Tag: Human Services
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Adams County closes human services at Aurora Service Center, directs residents to other locations
Adams County is moving human services out of the Aurora Service Center at 3155 Chambers Road and directing people who need those services to various other county locations starting Jan. 1. Services like food and medical assistance, EBT card issuance and employment and workforce programs are available at other locations, according to a county alert.…
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Northglenn residents decry planned transition home for sex offenders, mentally ill
Northglenn residents packed a meeting Wednesday to voice their opposition, often tearfully, to a panel of city, county and state leaders over a Mental Health Transitional Living Home planned for an area near an elementary school, playgrounds and a church. Some are so upset by the facility, they plan to move from Northglenn. “If this…
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Texas ‘Ghost bus’ drops off a load of immigrants, this time at Colorado state Capitol
Colorado got an unexpected delivery from the state of Texas Monday morning. A busload of immigrants just in from Texas was dropped off at the state capitol, city officials confirmed. These types of bus drop-offs are not unusual, but what is new is the location, officials said. Leaving people at the center of state government…
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Huge influx of migrants prompts Denver Mayor Michal Hancock to approve emergency activation
Hundreds of immigrants who have been arriving into the metro area since last Thursday are creating such a critical overcrowding problem in Denver’s shelters that Mayor Michael Hancock approved an emergency activation late Tuesday afternoon to bring in more resources to handle the crowds. “We were anticipating an influx due to Title 42, but this…
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Denver Health requests $5 million budget increase, records $61 million income loss
Employee turnover, adding new employees and services and a building renovation led two departments to request increases from the City of Denver in their budgets next year. Denver Health asked for $5 million, a request that came after the department planned $737,000 worth of cuts for next year. Pending the city council’s approval, the budget for…
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Colorado Springs contracting firm sold to California contracting giant
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GE Johnson Construction Co., a longtime Colorado Springs business whose recent high-profile projects include the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center and downtown’s Weidner Field, has agreed to be sold to a California company. DPR Construction, ranked in May as…
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Colorado child protective agencies still falling short despite pledges to increase staffing
Across Colorado, the county agencies charged with investigating child abuse still need hundreds more caseworkers to keep up with caseloads, according to consultants hired by the state in 2016 after widespread failures in protecting abused children. The caseworker deficiencies are laid out in a new report from the Colorado Department of Human Services, the state…