Overview

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Overview

• History
• Program Services
• Community Partners
• Current Supporters
• Past Supporters

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History

• Positive Connection began in 1991 as a community
  outreach project of Grace and Truth Full Gospel
  Pentecostal Church.
• Church staff and congregation members volunteered
  Intervention Services at the Phillip S. Gilliam
  Youth Services Center the primary detention
  facility for juvenile offenders in Denver.

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History, Cont.

• Positive Connection was founded in 1994 and
  received its first grant to provide Prevention
  Services to middle school girls.
• Prevention Services were offered at Cole Middle
  School and Gove Middle School.
• In 2000, Redirection Services were offered to
  girls involved in the juvenile justice system.

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History, Cont.

• Positive Connection obtained its own 501(c)3
  status in 2002 and provided Prevention,
  Intervention and Redirection Services to girls
  ages
• 9-18 years.

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Program Services

• Anger Management Classes
• Group Mentoring
• Life Skills Development Courses
• Reading Enrichment and Skill Building
• Community Service
• Youth Summer Employment

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Program Services

• Anger Management Classes
• Contracted by The Conflict Center
• 6 Week Course
• Group Mentoring
• Offered monthly with positive and caring adult
  mentors and volunteers.
• Activities are specifically geared toward female
  and adult bonding and include grooming sessions,
  craft projects, casual and social interaction.

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Program Services

• Life Skills Development Courses
• Four times a month, girls participate in a
  self-empowerment workshop.
• Includes classes in employment readiness,
  self-esteem, health and hygiene, employment
  readiness, self-sufficiency and current issues.

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Program Services

• Reading Enrichment and Skill Building
• Structured to allow girls to work independently
  and at their own pace on computerized educational
  programs.
• The majority of our participants are reading
  below grade level by at least one, two or more
  years.

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Program Services

• Community Service
• Encouraging participants to give back to the
  community and show them ways in which making
  positive contributions to the community are
  important to their own personal development and
  self-interests.
• Incorporates Community Service to participants
  who must complete Community Service work as a
  condition of sentencing.

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Program Services

• Youth Summer Employment
• Offered through the Mayors Summer Youth
  Employment Office and Safe City Diversion.
• Hires youth from 14-18 years of age.

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Program Operations

• Referral
• Intake
• Assigned Classes
• Case Management
• Program Completion
• Reporting
• Exit

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Community Partners

• Redirection
• Denver Juvenile Court Courtroom 191J
• Denver Probation
• Correctional Connections
• Safe City Diversion
• Prevention
• Bruce Randolph Middle School

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Current Supporters

• George W. Hopper Family Foundation
• Grace and Truth Church
• Private Donors
• Jared Polis Foundation

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Past Supporters

• Adolph Coors Foundation
• The National Christian Foundation
• The Piton Foundation
• Public/Private Ventures
• Rose Community Foundation
• Private Donors
• Metro Denver Black Church
• Division of Juvenile Justice through the
  Department of Safety

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Board of Directors

• Vel Garner, Chair
• Darzella Williams, Vice-Chair
• Pastor Tastonga O. Moore, President
• Frankie Briggs, Secretary
• Dorothy Jean Snoddy, Treasurer
• Charlesetta Parker
• Laurence Tarver