Community Collaborations
DASHR is first and foremost a coalition of different groups and individuals who are invested and already engaged in transforming safety. We have different groups that are represented as well as others that we support. We are also part of collaborative efforts in Denver and around the state to expand the work of transforming safety and creating new responses to issues in the community.
Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger
DASHR is a proud member and endorser of the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger. The Blueprint is a collaboration of state and local agencies, administrations, nonprofits, and community organizations focused on ending hunger within five years. In partnership with the Blueprint, we have launched a truth-telling effort regarding food insecurity which will span the entire state of Colorado and foster solutions to confront systemic change in our food systems and foster transformative ideas. DASHR believes that meeting individual basic needs, such as hunger, is a critical way to ensure better health and safety. Learn more at endhungerco.org
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Counselors Not Cops
DASHR is supportive of an effort led by Padres and Jovenes Unidos and Black Lives Matter 5280 to create other ways to navigate discipline in schools without using police. The effort had the goal of getting school resource officers out of Denver Public Schools by 2020 and instead funding counselors and supporting restorative practices. The DPS board voted to remove SRO’s in June 2020 and we continue to support confronting the narrative of DPS and driving SRO’s out of other districts as well. We believe restorative practices are an effective tool to utilize rather than disciplinary measures both in schools, and more broadly in the community.
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Community Restorative Justice
Since 2018, DASHR has been helping to facilitate conversations between the Denver District Attorney’s Office, public defenders, and community nonprofit The Conflict Center, which focuses on restorative practices. We are working together to create a process in which the Denver DA’s office exports cases to The Conflict Center for a restorative justice process rather than a criminal proceeding. The program launched in 2019. DASHR serves on the advisory body for this program and continues to advocate for further inclusion of the community voices and impacted people and the addition of other community-based organizations to be part of the oversight.
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Denver Action Medic Network
Black Lives Matter 5280
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