VOLUME 136 | ISSUE 8
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
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Participants in the Parents to Work program at an Accomplishment Ceremony. The program assists those who are court-ordered or obligated to pay child support but struggle to do so. PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDERS NELSON
Parents to Work program gains steam Arapahoe County program offers help for those paying child support BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
To help ease the financial strain on those required to pay child support, Arapahoe County has expanded a
program that offers critical resources and assistance. Bob Prevost, human services deputy director, said the Parents to Work program was designed to provide employment assistance to those required by the court to pay child support. And now the program is more robust. It “has been expanded to include a willing/able model to assist in increasing both the willingness and
Tri-State, United Power and CORE in line to get $1.1 billion to aid in transition to clean energy BY ALLEN BEST SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
the ability for parents to pay their court ordered child support obligations through education, social capital and workshops addressing a number of barriers that individuals and families face,” Prevost said. Those who pay or receive court ordered child support in Arapahoe County are eligible to utilize the program. “Any individual with an open case
Three Colorado electrical cooperatives will be getting chunks of a $9.7 billion federal program designed to aid rural America in making the transition to a clean energy economy. Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which delivers power to 41 member cooperatives across four states, 16 of them in Colorado, is in line to get $679 million. That award is in the underwriting stage. Tri-State is confident it will be awarded. “We are optimistic that our applica-
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