Children’s Champion Nominations

April 5, 2023 Children’s Champion Nominations

CHILDREN’S CHAMPION AWARD NOMINATION DETAILS

The Children’s Champion award is designed to recognize those individuals and organizations that are going above and beyond the requirements of their job to ensure that services for children birth – 8 in Clear Creek, Gilpin, and Jefferson counties are comprehensive, equitable and accessible.  The award was first presented in 2008 and has been given to a variety of individuals and organizations.

We are seeking nominations of individuals/organizations with the following characteristics:

• They collaborate within the community, working across the domains of early learning, health, and family support. That means that they are connected to many different organizations (Triad, health department, DDRC, DHS, JCMH, Jeffco ARC, business community, faith community, political system, etc.).  We are looking for folks who do more than just sit on a variety of committees. We are looking for people who are actively working with others to improve the lives of our youngest citizens!
• Invest significant amounts of time and or resources.  We are looking for people who go over and above in terms of making sure that things get done or who find ways to leverage more funding for activities that enhance services for kid’s birth – 8 in the Triad communities.
• Improve the quality, access, and equity of services for young children and their families in Clear Creek, Gilpin and/or Jefferson Counties.  This could be someone/an organization that holds informational sessions around community resources, ways to improve quality for childcare or who finds ways to increase the availability of services (either in number or variety) in the Triad communities.  It could also be someone who finds ways to increase the access that low income families or families who have children with disabilities can access services that are in the community. These are just a few examples.
• We are looking ideally for one winner (which means we need several nominees) from each of the Triad counties, as well as someone/an organization that represents the larger (metro area or state) community.

All nominees will be recognized, and award winners will be announced at the Children’s Champion awards breakfast on June 6, 2023.

Click here to access the nomination form.