Denver Streets Partnership meeting
Friday March 6 9am-10:30 am
Downtown Denver Partnership, 1515 Arapahoe Street, Denver
DSP meets monthly at a variety of locations. This month the agenda included a presentation by the Denver Police Dept on the use of automatic enforcement – those vans that you see parked on busy roads, and the cameras that document red light runners. Under Policy & Advocacy, the topics were funding for transportation, RTD legislation, the Climate Change Task Force, the Bike Lane bill, and the American Heart Association poll. We reviewed two past events – the Transit Love In and the merger of WalkDenver and Bicycle Colorado. There are lots of upcoming events which can be found on the DSP website.
The next meeting will be on Friday April 3 from 9-10:30 at Downtown Denver Partnership, 1515 Arapahoe Street, Denver
For the last 40 years, 9Health and 9NEWS have maintained a unique partnership focused on keeping Colorado healthy through preventive care and health awareness. Today, we are taking proactive steps to bring our community together and share information to keep Colorado healthy amid growing public interest in COVID-19, otherwise known as the coronavirus.
We have made the decision to postpone the spring 9Health Fairs while pursuing options for alternate screening opportunities. We are working together with our partners to implement the following:
➔ 9NEWS and 9Health will be hosting virtual town halls to help the community separate fact from fiction. Our approach is “facts not fiction,” which means carefully vetting information, focusing on facts and providing context and perspective. We will use interactive Q&A, social media and other digital channels to answer questions and empower the community.
➔ 9Health is pursuing alternative screening options. We know that Colorado communities across the state rely on the 9Health Fair for free/affordable health screenings. In the wake of postponing our spring fairs to later this year, we are looking into options that allow 9Health Fair attendees to continue to receive the same levels of health awareness. We will provide additional information as soon as it is available. If you have already registered for a 9Health Fair, we will send you information via email in the coming days about your options.
➔ We are launching a 9Health-specific digital site. This public-facing digital site—https://www.9healthfair.org/news/coronavirus-covid-19/— will keep the general public and 9Health Fair volunteers up-to-speed with information, virtual town halls, new fair dates, and other information on keeping Colorado healthy.
➔ Through this partnership, we will keep the public informed. 9NEWS is our committed partner in helping us inform the community on the facts and steps people can take to stay healthy. Together we have launched a new 9Health expert, Dr. Payal Kohli, and you will get to know her well in the coming weeks as we increase her presence on all 9NEWS and 9Health platforms.
Most importantly, we remain committed to our mission of advancing health awareness across Colorado and providing people with the tools they need to take responsibility for their own health. With the initiatives outlined in this plan, we are moving swiftly, but thoughtfully, to ensure we play a leading role in keeping Colorado healthy together.
Gary Drews
CEO & President
9Health
Every single person who completes the Census qualifies the state of Colorado for more funding for public services every year for the next ten years. Simply put, when you complete the Census, you ensure that our state receives more money.
• The Census is conducted every 10 years, and the information gathered from the Census informs decisions about policy, health care, education, and tens of other public services.
• The Census takes about 10 minutes to complete, as there are only 9 questions to answer.
• If even 1% of Colorado’s population goes uncounted, that’s $63 million dollars our state will not be given over the course of the next decade.
• We will be using the grant to make sure that every disabled adult in the region is aware of the census, understands why it is important and has the tools and support they need to respond.
Take the Census in three different formats starting March 12:
1. Online at https://22census.gov/
2. By paper via a form that will be sent to your physical address by the U.S. Postal Service.
3. By telephone – Cellular or Landline: 800-923-8282
Video by Open Media Foundation and CCDC information regarding the importance of participating in the Census 2020
At the Center for Disability Rights, we have been monitoring the spread of COVID-19 and taking steps to prepare locally. Last week, the day after officials from the Centers for Disease Control said that Americans should prepare for the spread of the Coronavirus in communities across the country, we posted a blog of Action Steps for Attendant Service Users in Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) http://cdrnys.org/blog/programs-services/action-steps-for-attendant-service-users-in-response-to-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/.
Today our management team finalized the first version of an overarching organizational policy to respond to COVID-19. Although we are bound together by the same mission, we are a large organization with a diverse staff working in very different circumstances. This organizational policy is intended to support individual managers in developing their own operational plans to protect the health and lives of our consumers and staff. We are sharing this policy on our website as a way to communicate with our consumers and staff that we are taking COVID-19 seriously.
We are sharing it with you as a resource for others in the Independent Living network to support you in developing your own policies to respond to COVID-19. Based on their local circumstances, Centers for Independent Living across the country may be in very different places with regard to COVID-19. We appreciate feedback from folks about our policy because we know that it will need to change as circumstances do.
Link to CDR blog on our policy:
http://cdrnys.org/blog/uncategorized/policy-to-limit-the-spread-of-the-flu-covid-19-and-other-viruses/
Link to PDF of CDR Policy to Limit the Spread of the Flu, COVID-19 and Other Viruses:
http://cdrnys.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Policy-to-Limit-the-Spread-of-the-Flu-COVID-19-and-other-viruses.pdf
Women from all across the state of Colorado gathered at the Capitol on March 5th to introduce themselves to their legislators and to watch the House and Senate in action.
This day of education was hosted by The Women’s Foundation of Colorado, a nonprofit organization who strives to catalyze communities to advance and accelerate economic opportunities for Colorado women and their families. Our gracious hosts used the morning to educate the women in the room about a few bills that their foundation is focusing on this session, then they escorted us around the Capitol to watch our representatives as they discussed bills on the House and Senate floors, as well as in smaller committees.
The best portion of the day was watching strong women from far and wide gathering to raise their voices. There was excitement, exchanging of knowledge, and a good attitude within the group. It will be interesting to watch how the bills The Women’s Foundation of Colorado are supporting progress throughout this legislative session.
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