Providing Services Where Families Spend Their Time
Recognizing that one of the best ways to decrease barriers for families in accessing services is to bring those services into the community, ECPAC has been working with community partners since 2019 towards integrated community resource hubs with hopes to have these available in multiple locations in Adams County.
Due to Commerce City being under-resourced and having a high number of organizational and family partners eager to work together, the Commerce City Community Campus (C4) at South Platte Crossing has become a reality! ECPAC moved into this space in late August of 2021 and many amazing partners are on campus as well! Flyer with information about ECPAC’s Family Resource and Support Center can be found here.
ECPAC also co-locates in Brighton at Almost Home’s Housing Navigation Center one day per week. Flyer with more information can be found here.
Additionally, ECPAC is one of many community partners sharing space at the Adams County Human Service office in effort to provide seamless referrals to families and connect them to supports more efficiently and quickly. Video of Community Partners at DHS 2019.
ECPAC supports families impacted by substance use.
“I am very grateful to all the people for your dedication to the class, time, effort and that you placed such importance in it so that myself and my children were nourished and we can have a better society.”
“You’ve helped me a lot so that I can help my children.”
– Families working with ECPAC
Work to date:
- ECPAC is leading the Commerce City Services Alignment Action Team and together are working to design and implement the Commerce City Community Campus (C4) Hub at the South Platte Crossing Building. We are using the results of our Trauma Informed Design assessment (through generous funding from CO Access) in part to guide our work.
- ECPAC is working with other cities to consider the expansion of Community Resource Hubs in future years (funding permitting).