Recap: August 2024 Coalition Meeting

The Community Active Living Coalition gathered at the La Alma Recreation Center on August 14, 2024, with those joining online via Zoom as well. The meeting had a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) theme in honor of back to school this month. To go along with this theme and connect it back to our May meeting and Micro-Grant workshop, we featured SRTS Micro-Grant projects from our 2024 CALC Micro-Grant program.

Community gathered around tables for the start of the August meeting.

On behalf of Johnson Elementary School, Chiquita Sanders, CALC Southwest Community Connector, shared about their Bike & Roll to School Day Micro-Grant from May this year, and Priscilla Bloom, Safe Routes to School Program Manager, shared how similar Micro-Grant projects will be helpful for Walk & Roll to School Day happening this October. Christian Steward, CALC Northeast Community Connector, talked on behalf of a Micro-Grant project hosted within community for the benefit of school-aged children - the Montbello Health & Wellness Back to School Event.

Elizabeth Morales awards Alejandra Castañeda a CALC Community Champion award.

For a Micro-Grant presentation presented directly by a Micro-Grantee, Alejandra Castañeda shared about her Micro-Grant project for Skinner Middle School Bike Corral Improvements. With the Micro-Grant she supported the school in buying new bike racks, worked with Denver Public Schools facilities team to install them, and created a "Skinner Bikes" stencil so they could be spray painted along the driveway at the school to increase bike awareness and safety. We were honored to have Alejandra share, and presented her with a CALC Community Champion award for her years of dedication to community work in Northwest Denver.

After the mini presentations on SRTS Micro-grant projects we gathered together for a street design activity, focusing on our ideal designs for a safe route to school.

Ideal Safe Route to School design activity.

To close out the CALC meeting, the Denver Balloon Guy facilitated a team building exercise which helped us celebrate the teamwork it takes to reach safer streets for all!

CALC Coalition gathered around the balloon web sculpture they created.

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The next Coalition meeting is Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from 6:00-7:30pm, location TBD. As the agenda is developed for the next meeting it will be posted here: 2024 Community Active Living Coalition Meeting Agendas

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