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Valley Settlement’s R.V. brings education, resources to neighborhoods for in-home childcare providers
Mar 13, 2023
Local nonprofit Valley Settlement has a new mobile resource vehicle for its “Families, Friends, and Neighbors,” or FFN, program.
Valley Settlement’s Parent Mentor Program Meets a Need
Feb 15, 2023
“Before, we didn’t have anything like this,” recalls Araceli Bautista Ochoa’s oldest son, referring to her involvement in the Parent Mentor Program offered through Valley Settlement.
Deep Listening Tour Becomes Targeted Programming for Colorado Community
Dec 20, 2022
When children hop aboard one of Valley Settlement’s El Busesito mobile preschools in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, they’re taking a giant step into their future…
Giving Thought: Two-Generation Approach Builds Stronger Community Outcomes
Nov 17, 2022
Children do not develop in a vacuum. In recent years, there have been significant increases in supporting early childhood education to improve educational and career outcomes. Still, research suggests that two-generational approaches are encouraged for long term community impact….
How a Preschool on Wheels is Driving Opportunity to Latino Immigrant Families in Colorado
Nov 16, 2022
In a valley renowned for its world-class ski resorts and unrivaled outdoor recreation, with 14,000-foot peaks that pierce the horizon, five-star hotels, designer storefronts and multimillion-dollar mountainside mansions, there is a fleet of short, white buses stamped with geometric shapes…
Sen. Hickenlooper visits Valley Settlement’s El Busesito, hears Latino concerns
May 31, 2022
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., on Tuesday lauded local efforts to improve early childhood education and address other issues of concern within the Latino community during a visit to Carbondale…
Valley Settlement welcomes Latina leadership
Mar 24, 2021
Maria Tarajano Rodman was brought to the United States when she was four years old. She distinctly remembers her mother kneeling to kiss the ground of their natal Cuba before boarding the airplane.
Valley Settlement Names New Executive Director
February 16, 2021
After an exhaustive national search, Valley Settlement’s Board of Directors is excited to announce that Maria Tarajano Rodman will take the helm as Valley Settlement’s new Executive Director, effective February 22.
Press Release – Maria Tarajano Rodman Named Executive Director of Valley Settlement
Photo Gallery: El Busesito Preschool Remote Learning
April 29, 2020
How a Colorado mobile preschool program shifted gears when coronavirus hit. When Colorado schools closed in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, so did El Busesito Preschool…
The Wheels on the Bus
Sept 9, 2019
The Wheels on the Bus, El Busesito Preschool Takes School on Wheels. The El Busesito, or Little Bus, Preschool resides on a school bus. The program is run by Valley Settlement….
Becoming the Helpers
Aug 28, 2019
In trying times, Valley Settlement’s new director calls on the community to unite. As many of us learned from our history classes in school, this country and this very valley were built by immigrants…
Lifelong Learners find expression through the arts
Jun 27, 2019
Local nonprofits VOICES and Valley Settlement are teaming up for the second year, bringing art making to their Lifelong Learning students. The Lifelong Learning program offers free adult education in Spanish to over 100 students each year…
Mobile Preschools Gaining Steam
Mobile preschools are gaining steam across Colorado. Chalkbeat published a great article about the challenges and promise of mobile preschools to address underserved communities, with a nice mention of Valley Settlement’s own “El Busesito Preschool.”
Giving Thought: El Jebel Playground Brings Entire Valley Together
October 10, 2018
Valley Settlement doesn’t build playgrounds, but when a chance arose to replace a neighborhood playground demolished by a new traffic roundabout in El Jebel, the midvalley nonprofit jumped at the opportunity…
New Roaring Fork Valley Program Helps with Postpartum Depression
June 24, 2018
Valley Settlement Project, a program that empowers immigrant families in the valley, has partnered with researchers at CU Boulder to spearhead a new program that helps women experiencing postpartum depression…
Valley Settlement in the Aspen Times
February 1, 2017
A program that has enriched the lives of numerous immigrant families in the Roaring Fork Valley for five years has branched off into its own stand-alone nonprofit organization. Valley Settlement will pursue its mission of engaging, educating and empowering low-income families separate from the Manaus Fund…
Nuestro Futuro – A New Bright Future
July 1, 2015
ELISABET ROJAS leads her preschool class in a minute-long meditation. She uses a large plastic toy that expands and contracts to demonstrate how to fill the lungs with a deep breath, and she begins the exercise by sounding a chime. Little lungs fill with air…
Valley Settlement Project Earns Praise
March 28, 2015
DENVER — The Carbondale-based Valley Settlement Project was hailed Monday as a success story for helping families be part of their schools and communities as advocates rolled out Colorado’s annual Kids Count report. Valley Settlement Project “is a model of the kinds of innovation…
Parent Mentor Program Bridges Cultural Gaps
August 10, 2014
Lizdebet Nuñez sheds tears of joy when she talks about Valley Settlement Project’s rapidly growing Parent Mentor Program, which reaches elementary schools in Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs. “I’m really happy living here now,” she says….
El Busesito: Early Ed for Children and Parents
January 15, 2014
Interview by David Bonnheim with Veronica Felix, community organizer, Manaus Fund’s Valley Settlement Project
Veronica Felix got her start as a community organizer during evenings spent listening to her father and United Farmworkers co-founder Cesar Chavez plan to organize the…
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