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Fremont County has been chosen to receive $15,254 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county.The selection was made by a national board that is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from the American Red Cross; Catholic Charities, USA; National Council of the […]

Loaves and Fishes Ministries has been selected as a beneficiary of the King Soopers’ Fight Hunger bag program for December and January. Designed in alignment with King Soopers’ Zero Hunger | Zero Waste initiative, aimed at helping to end hunger and eliminate waste in local communities, the Fight Hunger bag makes it easy for shoppers […]

Fremont County was recently certified by a national nonprofit for functionally ending veteran homelessness.

Government officials and nonprofit workers in Fremont County have been working with Community Solutions since October 2019 as part of the Built for Zero project, a framework created by Community Solutions to end homelessness across the country. Cañon City is located about an hour southwest of Colorado Springs and is home to several prisons, including the Colorado State Penitentiary, which provide jobs for many of the areas residents. Loaves and Fishes Ministries runs the countys only emergency...

Fremont reaches functional zero for veteran homelessness Alex Proimos / CC BY 2.0 FREMONT, Colo. (KRDO) -- Today, Fremont, Colorado has been certified by a national nonprofit for functionally ending veteran homelessness. It is just the 12th community in the country to achieve functional zero for veteran homelessness, a dynamic measure for ending veteran homelessness. The community will be focused on sustaining this reality and expanding these results ...