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SVC began developing a community land trust in 2001. With TA help from
land trust expert Jeff Yegian, who is being paid through a TA grant
from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, leaders have made good progress in
the past year. In January 2003, leaders secured their 501-c3 IRS status.
Through
a grant from the Piton Foundation, SVC resident leaders have joined
with Fairview school officials to kick off a 5 year Early Childhood
Education program for the Sun Valley community.
Teachers
and staff at Fairview Elementary School participated in a MOP/PICO
(Pacific Institute For Community Organization) led training for teacher
home visiting in 2002. Essentially, the program instructs teachers on
how to conduct home visits with the families of their students in an
effort to break down isolation and separation between the school and
families and to offer some ideas in the home on how to improve school
performance. PICO's work in California around teacher home visits has
led to better attendance, improved behavior in school, better relations
between teachers and families, and better test scores. In 2003
approximately 90% of the teachers participated actively in the program
with outreach to their students and families. The greatest learning so
far is that teachers and the principal are seeing better classroom
management and parent participation. Teachers are also learning about
the home life of their students and feel the process is breaking down
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Teachers
at Fairview Elementary also received an excellent story on their
teacher home visiting program in the Rocky Mt. News in September.
Principal Norma Giron credits the home visiting program as well as
other programs with helping to pull Fairview 's CSAP (double digit
gains on 4 of the 6 CSAP tests) scores up significantly in the past
year.
The Sun Valley Coalition (SVC)
held a public meeting with Sal Carpio, the Executive Director of the
Denver Housing Authority, and Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman to
discuss the possibility of transforming an underutilized DHA
maintenance building into a community center, housing a police
substation, a Laundromat, a computer lab, and other useful facilities
for Sun Valley residents.
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The
meeting, which took place on March 8 at the Sun Valley Church, drew in
85 Sun Valley residents who showed up to lend their support. In
addition, 160 residents signed a petition prior to the meeting to voice
their support for the SVC's plan. The idea for the new use of the
building, which is located at 10 th and Decatur, took shape around
November of 2002, after the SVC heard residents talk about the need for
increased police presence, for a secure laundry facility, and for a
place to house the Sun Valley Learning Technology Project. Chief
Whitman pledged support but DHA was ultimately a roadblock to moving
forward with this proposal in 2003.
Despite
this roadblock, residents did secure, in September, a commitment from
Police Commander Gallagher to open a police storefront in Decatur
Place. The sub-station was installed in early January 2004!
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Crime: Though the crime rate remains high in Sun Valley, the crime rate went down 12% in 2002.
SVC
residents also secured funding from HANDS to build a pocket park across
from Decatur Place in 2003. Construction of the park will be completed
in the spring/summer of 2004.
SVC
residents also finalized plans for a major traffic safety renovation of
Decatur Street. This was the result of many meetings with traffic
engineering and HANDS staff to first create a comprehensive traffic
plan to priority implementation strategies. The first draft of the
plans were completed in late 2003 which will result in a series of
bulb-outs and traffic Islands along Decatur to be built in the summer
of 2004.
SVC
leaders also worked with the Technology Project which saw its first
graduating class of students from the Technology Project who each
received a computer for their families.
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MOP Member Organizations in 2007
Schools
1. Bruce Randolph Middle School (Denver)
2. Cole Middle School (Denver)
3. Harrington Elementary School (Denver)
4. Mitchell Elementary School (Denver)
5. Smedley Elementary School (Denver)
6. Swansea Elementary School (Denver)
7. West High School (Denver)
8. Whittier Elementary School (Denver)
9. Wyatt-Edison Charter School (Denver)
Churches
10. 10:30 Catholic Community (Denver)
11. First Mennonite (Denver)
12. His Love Fellowship (Denver)
13. Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church (Northglenn)
14. King Baptist Church (Denver)
15. Mile Hi Ministries (Denver)
16. Montview Blvd. Presbyterian Church (Denver)
17. Our Lady Mother of the Church (Catholic) (Commerce City)
18. Our Savior’s Lutheran Church (Denver)
19. People’s Presbyterian Church (Denver)
20. Queen of Peace Catholic Church (Aurora)
21. St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church (Denver)
22. St. Dominic Catholic Church (Denver)
23. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church (Denver)
24. St. Pius X Catholic Church (Aurora)
25. St. Therese Catholic Church (Aurora)
26. University Park United Methodist Church (Denver)
Youth
27. Aurora Youth (Aurora)
28. Bruce Randolph Middle School (Denver)
29. CIS Youth (Denver)
30. City-wide Youth Coalition (Denver)
30. Cole Youth: College for the Future (Denver)
31. Regis University (Denver)
32. Sun Valley Youth Coalition (Denver)
33. Voices Heard Committee/West High School (Denver)
34. The Bridge Project Youth (Denver)
35. University of Denver Youth (Denver)
Neighborhood
36. Sun Valley Coalition (Denver)
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