addiction & Recovery

Description: The Opioid Addiction and Recovery Veteran Engagement Board (OAR-VEB) is a national board of thirteen Veterans. Members come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are working full time, several as VA employees, while others are retired or disabled. Some served for as little as two years in the military while others served for more than fifteen. Some saw combat. Some became addicted to opioids due to events they experienced or injuries while they were in the military. Others were addicted before they ever set foot on a military base. Some have been in recovery for a year while others have been in recovery for over a decade. Some use medications to manage their addiction while others use holistic therapies. All are Veterans in recovery from Opioid Use Disorder.


NAMI

Description: NAMI Denver is a local, all volunteer, non-profit organization of individuals, families and/or friends living with serious mental illnesses. It is a grassroots group open to all area residents desiring to work together on behalf of those who have a mental illness and to help their families support those living with mental illness.


Summitstone FC

Description: For more than 65 years, SummitStone Health Partners has been transforming lives through recovery, renewal and respect by providing unsurpassed behavioral health prevention, intervention, and treatment services in Larimer County. SummitStone provides more than 50 services dedicated to treating mental health and addiction disorders for people of all ages. We are the largest behavioral health provider of Medicaid in Larimer County. SummitStone Health Partners is a 501(c)(3) organization.


The Center for Trauma & Resilience

Description: The Center for Trauma & Resilience is a 35-year-old nonprofit and we offer the students an opportunity to work with victims/survivors of a broad range of crimes from purse snatching to homicide. We have a program specific to serving elders and a legal immigration clinic - serving clients from 22 countries who have suffered intimate partner violence or sexual assault.


Conflict Center

Description: Through our youth and adult classes and conflict management workshops, we empower individuals to see and use conflict as an opportunity to grow, learn, and create positive change in their lives.


Harvest Farm FC

Description: Harvest Farm is a 100-acre farm and rehabilitation center for men, located in Wellington, Colorado. Owned and operated by Denver Rescue Mission, the Farm hosts up to 72 men who participate in our long-term New Life Program with the goal of breaking the cycles of addiction and homelessness.


2040-Mental Health Education Project

Description: Individuals with mental illnesses face a variety of challenges obtaining proper healthcare, including financial and insurance barriers, a shortage of trained providers, language and cultural barriers, and stigmatization. Gaining an understanding of the challenges the mental health community faces and the barriers to seeking appropriate care, as defined by community members, will provide an invaluable learning experience to medical trainees. Through increased community engagement, the goal of the Mental Health Community Engagement Program (MHCEP) is to improve the experience of both mentally ill patients and healthcare professionals when they encounter each other in the healthcare system at any entry point. MHCEP provides a platform for students to generate innovative ideas and approaches to solving issues plaguing the mental healthcare system. Students will gain leadership, research, and project planning skills. Projects may include literature review, research, community outreach, developing case studies, developing a longitudinal service-learning course, hosting workshops, etc. Execution of the projects is dependent on the student’s interest, background, and the program’s needs.


Colorado Black Health Collaborative

Description: The Colorado Black Health Collaborative is a community-based organization that is committed to improving health and wellness in Colorado’s Black, African, and African American communities through collaborations, partnerships, and teaming arrangements with community-based organizations, non-profits, public organizations, private entities, and government agencies.


Phoenix Center at Anschutz

Description: The Phoenix Center at Anschutz (PCA)​ is a free and confidential resource for students, faculty, and staff who are affected by interpersonal violence (IPV) including relationship violence, sexual violence, and stalking.


St. Benedicts

Description: To see lives transformed and filled with hope as our community works together to fight homelessness, poverty, and addiction.


Yahweh Health Clinic

Description: We enhance the quality of life by providing basic health care, resources, mental and spiritual health care support services.


2040-Implementation of an Alcohol Abuse Health Literacy Program in a Local Burmese Refugee Community

Description: Our project is a community-based healthcare intervention that works in a local community of Burmese refugees to provide education on problematic alcohol abuse. This project is the result of a multiple year relationship between CUSOM students and this particular local population of Burmese refugees. This project would be an excellent opportunity to develop patient skills, public health strategies, and participate in community-based research involving strong community participation and a longitudinal, relationship-based project. Additionally, this project will provide exposure to a mixed method study format in addition to having the potential to evolve into further projects due to the long-standing relationship with this community.


Kempe Center

Description: Kempe promotes understanding, knowledge, and best practices to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect globally.


The Resource Exchange

Description: The Resource Exchange (TRE), serves over 9,000 infants, children, teenagers, adults, and seniors in El Paso, Pueblo, Teller, and Park counties. Advocating for independence and inclusion, TRE partners with children and adults who have a variety of disabilities, delays, mental health or long-term care needs. We do this using a person-centered approach in coordinating care, promoting choices, and collaborating with community partners.


Mile High Behavioral Health

Description: Empowers individuals to shape healthy, viable, complete lives. Our care is vital to those on the fringes of our community—individuals struggling to hold on and move forward. For high-risk, high-need individuals, there are significant barriers to services. We are there for them with life-changing care.


Mile High Behavioral Healthcare- Foot Clinic

Description: Empowers individuals to shape healthy, viable, complete lives. Our care is vital to those on the fringes of our community—individuals struggling to hold on and move forward. For high-risk, high-need individuals, there are significant barriers to services. We are there for them with life-changing care.

Refugee/Immigrant organizations

Immigrant and Refugee Center of Northern Colorado

Description: It doesn't matter the circumstances that brought you here today; what matters is that you are here now. IRCNoCo is here to help you find your way. We want to be the doorway through which cross-cultural sharing and experiences occur. Whether you are new to this area or you are a part of the receiving community, we want to be your resource for information and services related to moving our community forward together. Through information sharing, dialogue, and events where we can all come together as one, we are investing into our shared prosperity.


