Partner Agency Overviews
American Red Cross, Pikes Peak Chapter
• Responds to disasters and initiates disaster
recovery and services
• Educates for emergency preparedness and offers
CPR and first aid classes
• Provides transitional housing and life-skills
training to the homeless
Care & Share Food Bank
• Provides emergency and supplemental food to
the food insecure and hungry
• Distributes 6.7 million pounds of food in Southern
Colorado
• Supports nutrition programs for children, elderly
and chronically ill
Ecumenical Social Ministries
• Prevents families from becoming homeless or
jobless and meets basic life needs
• Pays for prescription medications and medical
needs of low-income and indigent clients
• Offers mental health triage services and long-range
planning for economic stabilization
Griffith Centers For Children, Chins Up Youth &
Family Services
• Provides crisis respite care and long-term and
therapeutic foster homes
• Offers family preservation programs, shared
family care and case management
• Recruits and trains qualified, caring foster
care givers and adoptive parents
Marian House, Catholic Charities
• Serves the elderly, disabled, working poor and
homeless
• Serves daily nutritious, hot meals at the soup
kitchen
• Offers on-site medical clinic and drop-in services
to meet basic needs and hygiene
Northern Churches Care
• Alleviates problems of short-term crisis with
rental, medical and transportation assistance
• Involved with an extensive resource network
of nonprofit agencies and churches
• Offers guidance, counseling, legal assistance
and programs for children
Peak Vista Community Health Centers
• Provides family health, prenatal, birthing,
dental, specialty and immediate care
• Gives dental care, and urgent and primary care
to uninsured children
• Offers critically needed specialty care to indigent
patients and eye care to seniors
Pikes Peak Community Action Agency
• Stabilizes families in crisis by providing basic
life needs and childcare assistance
• Provides personal development programs, job
training and budget counseling
• Offers clients matched savings accounts for
housing, education and small businesses
The Salvation Army
• Offers social services rehabilitation and outreach
to families, youth and seniors
• Has programs for the homeless who have no alternative
solutions for help
• Responds to disasters and offers relief to victims
Silver Key Senior Services
• Promotes the well-being and self sufficiency
of the elderly to age with dignity
• Assists with housing, medical needs, personal
care and home improvements
• Delivers meals, transports the elderly and offers
companionship
Southeast Family Center Armed Services YMCA
• Serves military families in enlisted ranks with
crisis prevention and stress reduction
• Provides low cost or no cost memberships and
programs for families of a deployed military
• Offers programs and classes on budgeting, parenting,
healthy cooking and wellness
Tri-Lakes Cares
• Supports families and the disabled with resources
to keep them in their homes
• Assists the jobless or laid off and the mentally
or physically disabled
• Offers emergency financial assistance and has
a pantry of household goods and food
Urban Peak
• Serves homeless and runaway youth by encouraging
them to turn their lives around
• Stabilizes youth by helping them acquire skills
to obtain education, jobs and housing
• Has a transitional housing program with supportive,
expanded services in the community
Westside CARES
• Serves nearly 7,000 adults, children and families
who live on the west side of El Paso County
• Provides emergency assistance with rent, utilities,
food, clothes, bus passes, eye exams and glasses, school
supplies and laundry
• Offers nursing care, medications and guidance
for congregational health programs |
