DHS Sets Strategy for a Healthy and Connected Denver
Denver Human Services recently announced Human Together, a bold new vision for a Denver community where all people are connected, supported, safe, and well. The three-year framework identifies goals and strategies that include increasing equity and access, ensuring safety and wellness, improving connectivity, encouraging economic resilience, and supporting a healthy and connected workforce.
As an example of how the vision is already taking shape, DHS formally launched a new community-focused program to support and connect with immigrants and refugees. Key components of the program include offering the Denver Public Library’s Plaza Program at Human Services locations to assist immigrants and refugees with citizenship classes, conversational English, art therapy, and resource navigation. The program also includes convening discussions around housing equity and accessibility across the region for immigrants and refugees, and ongoing events in the community like Family Preparedness classes.
Human Together will inform and guide Denver Human Services’ work over the next three years and will serve as a tool to continue developing strategic partnerships, best practices and employee and client engagement, including ways to address the root causes leading to the need for services.
A strategy for creating equity and access includes reducing stigma around asking for help when you need it. To begin that effort, DHS also unveiled its new #BeHuman brand campaign.The campaign features real stories from employees, customers, and residents and a new, easier-to-navigate website. The campaign’s key messages of “Let’s Start Where You Are,” and “Together, We’ve Got This,” are meant to evoke the sense of a community that is accepting and supportive, not judgmental or critical of your situation.
Also see Caring for Colorado http://caringforcolorado.org/about-us/mission-vision-guiding-principles
Denver Cares: https://www.denverhealth.org/services/community-health/denver-cares-detox-drug-alcohol-rehab
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