Summer ‘24 Update

This summer, AfterHours has been hard at work getting lunches to people who need them as well as water. Water is a huge need among people sheltering outside, especially with the scorching temps in Denver this summer. 

AfterHours has also been playing an advocacy role on behalf of our friends on the street. With increased enforcement of various anti-camping ordinances in the city, and the efforts of Mayor's office to clean up camps and get people housed, the approach of police and others has become unnecessarily aggressive.

Just last week I had a meeting with Mayor Johnston and his staff to encourage them to continue seeking creative solutions to solving homelessness in our city. I pray the Mayor's office can communicate with police effectively to encourage them to take a more humane, trauma informed approach to camp resolutions.

I also have the honor to partner with Network Coffee House to remember and memorialize our friends from the street who have died. Gerry was a long-time member of the homeless community in Denver who found housing near the end of his life. He was a whole person, a great wit, a complicated, highly intelligent man, who could sometimes be a real pain in the ass.

His memorial was well attended. Every seat in the house was filled. It was good to remember him. He will be missed.

Thank you being a part of what we do at AfterHours. We couldn't do it without you.