Project Homeless Connect '11: A Great Success!

This year's Project Homeless Connect 2011 was held at the Colorado Convention Center. Over 1,000 volunteers participated at this one-stop stop event, where such services like birth certificates,job assistance, basic health care, food stamps, legal aid & homeless court, community resources, housing, and individual self care. This event provides simple, sustainable services that homeless individuals can receive, while being helpful tools to assist them out of poverty. This year, Denver's Road Home collaborated by bringing volunteers from KPMG LLP and Beta Alpha Psi to create a wonderful community of like minded individuals working to create change for homeless individuals in Denver. For a full video on this year's Project Homeless Connect, please click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/67lecc2

For more information on Project Homeless Connect, please check out Denver's Road Home go to: http://www.denversroadhome.org/ or to find out more information on our office, the Center for Urban Connections please come into Tivoli 243 or go to www.mscd.edu/urbanconnect.

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Rachelle
Events Assistant
Center for Urban Connections

Metro State students volunteer for youth summer camp, develops a community collaboration

This summer, Metro State's Journey Through Our Heritage Program reached out to a close & local population surrounding Metro's community, the La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood.They formed a program in this neighborhood, after learning that the La Alma pool was going to be closed for the summer, giving many kids in that neighborhood minimal activities to do during that time.

Metro students planned a 6 week program full of activities, from art to fishing. The Journey Through Our Heritage program was able to recruit students from the Chicano/a Studies's class Educating Chicano Children and a creative problem solving class through the Center for Innovation.

For more information on this article, please go to the following webpage: http://www.mscd.edu/newsroom/

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Rachelle
Events Assistant
Center for Urban Connections

Welcome Back to Fall Semester, Servistas!

As you start to get ready for fall classes, you may have free time to spare either on campus or in your community. The Center for Urban Connections would like you to know that we would love to see you at one of our engaging events coming up this fall.

Whether you are interests include climbing with youth or being a part of a book club where you participate in a service project with a local non-profit organization,we hope to keep you engaged in your local community.


Another volunteer opportunity that you could become involved in is with Climbing for Life. This non-profit is committed to providing an experience that will deeply impact the self image of youth at risk, and provides them with positive steps to build a great future for youth. Volunteers are needed to help with belay, group management and simple interaction with youth. If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity please contact our program coordinator, Ryan Campbell at (303) 352-7129 and click on this link:climbingforlife.org/ to apply for this volunteer position.

Our next event is a reoccurring series called 1 Book/ 1 Project/ 2 Transform. This event is a book discussion that integrates a service project to help transform perspectives about social action issues for students, staff and faculty at Metro State.There are a couple of components that are involved with this event. First, you will participate by reading this semester's book, Enrique's Journey. This book is about the immigration of a Honduran boy, and his challenging journey to come to America to be reunited with his mother. In addition to reading Enrique's Journey, participants will do a service project that is related to immigration. For more information about this book, please visit enriquesjourney.com Sign-up for this event will begin in September, so please be on the lookout for upcoming announcements!



If you have any interest in these volunteer opportunities, please contact our office at (303) 352-7129 and or e-mail us at mscd-urbanconnect@mscd.edu.

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Rachelle
Events Assistant
Center for Urban Connections