Dirt Coffee: No, it’s not coffee for worms.
On Friday mornings, the Dirt Coffee truck can be found at 2303 E. Dartmouth Ave. The truck sits outside of the Joshua School, which serves students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); some of those students may serve you coffee.
As EarthLinks enters its twentieth year of serving the Denver metro area, participants, staff, and volunteers are celebrating not only another bountiful harvest, but also the friendships blossoming within their community.
Bette Ann Jaster, OP (Order of Preachers), and Cathy Mueller, SL (Sisters of Loretto), started EarthLinks as an outreach program in 1996. They wanted to give people experiencing homelessness an opportunity to take nature trips, garden, and make arts and crafts. EarthLinks now has about 50 participants from around the Denver metro area.
By Marilyn Lindenbaum
Searching for Home, which opens on November 7, invites visitors to experience the bigger picture of homelessness and how it affects all of us through the lens of our state’s boom-and-bust economic and social history.
This month, Searching for Home: Homelessness in Colorado History opens at the History Colorado Center. The new exhibit features artifacts like Baby Doe Tabor’s dress, a former Miss Colorado’s pageant sash, and a panhandler’s makeshift cardboard sign. What do these objects have in common?
By Sarah Ford
After months of debate, the Colorado Springs City Council has decided to postpone the vote on a proposal to ban sitting or lying on streets and sidewalks in downtown Colorado Springs.
By Adam Sennott
For decades laws criminalizing homelessness have been on the rise, but recent statements from the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development might stop this trend.
In recent summers, the Denver Police have regularly swept the banks of the Platte River, rousting homeless people who have violated the city’s ordinance against unauthorized camping and removing them and their belongings.
By Matt Davidson, VOICE vendor
Just the other day, on a very chilly morning, I was out of money and out of newspapers. It was a Sunday, so I couldn’t go get more papers, and I was cold. My jacket was doing its job by keeping my arms and chest warm, but my ears and head were cold, as I didn’t have a cap.
What does homelessness look like?
When you picture homelessness, you might get a mental image of the people waiting outside the Denver Rescue Mission’s Lawrence Street Shelter. Maybe you picture a man, 40-60 years old, bearded, and in dirty or disheveled clothing. That’s certainly what many people still picture when they think of homelessness.