Creating Together

Impact Teams

We aim to establish meaningful co-creation that incorporates the perspectives of community, the city, and the school district at all stages in the process, informed and guided by youth. We do this through impact teams. The current impact teams are:

  • Measure & Monitor Success: Measure the success of this work and utilize data to inform resource allocation decisions and strategy, in alignment with CDC framework and associated risk and protective factors.

  • Develop Systems for Collaboration: Understand what resources are available across school district, city, and community partners, map those resources into tiers, determine how to best trigger referrals, and then implement the newly designed systems. 

  • Coordinate Collaborative Fundraising: Determine process for collaborative fundraising and distribution of those funds.  Establish a community panel and associated guidelines for decision-making, procedures for ensuring equity and fairness. 

  • Promote Program Quality & Access: Enable youth to determine what programs will serve them best, remove barriers that prevent those programs from working with schools, enable program quality evaluation and continuous improvement.

What Is An Impact Team?

Yes, a place to:

  • Request specific support from others deeply engaged in youth violence prevention work in your area

  • Solicit advice on problems of practice you are experiencing, leaning on our collective knowledge and expertise to gain perspective on race and other equity-related issues

  • Commit to challenge and disrupt systems of oppression that impact youth violence and co-create equitable systems that address and support youth violence prevention

  • Determine where resourcing is a barrier to action and coordinate fundraising efforts

No, not a place to:

  • Drive your work. Your expertise and leadership is both respected and needed.  Your work should continue.  We are here to help.

  • Admire the problem.  You are here because you are part of the solution; this group aims to coordinate collective action.

  • Respond to crisis. We are here to maintain focus on long-term strategies that get at the root causes of youth violence.  Crisis response is handled by other groups.

Is An Impact Team Right For You?

These are generally most appropriate for people who are in the following situation:

  • Your day-job is youth violence prevention / the promotion of youth resilience

  • You are interested in driving the outcomes in the designated area citywide using stakeholder feedback

  • You can commit to the time required:

    • 1 hour once a month for virtual meetings

    • 5 hours once a quarter for Denver Resilience Coalition Meetings

    • Follow ups between meetings aligned with your day job