Concerned Parents of Pueblo

"Steps to Success" Mentoring Program and Parent Volunteer Program
We are currently collaborating with Mass Gear Up, Pueblo School District 60 and 70, Pueblo Community College, and CSU-Pueblo to provide mentoring services to our community's youth. We have always provided a mentoring basis through our program but strongly feel the need to have a sound and structured program in this area. Along with this service, we feel the need to provide our schools and our program with an effective Parent Volunteer Program. An essential part of this growth is attracting and retaining parent volunteers, an area needing considerable time and concentrated effort. Currently Concerned Parents of Pueblo has 14 parent volunteers in six local middle schools and five local high schools. Our goal is to have 2 to 4 parent volunteers accessible to the students in each of our middle and high schools from both school districts.

Senior Support Program
This program includes Concerned Parent's collaboration with our local SRDA's Annual Rake -Up Pueblo Event. On November 9, 2002, Concerned Parents and SRDA engaged over 605 volunteers to rake 300 senior's yards in one day. Since the inception of Rake Up Pueblo in 1998, over 1305 senior yards have been raked, utilizing over 3,215 volunteers. Approximately 9,900 cubic yards of leaves have been recycled at Pueblo's Greenway and Nature Center.

Youth Issues Workshops
These workshops are designed to address issues that youth and families are faced with today. Some topics include: drugs, binge drinking, violence, gangs, credit management, living and learning, and goal setting. Concerned Parents has organized over 75 workshops since the inception of the organization.


Incentive to Stay in School Youth participant members are allowed to earn incentive points during regular school periods for being a teacher's aid, weekly perfect attendance, and can receive points for Grade Point Average. Concerned Parents has awarded an average of 5,000 points a year to youth participants. In the last three years Concerned Parents has seen an increase in student GPA's and attendance.

Community Volunteer Service Program participants earn incentive points by volunteering at over 50 nonprofit sites. Volunteer hours by youth participants have averaged over 20,000 hours per year.

Community Pride Clean Ups The clean ups are being performed to help promote community pride by bringing together resources to help the residents clean up properties and spruce up their neighborhood. In doing so, this enables the residents to get rid of debris, tree trimmings, old appliances, tires, mattresses, etc. In the last 12 months 60 miles of Pueblo's highways has been cleaned. The River Trail clean up is a new project of cleaning up trash and graffiti for 22 miles following the Arkansas River. For the last seven years, Concerned Parents has participated in an average of 10 major clean ups per year.

Youth United Committee A group of youth participants have come together to support a cause of importance to each member. Each member makes recommendations that support Concerned Parent's programs or projects. The desired outcome of the committee is the creation of youth empowerment and the development of leadership skills.

Office Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday - Friday
901 N. Santa Fe
Pueblo Colorado 81003
Phone (719) 546-3577
Fax (719) 546-1384