Colorado Statewide CDBG User’s Group

Colorado municipalities and counties receiving CDBG funding from HUD meet quarterly to share information and resources. This group also problem solves collaboratively in order to better utilize federal dollars to address housing needs.

2-1-1 Advisory Board

United Way’s 2-1-1 program is a wonderful resource and referral information tool for all of Larimer County. The
2-1-1 Advisory Board provides quarterly feedback to the 2-1-1 Program Director regarding the scope and delivery of 2-1-1 services to Larimer County.

Alternatives to Violence
Safe Place Committee

In 2006, Alternatives to Violence received City of Loveland grant funding to purchase land for the construction of a domestic violence shelter. The Community Partnership Office has been involved with ATV’s Safe Place Committee to ensure the public benefit on Loveland’s investment in this project is realized. 

Larimer County is home to people who care for and respect one another.  The Family Consumer Council engages the whole Larimer County community to recognize and accept responsibility for the safety and well being of all.
Critical Success Factors:
*Less re-abuse of children
*DHS participates but community develops, facilitates and is committed to the cause
*Fewer children in foster care
*Systemize involvement of institutions in achieving these goals and services of critical success factors
*Less re-referrals
*Lower re-entry into foster care
*Timely reunification of children to their families
*Success of children staying in their own home
*Less re-referrals on Aging (adult protection) and other programs
*Develop community settlement houses/family life centers

Larimer Home Improvement Program (LHIP)
Board of Directors

Offered by the Housing Authority of the City of Loveland, LHIP is a program which provides low to no interest rate loans to income qualified families looking to repair or improve their homes.

Loveland Homeless Task Force

The Loveland Homeless Task Force is a networking group largely comprised of Loveland non-profits and the faith community that meets monthly to discuss various needs of the homeless in Loveland. The Community Partnership Office participates in these meetings. 

Murphy Center Board of Directors/Programming Committee

The Murphy Center is a county-wide, collaborative resource center in the making for families and individuals who are homeless or near homeless. To reduce the logistical chaos of multiple appointments at numerous locations, families and individuals may see staff from various agencies at one site: the Murphy Center.

There is no other single place in Larimer County where people in housing crisis can access the many resources they might need to stabilize their life. To ensure Loveland’s investment in this project is maximized, staff from the Community Partnership Office sit on the Murphy Center Board of Directors and the Murphy Center Programming Committee to address accessibility issues such as transportation for those in Loveland.

Northern Front Range Continuum of Care

The Northern Front Range Continuum of Care is a Larimer-Weld consortium of agencies that applies for HUD SuperNOFA funding together. Through the NFRCC, Loveland has secured funding for 5 transitional housing vouchers (Alternatives to Violence) and 7 permanent supportive housing units (Larimer Center for Mental Health) that provide housing to homeless persons in the community. The Community Partnership Office staff participates in the NFRCC’s bimonthly meetings.

Healthier Communities Coalition Council

The Healthier Communities Coalition of Larimer County is an alliance of people from nonprofit service agencies, education, health, government, business and the general public. HCC effects change by engaging service providers and leaders from the community in its council and committees, strategic planning activities, collaborative projects and educational forums. HCC participants are people who directly work with children, youth and families through service delivery, policy development and personal relationships.
In 2009 HCC completed a “snapshot” of how children and youth in Larimer County are doing at the beginning of the 21^st Century.  The snapshot is data compiled from a number of sources and intended to be as objective as possible, leaving interpretation to the user.  The report is divided into four sections, Demographics, Health Habits, Education, and Safe Places.  Read the full report

Pathways Past Poverty

Poverty in Larimer County has risen significantly since 2000. To address the issues and causes of poverty, the United Way has convened the Pathways Past Poverty Taskforce, a group of dedicated community members that has volunteered their time to explore eight key approaches hoped to dramatically reverse these trends. The Community Partnership Office staff have partnered with Pathways, sitting on the Policy Change Sub-Committee and the Childhood Education & Achievement Sub-Committee.

UniverCity Homeless Initiative Task Force

While the UniverCity Connections initiative is a Fort Collins project, the City of Loveland's Community Partnership Office is partnering with the UniverCity Homeless Initiative Task Force to conduct best practices research regarding successful strategies to eliminate homelessness. Due to federal homeless and/or housing resources limited in large part to metropolitan urban areas a regional strategy to secure resources might be most appropriate for northern Colorado.