Member Programs: Colorado Campus Compact

Member Programs

AmeriCorps*VISTA Program, ACCESS Colorado

In collaboration with the Corporation for National and Community Service, Colorado Campus Compact has launched ACCESS Colorado, a statewide initiative designed to address retention and post-secondary education issues in November. With the support of a team of AmeriCorps*VISTA members, ACCESS Colorado aims to provide Colorado communities with the resources and infrastructure needed to find sustainable solutions to identified educational issues. To reach this end, ACCESS Colorado AmeriCorps*VISTA members will work with Colorado colleges and universities to develop civic education programs in low-achieving high schools, as well as forge partnerships through community-based dialogues and events. Nine geographical regions across Colorado will participate in year one (November 2007-November 2008) of the three-year initiative.
For more information about the ACCESS Colorado initiative, please contact Megan Swanson at mswnsn@regis.edu or Elaina Verveer at everveer@regis.edu

UCAN Serve

The UCAN Serve AmeriCorps program is a regional effort to engage students in meaningful service with local communities. UCAN Serve strengthens campus and community partnerships by channeling student service into nonprofit and government agencies serving high need, community priority areas.
UCAN Serve is the largest higher education AmeriCorps program in the country, providing $5.4 million annually in student service scholarships.

Other Featured Programs:

Regis University Center for Service Learning

With a goal, to not only experience and gain a deeper understanding of the voices of the marginalized in our society, but also to learn about and gain the tools through which the inequitable systems and structures of society can be challenged and changed, Regis University's Center for Service learning has many programs including the following that have been captured for us by Colorado Film School Students:

Romero House: Provides 5-6 students an opportunity to live in an intentional community and share in an experience of service, faith, commitment to social justice, and the desire to live simply. The community organizes its own social justice exploration, spiritual reflection, social activities, house responsibilities, and meals. Community decisions are made by a process of group discernment and consensus.

Launch in external player

Romero House is a Regis University student residence located in the Highlands Neighborhood of Northwest Denver, a predominately Hispanic neighborhood. Inspired by the lives and sacrifices of Jesuits working with the poor in Central America, Fr. Vince O’Flaherty, S.J., established Romero House in 1992 as an opportunity for students to experience the connections between one’s faith, education, and the life experience of the poor.
An Intentional Community

Romero House is an intentional community whose spirit relies upon the commitment of all its members to openly give and receive support.

The Romero House community is not simply a living arrangement with roommates. Rather, the common goal of all members is to nurture spiritual growth in one another and to support each other while striving for a deeper understanding of social justice. Romero House is also a place of hospitality, open to both the Regis community and to friends and family. Get involved or find out more

Colorado Film School
The Colorado Student Documentary Project empowers students to create a voice for our most valued community collaborations - our not for profit organizations through the fresh eyes of film students. Below are some of the videos we are most honored to feature:

Alamosa video

Physicians Assistant Video

Hoofs and Paws

Green Fingers

Denver's Road Home

Sterling

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