Mile High United Way is all about people. We are committed to helping people of all ages, in every stage of their lives, through three interconnected areas of change: School Readiness, Youth Success and Adult Self Sufficiency.
Our team of expert story tellers including 7News anchor Anne Trujillo, 9News anchor Bazi Kanani and CBS4 news anchor Jim Benemann bring you three stories of real people. People living better lives thanks to the safety net of support provided by Mile High United Way programs, services, community partners and generous donors just like you. They are a single dad and his three girls, a high school student and her mentor and a formerly homeless mom with a second chance at life.
Daniel Perez lost his wife in 2006. His three daughters lost their mother. Suddenly, Daniel was a single parent. He needed help.
Thanks to Mile High United Way and its community partner Warren Village, he found that help.
High quality early education and childcare kept his girls focused, engaged and supported when they needed it most. Now, Daniel says, they are succeeding in school like never before.
Mile High United Way’s School Readiness Initiative provides thousands of children of low-income-families access to high quality early education, their teachers with on-going training to improve their knowledge and skills and much more.
Fatima Kiass and Yvette DeSilvre can and do talk to each other about anything. And, that’s just the way it should be.
Yvette is Fatima’s mentor. The pair met three years ago when Fatima says she felt lost and confused. Family stresses left her unable to focus on school and look forward to making plans for her future.
But that all changed thanks to Colorado Youth At Risk, a Mile High United Way supported youth mentoring organization.
Youth mentoring is a key focus of Mile High United Way’s Youth Success Initiative, which each year provides thousands of students access to mentoring, quality after school programs, tutoring and gang and violence intervention programs.
Gabriella Antalek says she and her five-year-old daughter Bellamia are finally home.
For years, Gabriella battled drug and alcohol addiction. She was homeless and unable to take care of her children. Then she became sober and found a second chance at life.
Through a program at the Denver Rescue Mission’s Champa House, Gabriella is working her way to self sufficiency.
Mile High United Way’s Adult Self Sufficiency Initiative is helping people like Gabriella every day by providing job training and workforce development, financial education and savings programs and, through a collaboration with Denver’s Road Home, services for those who have or are experiencing homelessness.
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