Weld Faith Partnership Newsletter Sept. 2020

Weld County, Colorado sent this bulletin at 09/01/2020 07:00 AM MDT
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September 1, 2020

Our mission is to serve as an advisory liaison between the faith-based
community and the Weld County Commissioners. Established in 2008.

Foster Family Support

FOSTER FAMILY HELPERS PROJECT PROVIDES SUPPORT TO DURING COVID-19

Weld County’s children and youth in foster care and their foster families are now, more than ever, in need of extra support and encouragement through this difficult time with COVID-19. Our Foster Family Helpers project matches individuals and with a foster family to do small, practical, and consistent acts of kindness – and this is possible to do while still practicing social distancing. Helpers and foster families determine, together, what this looks like based on the needs of the family and the abilities of the helper.

 

Foster Family Helpers provide a little more margin and needed encouragement amid school changes and disrupted activities and routines due to social distancing measures. Our foster families have opened their homes and hearts to provide trauma-responsive care for Weld County’s children and youth who’ve been temporarily removed from their homes due to safety concerns, while their parents work on a treatment plan toward family reunification. Children and youth in foster care need tender loving care because of the challenges they have experienced. Foster parents provide this necessary and valuable service to our community and small acts of kindness and encouragement can go a long way for everyone in the foster home.

 

Here are some ideas for how to help foster families: provide meals (homemade dinners and freezer meals, or take-out/delivery); laundry; transportation; tutoring or homework help; yard work or snow removal; pick up needed items from the store, respite. For more information, or to get started, contact fostercare@weldgov.com

 
Trauma

NEW TRAINING OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE TO THOSE LOOKING TO HELP HELP CHILDREN FROM 'HARD PLACES'

Weld County Department of Human is pleased to offer Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Caregiver Training. TBRI is an attachment focused, evidence-based parenting and intervention model. It is a trauma-informed intervention that is specifically designed for parents and caregivers of children who come from ‘hard places,’ such as maltreatment, abuse, neglect, multiple home placements, and violence, but is an approach that can be used by parents and caregivers with all children. Attend TBRI Introduction and Overview, October 9, 2020, 9 am-11 am, at 1104 H St., Greeley, CO. Click here to register, or call 970-400-6707.

Attend TBRI Caregiver Training to Learn:

  • How trauma changes the brain
  • What’s behind difficult behavior
  • How to strengthen your attachment with your child
  • How to help your child heal through connection
  • How sensory processing issues may impact your child
  • How to empower your child to build self-regulation
  • Strategies for correcting difficult behavior

Tools you can put into practice immediately
housing

LAND DONATED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN GREELEY

On July 15, 2020, Dennis Hoshiko, principal and owner of the former North Weld Produce Company at 123 9th Ave. in Greeley, donated the property in its entirety to High Plains Housing Development Corp. to further the organization’s mission of developing affordable housing for low-to-moderate income households. The site consists of 6.94 acres and six buildings with over 90,000 sq. ft. of space. High Plains’ vision is to explore the potential to build mixed-use affordable housing at this site.

 

Jodi Hartmann, Executive Director of High Plains, explained that High Plains will immediately begin working to develop a property development steering committee comprised of organization staff and board members, community housing and services stakeholders, development professionals, and City of Greeley, business, and community leaders. “With a project of this scope, we will absolutely welcome the support, expertise, and vision of others in the community who share our passion for addressing the need for affordable housing for those who are the most at risk and vulnerable due to a lack of safe, stable, and permanent housing,” Hartmann stated. “We cannot express enough how grateful we are to Dennis for this generous, and game-changing donation which will highly accelerate our ability to address this vital housing need. He is a truly a blessing to the community and to these vulnerable populations.”

 

For more information about High Plains Housing Development Corp. or to inquire about helping with this development opportunity, please contact Jodi Hartmann at (970) 405-6072, or via e-mail at: hphousingdev@gmail.com