PRESIDENT AND CEO KAREN FOX ELWELL PRESENTS STATE OF THE ORGANIZATION Delwest's Baker School Apartments was the site of Growing Home's annual "State of the Organization" reception on February 26, 2019. Baker School Apartments is a new, affordable-housing complex located at 64th Avenue and Lowell Street, where Growing Home has been invited as the sole nonprofit [...]
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Growing Home has teamed up with the Red Rocks Community College Physician Assistant Program and Centura Health to provide increased access to health care through Growing Home's medical clinic. This clinic is free to uninsured families in need of basic medical care. Right now the clinic is open on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of [...]
Growing Home's Board of Directors has appointed Karen Fox Elwell as its new CEO. Karen replaces the previous CEO, who left in August of 2017. Karen is a licensed social worker with a Bachelor of Arts in Child Development from Tufts University and a Masters in Social Work and Masters in Business Administration from the [...]
Listen to Growing Home's Teva Sienicki and Pell Fender discuss Growing Home's work on KUNC radio
On July 18, Growing Home's Board of Directors appointed Anita Deshommes Interim CEO, replacing outgoing President and CEO Teva Sienicki, whose last day will be August 1. Anita joined Growing Home in 2001, as the organization's second employee. A graduate of Metro State (with a Bachelors in Social Work), and holding an MBA from Colorado [...]
COLORADO MATTERS BY ANDREA DUKAKISDEC 15, 2015 LISTEN Audio: Teva Sienicki, Kent Replogle And Curtis Garcia Speak With Ryan Warner For the last year, CPR News has covered the issue of children living in poverty, reporting on the challenges their families face. On Colorado Matters, we asked three people dedicated to helping those who've fallen on hard [...]
Executive Summary: Why We Started In 2014 Growing Home launched the “Blocks of Hope” collective impact initiative in the neighborhood surrounding Tennyson Knolls Elementary School. As a neighborhood struggles with high concentrations of poverty and low student achievement, Growing Home decided to concentrate services in the neighborhood to ensure more kids and families have opportunities [...]
