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Hello Jeffco CTC Coalition,

Welcome to July! Read ahead for opportunities to sign up for the Data and Priorities Session as well as to help with policy monitoring, a celebration of what you have helped Jeffco CTC accomplish so far this year, and Jefferson County data with new 2025 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey results.

Sign Up for the Data and Priorities Session

Jeffco CTC is shifting how we dig into data this year.

Instead of a separate workgroup, we're inviting everyone (youth and adults) to join our Data and Priorities Session. During the Data and Priorities Session meetings, we'll look at what we heard at the Jeffco CTC Youth Town Hall along with results from the 2025 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.

You don't need to be a "numbers person" to join. We'll handle the analysis; we need your insights and perspective on what the data means and where the Coalition should prioritize its work!

You don't have to attend all of the meetings, but attendance at the majority of the meetings will be helpful. Data and Priorities Session meetings are as follows:

• Wednesday, October 7th, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (virtual)
• Wednesday, October 21st, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (virtual)
• Wednesday, November 4th, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (virtual)
• Wednesday, November 18th, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (virtual)
• Wednesday, December 2nd, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (virtual)
• Wednesday, December 16th, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (virtual)

Please sign up and share with your networks!

Sign Up to help with Policy Monitoring

We are looking for folks to help monitor Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education meetings. 

This process will allow us to know what is happening within the county, help us identify priorities for the coalition, and will allow us to be both proactive and reactive to issues that may arise. 

You do not need any previous experience attending Board meetings, and you do not have to attend in person (They typically have a livestream option as well as recorded meetings available on YouTube).

Please reach out if you have any questions and/or would like to discuss the monitoring process further.

Thank you for all that you do!

-Jeffco CTC Team

Coalition Feature

2026 Mid-Year Accomplishments

It has been a busy year so far. We want to recognize and elevate some of Jeffco CTC's many accomplishments for the first half of 2026.

• We were recommended for Elevating Prevention in Colorado (EPIC) grant funding.
• We held a session with youth focused on revamping Jeffco CTC’s youth engagement, including improving and integrating the Youth Town Hall into all of Jeffco CTC’s work.
• We created Jeffco CTC’s 2025 Evaluation Summary.
• We updated the coalition Outreach Plan to include ways for coalition members to identify, keep track of, and volunteer for events to represent Jeffco CTC and recruit new coalition members.
• We presented a new session-focused structure to the coalition, based on feedback from youth and coalition members.
• We collaborated with MindSpark to hold the Invisible Made Visible youth design session where young people identified barriers to participating in the workforce and brainstormed solutions to address those problems. 
• We developed training standards for the BADJ project.
• We created educational briefs about the topics “Trusted Adults” and “Prosocial/Third Spaces." The briefs defined the terms, shared data to show why the topics are important, and offered ideas for ways to support uplifting the concepts in Jefferson County. The coalition plans to proactively share the briefs with decision makers, like city councils and the school board.
• We completed six month check-in/closure questions with all workgroups to identify successes, challenges, accomplishments and goals, and ways to stay connected to the work in the new structure. These questions were created by the Data and Evaluation workgroup as part of our overall evaluation effort.
• We started our 2026 Youth Town Hall planning with a team of over 25 youth.

We look forward to the second half of 2026. Thank you for making all of these (and more) accomplishments possible!

Data Corner

Alcohol Usage Increases with Grade Level in Jefferson County

According to the newly released 2025 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey results, alcohol usage still increases with grade level among Jefferson County high schoolers. 27% of 12th graders said they drank alcohol in the past 30 days compared to 11% of 9th graders. 

The good news is these numbers have decreased since 2023.

Communicate to your teen that seeking help for substance use is a sign of strength. If you, or your teen, is looking for support, visit Jefferson Center’s website or give them a call at 303-425-0300.

Contact Us

Jefferson County Communities That Care's mission is -- in partnership with youth -- to improve health, safety, and wellness in Jefferson County. 

This monthly newsletter, created by Jeffco CTC staff, is distributed to our coalition's mailing list which anyone can subscribe or unsubscribe to at any time using the links at the end. View this newsletter as a webpage by clicking the link at the top or here: View as Webpage

This project was created by the Jefferson County Communities That Care (Jeffco CTC) coalition, a project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center. Jeffco CTC is funded through an Elevating Prevention in Colorado grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The views, policies and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the grant provider.