Iraqi Refugee Project

Description: Our project involves working with the Iraqi migrant community in Aurora and Denver regarding barriers they face to adequate healthcare. In the past, we have conducted community-based participatory research in the form of interviews with members of this community to get a better understanding of the issues they face and how we can better serve them in healthcare. Our research has found that this population has difficulties with transitioning from a point of care medical system in Iraq to a more primary care driven system here in the U.S, financial barriers, lack of access to mental health services, and communication discord. We are now transitioning to developing interventions rooted in these issues. This is an amazing project for students to be involved in if they have a passion for migrant healthcare or work with underserved populations in general. It is an opportunity to not only be involved in research but also provide a direct benefit to community members in need.


Project Worthmore

Description: To provide programs that foster community, self-sufficiency, and increase the quality of life among Denver-area refugees.


Village Exchange Center

Description: Village Exchange Center is a non-profit organization formed to serve immigrants and refugees in the Aurora/Denver metro area. As a community center and multi-faith worship space, we seek to celebrate cultural and religious diversity by creating an inclusive environment where residents from all backgrounds interact, share, and develop together.


Alianza NORCO

Description: Alianza NORCO is a non-profit organization formed largely by immigrants from our northern Colorado community. In partnership with multi-ethnic allies and pro-immigrant groups, our goal is to break down the obstacles we face as immigrants and empower our families and communities to change the systems that oppress us.


2040-Implementation of an Alcohol Abuse Health Literacy Program in a Local Burmese Refugee Community

Description: Our project is a community-based healthcare intervention that works in a local community of Burmese refugees to provide education on problematic alcohol abuse. This project is the result of a multiple year relationship between CUSOM students and this particular local population of Burmese refugees. This project would be an excellent opportunity to develop patient skills, public health strategies, and participate community-based research involving strong community participation and a longitudinal, relationship-based project. Additionally, this project will provide exposure to a mixed method study format in addition to having the potential to evolve into further projects due to the long-standing relationship with this community.


Aurora Resident Leadership Council

Description: The Resident Leadership Council (RLC) is a group of community leaders dedicated to improving the quality of life of residents in Aurora and the surrounding neighborhoods by promoting equitable access to education, health, and economic opportunities. The RLC was established in 2014 as a grassroots volunteer organization associated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in order to represent and be a voice for residents who live in Aurora, especially those from immigrant, refugee, and under-served communities.

Youth Organizations

Respite Care FC

Description: Respite Care, Inc. is a nonprofit organization in Northern Colorado that provides short-term, quality care for children with developmental disabilities and respite to their families, enabling them to enhance their quality of life.


Inside Out Youth Services

Description: Inside Out Youth Services engages diverse youth in meaningful arts education that sparks creativity, increases opportunity & strengthens community.


Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)

Description: DAVA engages diverse youth in meaningful arts education that sparks creativity, increases opportunity & strengthens community.


Health Care Interest Program (HIPP) MC2, Juniors and Seniors in High school

Description: HIP supports the academic and professional development needs of its students through a combined approach including mentorship, lectures, and workshops. The program, which offers two credit hours across two semesters, bridges basic science coursework with real-world application while advancing students’ awareness of the regional healthcare needs addressed by the Denver Health system.


One Accord Ministries

Description: Program that matches tutors to kids 6-18 for evening online tutoring.


Powered by Partners FC

Description: Our mission is to empower youth and community members to achieve their full potential through mentoring, prevention education, and strategic partnership.


Reach out and Read

Description: We empower health care providers to talk with parents of young children about the importance of reading aloud at health check-ups with a special focus on children growing up in poverty.


Reading Partners Paris Elementary School

Description: Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade.


Think Like a Scientist

Description: Our mission is to invest in early childhood education in order to empower the next generation of scientists. We fulfill our mission by offering after-school science programs free-of-charge to elementary schools that serve historically underrepresented groups (HUGs) in STEM surrounding the CU Anschutz medical campus.


Kempe Center

Description: Kempe promotes understanding, knowledge, and best practices to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect globally.


Denver Islamic Education Center dba Crescent View Academy

Description: Crescent View Academy’s private Islamic School’s mission is to provide a safe, nurturing and stimulating Islamic atmosphere to enable students to achieve a solid foundation of Islamic understanding according to the Quran, and life of Prophet Mohamed (SAW) with a true sense and pride of their Islamic identity. We want our students to achieve academic excellence and prepare our students to be morally and socially responsible citizens.


Gang Rescue and Support Project (GRASP)

Description: GRASP (Gang Rescue and Support Project) is a peer-run, intervention program that works with youth who are at-risk of gang involvement or are presently active in gangs, helps families of gang victims, and serves as a youth advocate.


Nightlights

Description: Mission to create safe and accepting environments by providing respite care for children 4 weeks -13 years old who have special needs or special needs siblings.


The Place

Description: Our mission ignites the potential in youth to exit homelessness and create self-determined, fulfilled lives.


Urban Peak Shelter

Description: Urban Peak ignites the potential in youth to exit homelessness and create self-determined, fulfilled lives.


The Resource Exchange CS

Description: The Resource Exchange (TRE), serves over 9,000 infants, children, teenagers, adults, and seniors in El Paso, Pueblo, Teller, and Park counties. Advocating for independence and inclusion, TRE partners with children and adults who have a variety of disabilities, delays, mental health, or long-term care needs. We do this using a person-centered approach in coordinating care, promoting choices, and collaborating with community partners.


Faces of the Future

Description: FACES programs address the full context of a student’s life, providing the academic support, case management and mentoring, and youth leadership development opportunities that allow youth to learn about health careers and to have the confidence, skills, and support necessary to pursue their dreams.