Rewired Participates In The Colfax
Jefferson County, CO (PRWEB) May 14, 2012
REWIRED, a Jefferson County Colorado based nonprofit organization that supports the long-term, true recovery of the whole person by developing and enhancing a network of community resources for drug court individuals and families, announced today that it will field a team of 20+ runners in the Colfax Marathon, May 19th and 20th, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.
REWIRED?s marathon team is comprised of Jeffco officials and REWIRED supporters, including Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey. In addition to running in the Marathon, REWIRED will host a booth in the Charity Village where it will hold a bake sale to raise funds.
Founded in 2009, REWIRED?s mission is to promote public safety and addiction recovery through a coordinated response to alcohol, drug and substance abuse, providing family reintegration, family preservation, social reintegration, employment and education, housing services and other aftercare activities.
The First Judicial District (Jefferson and Gilpin counties) has developed two specialized courts to help drug addicts. The Family Intensive Treatment (FIT) Court serves addicted parents who are at risk of losing their children. The Recovery Court serves addicts with felony convictions who have made a commitment to becoming clean and sober.
Many of REWIRED?s clients are also struggling to meet the basic costs of living, including shelter, food, and transportation. Most can only find very low-paying jobs. Until they have demonstrated success in their recovery, most employers won?t hire them.
But being successful in recovery requires transportation to treatment and court appointments, housing that is not full of drug abusers, and for parents, the ability to meet their children?s basic needs.
REWIRED?S funding enables:
Bus tokens or gas vouchers
Clothes for job interviews
Gift certificates (grocery, restaurant) to use as program rewards
Security deposit assistance
Utility assistance
Diapers, books, and toys for children of the Drug Court participants
REWIRED is important to Jefferson County. The use of drugs is involved in more than 50% of violent crimes, 60 to 80% of child abuse and neglect cases, and 50-70% of theft and property crimes. Helping an addict who is on the road to recovery helps reduce crime and child abuse.
For more information about REWIRED or to make a contribution, visit REWIRED’S website or http://www.blacktie-colorado.com.
America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake
For more than seven decades, the American government has acted to provide housing for the poor. In America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, Howard Husock explains how, as with so many anti-poverty efforts, low-income housing programs have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage to cities and their citizens. Public housing projects, Mr. Husock writes, are only the best-known housing policy mistakes. His book explains how a long list of lesser-known efforts—including housing vouchers, community development corporations, the low-income housing tax credit, and the Community Reinvestment Act—are just as pernicious, working in concert to undermine sound neighborhoods and perpetuate a dependent underclass. He exposes the false premises underlying publicly subsidized housing, above all the belief that the private housing market inevitably fails the poor. Exploring the link between private housing markets and individual self-improvement, he shows how new and expensive public efforts are merely old wine in new bottles. Instead he argues for the deep but unappreciated importance to American society of economically diverse urban neighborhoods, and he demonstrates the historic and continuing importance of privately built “affordable” housing, from the brownstones of Brooklyn to the bungalows of Oakland and, in the present day, houses built through Habitat for Humanity. Bearing witness in the tradition of Jane Jacobs, Mr. Husock describes and laments the deadening effects of public and subsidized housing on the economies and vitality of American cities.
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