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November 2020
Upcoming Events

Taming the Anxious Mind
Available anytime


Virtual Education

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Connecting Principles
Wednesday & Thursday
November 4 & 5, 2020
1:00 p.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Empowering Principles
Monday & Tuesday
November 9 & 10, 2020
9:00 a.m.

Colorado Adoption Information Class
Tuesday
November 10, 2020
6:00 p.m.

Managing Transitions, Grief, and Loss Related to COVID-19
Tuesday
November 10, 2020
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Secondary Trauma in the Workplace & the Importance of Self-Care
Tuesday
November 17, 2020
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Intro & Overview
Tuesday - Thursday
November 17-19, 2020
1:00 p.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Correcting Principles
Wednesday & Friday
November 18 & 20, 2020
1:00 p.m.

16th Annual Adoptive Family Portrait Project
2020: A Year of Unprecedented Challenges – Adoptive Families Demonstrating Resilience
Wednesday
November 18, 2020
Adoption Month Briefing Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Project Display 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Planning for the Future as a Kinship Caregiver
Thursday
November 19, 2020
9:00 a.m. – 11;00 a.m. OR 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Intro & Overview
Monday, Tuesday, & Monday
November 30, December 1 & 7, 2020
9:00 a.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Connecting Principles
Tuesday & Wednesday
December 8 & 9, 2020
1:00 p.m.

Colorado Adoption Information Class
Tuesday
December 8, 2020
6:00 p.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Empowering Principles
Tuesday & Wednesday
December 15 & 16, 2020
9:00 a.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Intro & Overview
Tuesday - Thursday
December 15 -17, 2020
1:00 p.m.

TRBI® Caregiver Training: Correcting Principles
Thursday & Friday
December 17 & 18, 2020
9:00 a.m.

Colorado Adoption Information Class
Tuesday
January 12, 2021
6:00 p.m.

Colorado Adoption Information Class
Tuesday
February 9, 2021
6:00 p.m.
November Is National Adoption Month

From the Child Welfare Information Gateway

Click here to go to National Adoption Month resources.

This year's resources focus on how to make engaging youth an everyday practice. Explore the Spread the Word tools and use the sample graphics, press releases, social media posts, and email signatures to get the word out on this year's theme: "Engage Youth: Listen & Learn."

Start the conversation in your community and join us on Facebook and Twitter by using the hashtag #NationalAdoptionMonth.

Suspect Abuse?

From the Child Welfare Information Gateway

Sometimes a friend is the first person to notice when youth experience child abuse or neglect. Share the "Help a Friend in Trouble" video with your community to provide easy-to-understand guidance on what to do if youth feel unsafe at home.

Adoption Portrait Project

Calling all families who have adopted from foster care to submit their story for Voice For Adoption's family portrait project! Your story helps spread awareness about the child welfare system while also allowing the system to improve. Click this link to share!

LEAP Applications Start Nov 1

Colorado’s Low-income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) is a federally funded program that helps eligible hard-working Colorado families, seniors and individuals pay a portion of their winter home heating costs.

The LEAP program works to keep our communities warm by providing assistance with heating costs, equipment repair and/or replacement of inoperable heating tools. While the program is not intended to pay the entire cost of home heating, it does aim to help alleviate some of the burdens that come with Colorado's colder months.

Applications will be accepted starting November 1, 2020. Click here to go to the LEAP page to see eligibility requirements and to access the online application. 

Stay-at-Home Halloween Fun

Let your kids enjoy a FREE fully virtual, immersive Halloween experience through Roblox. Kids aged 7-17 can join the iD Tech game (and bring friends!) for a haunted house obstacle courses, tech-or-treating, and more! This event offers children a safe, magical way to engage in Halloween festivities with one-of-a-kind in-game experiences.

Roblox’s online Halloween Block Party is available Friday, October 30 through Sunday, November 1. Click here to register.

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Dolls for Daughters® and Toys for Boys® Annual Toy Giveaways

Dolls for Daughters® and Toys for Boys® Annual Toy Giveaways will take place in early December. Click on the links below for the cities in which this event is being offered. Dates differ by location, so please be sure to verify the date for your city!
Protective Factors Training Series

The DPALS Program at Denver Human Services is offering a free, 6-session, virtual Protective Factors training series for parents, foster care providers, kinship providers, staff, and community members.
Protective factors are the strengths and resources that families can draw on when life gets difficult. Taking those good characteristics and building on them is a proven way to strengthen the entire family. Participants will learn about the protective factors, ways to help families build protective factors, and learn tools to use the protective factors in your work, and how to use protective factors in your parenting.

Participants will receive a certificate of completion for each 2-hour training. Virtual platform log-in information will be shared when participants register.
 
All trainings are 10:00 a.m.-noon.

Dates: 11/4, 11/12, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9. 

To register, email LeAnn Fickes: leann.fickes@denvergov.org

Emergency Diapers and Wipes

The Gabriel House at Catholic Charities supports families with young children by providing free diapers, wipes, formula, and baby food. The following locations are currently operating:

Aurora Gabriel House: Tuesday 9am to 1pm and Saturday 10am to 1:30pm
Queen of Peace Parish
13101 E Mississippi Bldg C-1020, Aurora, CO 80012
Phone: 720- 325-3216

Denver Gabriel Houses:
St. James Parish
Wednesday and Friday 9:30am to 12:30pm
1341 Oneida St, Denver, CO 80220
Phone: 303-377-1577
St. Francis de Sales
Tuesday and Saturday 9:30am-12pm
301 S Grant St, Denver, CO 80209

All Saints Church
Monday and Saturday 9:30am to 12:30pm
2559 S Federal Blvd, Denver, CO 80219

Ft. Morgan Gabriel House: 
St. Helena Parish
Friday 2pm to 6pm
816 Park St, Ft Morgan, CO 80701
Phone: 970-817-3144
Fort Collins Gabriel House:
St. Joseph's
101 N Howes St, Fort Collins, CO 80521
Thursday 2-6pm and Fridays 9am-12pm and first Saturday of the month 11am-1:30pm
Boulder Gabriel House:
Sacred Heart of Mary Church
6739 S Boulder Rd, Boulder, CO 80303
Tuesdays and Saturdays 9am-12pm
Phone: 303-449-0122

No pre-registration is required, there are no residency requirements, and all services are free. Click here for more information and to register.
Colorado Coalition of Adoptive Families
(COCAF)