Heart & Hand Center

Glenna Norvelle, Interim ED

EERI

Hand and Heart center

By creating a nurturing community, Heart & Hand empowers all young people to realize their potential.

Year Founded: 2010

Heart & Hand creates a nurturing afterschool environment where everyone gets a meal, help with homework, exposure to new passions, and a healthy dose of love.Each day, Heart & Hand provides three hours of daily afterschool programming for youth 2nd-8th grade across three sites in Colorado. In the summer, Heart & Hand works to provide our youth with an enriching camp experience inclusive of academic support, field trips across the Denver metro area, and workshops.

For older students, the Career & College Readiness program is designed to meet the individual academic, social-emotional, and future-planning needs of participants, empowering them to achieve post-secondary success and beyond. Additionally, Heart & Hand’s newest program—Family Development— is designed to provide wrap-around supports to the entire family including resource navigation, support services, and advocacy.

Beginning in a small house on the corner of Welton and 28th, Founder Nikki Cady offered afterschool programming for about thirty local youth. From the start, Heart & Hand was known as a place where young people could show up, receive a high five or a hug, get something to eat, and know they were safe. What began as peanut butter sandwiches and art projects, quickly grew into structured afterschool programming offered at schools throughout Northeast Denver. Nikki served as Executive Director of the Heart & Hand Center for 5 years, before stepping back to a part-time role. Today, Nikki remains on the Heart & Hand leadership team and Board of Directors. Heart & Hand is proud to continue to provide workshops and resources in the Heart & Hand “Center” now supporting nearly 300 students across four programs and three sites.

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