What is N.E.W.? 

National Expungement Week (N.E.W.) is a week of events across the U.S. that offers expungement and other forms of legal relief to some of the 77 million Americans with convictions on their records. These convictions can restrict access to housing, employment, education, public assistance, and voting rights long after sentences have been served.

nationalexpungementweek.org

Who is Expunge Colorado?
A Colorado newly formed 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to providing education, training, consultation, and free access to legal services for record sealing and expungement of eligible criminal cases in Colorado.

expungecolorado.org

Contact Melanie Rose Rogers at expungeco@gmail.com or 719-966-7083 for more information or for questions.

Click on the button below to find a list of transportation resources in your area!

Apply for Colorado P-EBT
P-EBT provides families with children eligible for free or reduced-price school meals with funds to help buy food since schools were closed this Spring due to the pandemic. You can receive up to $279 per eligible child to stretch your food budget.
For more information, visit their website: https://coloradopeak.secure.force.com/PEBT

COVID-19 Food Resource Page

Information about our statewide Food Resource Hotline, school meal locations, food pantries, updates on vital nutrition programs, like SNAP and WIC, and additional resources from partners.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

We can all help prevent suicide. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.

1-800-273-8255

Options For Deaf + Hard of Hearing

For TTY Users: Use your preferred relay service or dial 711 then 1-800-273-8255.

IMAlive

IMALIVE is a program of the Kristin Brooks Hope Center (KBHC), a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

Our focus is suicide intervention, prevention, awareness, and education.

We provide help and hope through online crisis chat.

Have questions about accessible voting? Need help registering to vote? Not sure where to drop off your ballot? Join us for this workshop and we can help answer your questions! 

Reasonable accommodations will be available - please email rosemary@atlantiscommunity.org to submit requests.

As of 9/22/2020: 65,399 cases

2,018 deaths among cases
(1,914 due to COVID-19)

To read more use this website: https://covid19.colorado.gov/covid-19-data

Gov. Jared Polis has extended the mandatory statewide mask order for another 30 days and will expire October 12, 2020.

Gov. Jared Polis has extended an executive order through September 30th that requires that Colorado landlords must, for at least one more month, give tenants 30 days’ notice before pursuing evictions.

On August 26, 2020, Governor Jared Polis issued Executive Order B2020 006 to establish a temporary task force with the Department of Local Affairs that examines housing instability and works to prevent evictions due to COVID-19 hardship.

Exposure notifications: iPhone and Android will soon have an exposure notification feature to alert you when you may have been exposed to COVID-19.

• The Chronicles Peer Support:

  First and third Thursdays of the month from 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT). **September 3rd & 17th 2020**

• Self-Empowerment Peer Group:
  Every Thursday, from 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT).
  

• Youth Connect Call:
  Every Friday, from 1:00-2:00pm (MT).

• Art Group:
  First Wednesdays of the month, from 10:00am-12:00pm (MT).
  

Colorado Sled Hockey is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1995 and in 1996 was the first sled hockey team sponsored by an NHL affiliate. We are dedicated to providing a competitive environment to foster independence and elevate social interaction through hockey.

Visionaries (blind hockey organization), and Aces Hockey Academy are partnering to do monthly adaptive skates.

• Oct Sessions: 8:15am to 9:15am MST on Oct 9 & 23
  • Oct: 9^th: Blind Hockey
    • Cost is free
  • Oct 23: Sled Hockey
    • Cost is free
    • The Colorado Sled Avalanche will provide sleds/gear
    • https://www.coloradosledhockey.org/
• Adaptive events will be held at:
  • The Ice Ranch @ 841 South Park Dr, Littleton, CO 80120

To be added to the group send an email to
reneewalbert@gmail.com
with Drum and Drinks in the subject line.

All Bodies Deserve: Creating The Future of Us

This coloring book, All Bodies Deserve: Creating the Future of Us, sparks conversation and creativity with prompts to get you, your family, and community thinking about changes that are worth imagining and making come true. Eight diverse artists were commissioned to illustrate coloring pages for
All Bodies Deserve: Creating the Future of Us, showing what this future looks like to them.