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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 , 2020
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THE SEASON FOR SHARING
Our in-depth look at the housing crisis
Aims seeks to fill nursing shortage
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New program hosting orientation March 3 BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
With the high demand for nursing aides, the Fort Lupton branch of Aims Community College will try to help fill the gap. The college is offering one class per semester through the “Care For Colorado” state grant signed by Governor Jared Polis. Shelly Powell, Aims Community College Med Prep Programs chair, said the program will help pay all the necessary supplies. “Your gait belts, supplies, books, and the tuition,” Powell said. Powell said it’s an effort to try to fill positions and get people back into health care with opportunities in long-term rehabilitation, nursing homes, home health care, assisted living facilities and hospitals. “Also, high school students can take the course and possibly have it paid for through their high school. Home health tender finally has a house to call somewhere, putting down roots,” care companies are flexible with his own. said Laney. He has worked at school schedules,” said Kendra “I almost feel guilty that I have Jake’s Brew Bar in Littleton since Merriott, Aims Community Colit,” said Laney, 49. 2012. lege program coordinator. Laney is one of a handful of “This is where I want to be,” The Greeley Aims campus also residents who have secured hous- Laney said. “My friends and family offers the Nurses Aide proing through a subsidized program are Jake’s.” gram. A career as a Nurse’s Aide BY ROBERT TANN aimed at helping lower- and In numerous counties, residents could lead to other allied health COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA middle-income people live where — spanning a range of employprograms in nursing, such as rathey work. But as cities and towns ment from the service industry to diology tech, with many growth When Chris Laney moved into contend with historically high teaching — have faced the brunt opportunities. his new three-bedroom home last home costs and a lack of supply, of what many officials are calling a To get started with the prosummer, he felt like he’d won the residents like Laney have strughousing crisis. gram, students must attend an Every year After before Thanksgiving, First United Methodist Church in Fort Lupton and Fort price Lupton and Clothinghour-long Bank provide community lottery. more than a decade gled to live in their communities. The the median of aFood singleorientation to sign up members with food boxes. This will be the program’s 10th consecutive year. Above, Joe Hubert, left China Garcia and Sue Hubert with 4 Change, of chasing the cheapest rent across “I’ve always felt like I was just for the class andChange learn about the the metro area, the that Littleton through of Page living2. SEE PRICES, P7 requirements of a nurse’s aide, another organization helpsbarwith thepassing food drive. Seeinstead more on
High home prices, lack of supply sever metro residents from communities
Lower- and middleincome people struggle to live where they work
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