Programs
Youth Healing, Leadership, Liberation Programs
Kalpulli
Is a mentoring program for middle school aged youth that supports developing good mental health, positive peer to peer relationships, Youth and positive adult relationships, school, and family connectedness and middle school matriculation to high school. This program focuses on preventing violence, gang engagement, school dropout/push out.
Youth Justice Apprenticeship
Centers the voice power and self-determination of young people from communities of Color in Denver. It equipped them with the courageous education, community, organizing skills, and grassroots organizing tools to confront the deep rooted disparities their communities’s face every day. This includes over incarceration and criminalization to unequal access to healthcare, nutritious food, and quality education. Rooted in transformative justice and the historic resilience of their ancestors, apprentices are placed in the driver seat, reckoning with history, building power, and lead, leading the charge toward a future, where these disparities don’t exist, hope flourishes, and self-determination, prosperous. YJA centers youth mental health and the decriminalization of youth.
Joven Noble
Is a SAMMSA certified, evidence based curriculum from the National Compadres Network. A culturally rooted rights of passage program for self identified boys of color that supports youth in developing positive character, values, and life skills.
Girasol
Is a promising research informed rights of passage program for self identified girls from the National Compadres Network. This rights of passage, Program acts as a monumental event in the lives of girls that is empowering, honors their girlhood, and is a steppingstone into the journey of becoming a high character, young woman.
Hueliti
Is a program developed by girl participants who wanted to have a space to build power use their voice and make change in their community on a deeper level Hueliti specifically centers the theory of intersectionality to focus the unique experience of girls of color. The program is rooted in healing, empowerment, and specifically examining and working to dismantle racism, sexism, gender violence, anti-immigrant, and hateful rhetoric based on the identity of girls of color. The program is anchored in inspiring activism and self-determination for girls of color that attacks intersectional oppression.
Little Warrior Ways
is a program for 8 to 12-year-olds with the purpose of providing a safe space, with positive influence, that helps prepare children for the transition into middle school by developing strong positive character. This culturally rooted program supports children in building conference, cultivating a positive identity utilizing cultural traditions as a strength so participants can lead, dismantle bullying behavior and create positive peer relationships and influence.
Women and Community Services
Healthy Hoods Initiative
The healthy hood initiative at Colorado Circles for Change is a community rooted food access program that fights food apartheid in Denver‘s most underserved neighborhoods of color. The purpose is to lift the financial burden on families and give them access to nutritious culturally relevant food with the dignity that they deserve. Rooted in the belief that you cannot show up as your best self without eating good food, the program works to ensure that communities long denied access to healthy affordable food, have a reliable, dignified source of nourishment. At CCFC we believe food is not a privilege it is a right.
Rapid Response Program
When crisis strikes — a global pandemic, sudden job loss, an unexpected death in the family, or any emergency that threatens a family’s ability to pay rent or put food on the table — Colorado Circles for Change’s Rapid Response Program steps in with direct, immediate, community-rooted support for Denver’s most underserved families of color. No bureaucratic red tape, no dehumanizing process — just neighbors showing up for neighbors with the resources, dignity, and care that every family deserves, because in this community, we take care of each other.
This program is solely ran off of cash donations to the organization, this is a great area for our community to donate to support CCFC.
Cara y Corazon
is a family strengthening, leadership development program from the National Compadres Network that maintains that at the base of every culture, community, family and parent are the resiliency factors that can be tapped to assist parents and family members to build positive, healthy relationships with their children and themselves. By building on positive cultural values and traditions the curriculum guides parents/guardians to reflect on how they can maintain this positive form of identity while integrating and adapting the positive elements to today’s contemporary society.
Circulo de Sanacion
Is a transformational healing collector for women of COLOR that focuses on combat and trauma, stress, crisis, and build resiliency and a sister circle of support for women of COLOR. Through this program, we support all mothers and women family members who need a safe space to heal, learn, and build connections. We highly encourage moms and women who have been impacted by the criminal justice system, the loss of a child, the incarceration of a child, and other crisis that have impacted their well-being. At CCFC we believe that the health of our women is directly connected to the health of our communities, because the women carry the heart and spirit of our families and communities. Healing and learning circles are held for women to develop connections to one another, a sense of community, and to share stories and learn from each other‘s experience so they can be their best. Women of COLOR experience, specific forms of discrimination in the workplace, housing, and other basic functions of life that create disparities. Chronic stress, trauma, and generational wounds only exacerbate these disparities. We want to support women to be healthy and self-determined. CCFC also provides healing retreats for women of COLOR, who serve the community through service work, including nonprofit work, school, teachers, and in volunteer capacities. Those who carry this work, experienced vicarious, trauma and emotional residue from championing service for our communities. We work to provide opportunities for healing, rejuvenation, self nurturing, and community building.
Tlatoani (one who speaks)
Is a program focused on developing leadership for our parents and adult family members in the community. CCFC provides trainings, such as Know Your Rights, English learning classes, financial management, curanderismo, and developing advocacy skills.