Helping youth in Chaffee County share their stories as a way to advocate for community education and acceptance, especially as it pertains to current health disparities and barriers facing minority demographics of youth.
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We Are Chaffee is working in collaboration with Partnership for Community Action, the Chaffee County Youth Alliance, and Family & Youth Initiatives to promote positive youth development within our county. The inclusion of We Are Chaffee in this effort is centered around the current challenges that face our local youth, particularly certain minority demographics that face disparities in health outcomes. These challenges include feeling a sense of belonging and acceptance in both their families and the larger community, experiencing bullying and harassment, having access to fun, healthy, and meaningful activities, and securing future housing and meaningful work to support them here in Chaffee County as adults.
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We Are Chaffee's Future Animation Project
Please take a moment to watch the animation video below, celebrating local youth and their work creating animated stories about their life in Chaffee county.
Thank you to Horizons Exploratory Academy and Sanctum Drawing School for their partnership.
We Are Chaffee's Future Collage
PAs an introduction to We Are Chaffee’s Future, we have compiled photos of youth who may be our future community leaders, business owners, parents, police officers, teachers, health professionals, and more. Let’s work together to identify and key indicators that we can change to ensure that our investment in all of our youth will lead to them having opportunity, and the desire, to stay in Chaffee County.
​​​We Are Chaffee's Future has been selected to participate in a planning grant for Belonging Colorado that is supported by the Denver Foundation. The purpose of this grant is to develop projects that will enhance the feeling of belonging within community members and through intergenerational work with a focus on marginalized youth.
We invite you to follow We Are Chaffee to stay updated on progress with We Are Chaffee’s Future and other programs by signing up for the We Are Chaffee monthly newsletter or by following We Are Chaffee on Facebook and/or Instagram.
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Learn more about the Chaffee County Youth Alliance or Family & Youth Initiatives at www.chaffeecountyfyi.org/community-based-prevention and Partnership for Community Action at https://www.gopfca.com/
