Growing Home

Growing Home is cultivating a thriving, healthy, and equitable North Metro Denver by connecting people to services and programs to drive community action in the areas of food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability. Growing Home encourages participant leadership and helps families achieve long-term stability and success.  

Growing Home's Core Programs and Impact Areas:

Food

• Food Pantry – A community resource open 5 days/week that uses a choice model whereby participants select the items that best fit the needs of their family. 
• Community Garden – A collaboration between GH participants, community members, and the City of Westminster. In 2021, the garden produced over 2,000 lbs. of fresh produce for the community.

Housing

• Housing Stability – A case management program that pairs individualized goal setting and action planning with rent/mortgage/utility assistance as needed. 
• Westchester Apartments - 20 affordable housing units owned by GH. 

Parenting Education

• Parents as Teachers – A nationally recognized program offering caregivers a network of support and tools that supports the social, emotional, and mental development of their young children (ages 0-5).

Lifelong Stability

• Collaborative Coaching – An evidence based coaching program that helps participants to name, set, and achieve goals meaningful to both them and the long-term stability of their families.
• Resource Navigation – Assists individual participants by connecting them with internal supports and providing warm referrals, as needed, to external partners. 

Connecting Community

• Growing Home staff, participants, and neighbors organizing to address the most pressing issues in the area related to food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability with the goal of dismantling the barriers to community thriving.