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St. Anthony North Hospital - Growing Home
Growing Home is a volunteer-driven community organization addressing homelessness, hunger and opportunities for at-risk children. Programs include an Interfaith Family Shelter, Homeless Prevention, an after-school program, a food pantry with hygiene items, health care services, educational classes and a community garden. St. Anthony North serves as the host site for the shelter program and helps the food pantry with food drives. Growing Home brings together diverse community congregations, a hospital, businesses, schools and more than 1,500 volunteers to help children and their families.
What is it?
Growing Home is a volunteer-driven community organization addressing homelessness, hunger and opportunities for at-risk children. Programs include an Interfaith Family Shelter, Homeless Prevention, an after-school program, a food pantry with hygiene items, health care services, educational classes and a community garden. St. Anthony North serves as the host site for the shelter program and helps the food pantry with food drives. Growing Home brings together diverse community congregations, a hospital, businesses, schools and more than 1,500 volunteers to help children and their families.
Who is it for?
Families in need throughout the Denver metro area.
Why do they do it?
More than half of the homeless in the Denver metro area are families with children.
Impact
Seventy-five percent of homeless families that complete the shelter program move into stable housing and 90 percent of participants learn new parenting techniques. In-home parent education has been provided to 100 families with kids ages zero to three, and 1,500 three-day food boxes have been distributed.
Contact: Kathleen Drozda
Pastoral Nurse Coordinator
Telephone: 303-426-2266
E-mail: kathleendrozda@centura.org
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