Standup for Kids Denver
We serve unaccompanied homeless and at risk youth and young parents with children of their own up to their 25th birthday. Our ongoing mission is to end the cycle of youth homelessness. To do this, we have built four core programs in many of the cities where we operate in volunteer teams: Street Outreach, Outreach Centers, Mentoring, and Apartment Support. We are quite proud of the fact that our volunteer teams build trust and become a consistent resource to stabilize and otherwise help those youth that the rest of society ignored.
We have been thriving serving dinner every single Sunday year round at a public park in downtown Denver where we serve approx 80-100 youth from about April until November and then when it gets dark early and colder, they tend to retreat to camps earlier in the day and our numbers drop to about 40 on those Sundays.
We do street outreach every Tuesday night where we reach anywhere from 20-75 youth, again, depending on weather, time of year and where we go on any given Tuesday.