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Westminster nonprofit Growing Home pivots to prevent families from becoming homeless
After more than 20 years of directly placing unhoused families in temporary homes, a Westminster nonprofit has switched its focus to preventing homelessness in the first place.
Growing Home opened in 1998 as Adams County Interfaith Hospitality Network. At the time, the suburbs had relatively few services for homeless families, founder Kathleen Drozda said in an interview in 2018. Most people who need housing in the area aren’t chronically homeless, but hit a setback that caused them to fall behind on rent, she said.
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