Niñoz en la Cocina
2025-10-09 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-16 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Metro Caring Kitchen, 1100 E 18th Avenue, Denver, 80218, United States
Clase en Español, GRATIS para los estudiantes de 1ro-5to y sus familias.
¡Cocinaremos juntos, y aprenderemos sobre nutrición con amigos!
Los participantes son elegibles para recibir un vale para un viaje de compras en nuestro mercado de alimentos frescos

Baby Café
2025-10-20 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-27 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-03 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-10 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-17 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-24 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-01 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-08 11:00 - 12:30 and 2 more dates | Metro Caring, 1100 E. 18th Ave., Denver, CO, 80218, United States
Held in partnership with Metropolitan State University and expert lactation consultants, Baby Café is a weekly lactation support group focused on reducing barriers for those who want to produce milk to feed their baby. Complete with food, peer support, and Certified Lactation Consultant advice. Join us every Monday in the Metro Caring 2nd-floor conference room. No RSVP or registration required.

Healthy food is provided each week.
Expert support from Certified Lactation Counselor & International Board Certified Lactation Consultants
Peer friendships
English/Spanish interpretation

Contact Danette Hollowell, CLC or Donielle Dominguez, RD, CLC with any questions.

Ballot Education Night
2025-10-28 18:00 | Metro Caring Education Center, 1100 E. 18th Avenue, Denver, CO, 80218, United States
Learn what’s on your ballot and what YES or NO really mean!
Count Me In Colorado will walk us through the ballot, nonpartisan and easy to understand. Denver Clerk & Recorder’s Office will have a live “Red Box” so you can cast your vote on-site, even if you live outside Denver!
Join us Tuesday, Oct. 28 6:00pm.
To register, follow this link: https://metrocaring.tfaforms.net/f/sign-up
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Noche Informativa de Votación
¡Aprende qué aparece en tu boleta y qué significa realmente votar SÍ o NO!
Count Me In Colorado nos guiará a través de la boleta de manera imparcial y fácil de entender.La Oficina de la Secretaria y Registradora del Condado de Denver tendrá una “Caja Roja” en vivo para que puedas emitir tu voto en el lugar, ¡incluso si vives fuera de Denver!
Únete a nosotros el martes 28 de octubre a las 6:00 p.m.
Para registrarte, sigue este enlace: https://metrocaring.tfaforms.net/f/sign-up

November Food Preservation Club
2025-11-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Metro Caring Kitchen, 1100 E 18th Avenue, Denver, 80218, United States
Developing food preservation skills creates an opportunity to reclaim both agency and knowledge about our food that the industrialized food system has purposefully shut us out of.
Through this class series, participants will be able to turn fresh produce into shelf-stable food with their own hands. November’s session will be the last of this season, so join us for an evening of canning homemade applesauce!
RSVP now: https://metrocaring.tfaforms.net/4993187

Denver Vision 2076: Help Shape Colorado's Future
2025-11-13 17:30 - 19:30 | Metro Caring Education Center, 1100 E. 18th Avenue, Denver, CO, 80218, United States
Imagine time traveling to 2076 and seeing the Colorado we helped create together. What would our communities, economy, and environment look like if we achieved our biggest hopes for the state?
On Thursday, November 13, Metro Caring is partnering with Reimagine Colorado and the Colorado Fiscal Institute for a fun, creative visioning event. Through hands-on activities, arts and crafts, and small group conversations, we’ll explore what Colorado could look like in 50 years—our state’s 200th anniversary.
Expect art supplies, delicious food, and engaging activities designed to spark imagination and build community. Childcare and interpretation available. No prior experience or artistic skills required.
Your voice will contribute to Vision 2076, a statewide initiative gathering input from communities across Colorado to identify our shared values and create a roadmap for the future we want.
RSVP now: https://tinyurl.com/2rmm538h

Diabetes Cooking Club
2025-12-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Metro Caring, 1100 E. 18th Ave., Denver, CO, 80218, United States
Manage the holidays with your health in mind!
Metro Caring’s Diabetes Cooking Club is bringing the community together this season for a hands-on session focused on staying healthy through the holidays. Participants will explore practical ways to manage holiday stress and portion control during gatherings, all while enjoying a welcoming group atmosphere.
As part of the event, attendees will receive a shopping voucher to use at Metro Caring’s fresh food market, helping them put what they learn into practice at home.
Space is limited to 20 participants. To join, RSVP, with Khadijatu at kstevens@metrocaring.org

Free First Look: Shifting towards Solidarity Webinar and Training Series
2026-01-29 11:30 - 12:30 | Metro Caring, 1100 E. 18th Ave., Denver, CO, 80218, United States
True transformation happens when direct service becomes a space for shared power—when we serve, organize, and co-create with our community, not for it.
Metro Caring staff, volunteers, and partners are invited to join this special first look at Shifting Toward Solidarity, a new learning series rooted in our shared work and lived experience.
This is a free first look at our upcoming series.
Please register to attend.
What’s This Session About?
Across the nonprofit sector, many of us are navigating a profound shift—moving away from traditional charity models and toward participant-centered, community-led, and trauma-informed practices grounded in solidarity. This shift doesn’t lead to a neat destination; instead, it opens a journey of humility, learning, and co-creation.
At Metro Caring, this transformation has been deeply personal and collective. Together with our community, we’ve reimagined what it means to fight hunger—creating intentional pathways for participants to grow into leadership roles across our staff, board, and the broader anti-hunger movement.
This session offers a free sneak peek into our upcoming Hour of Power webinar series, Shifting Toward Solidarity, where we ask the hard but necessary questions:

What does it really mean to be community-led?
How does shared power show up in our day-to-day work?
How do we design systems that reflect the wisdom already present in our community?

Why Attend In Person?
While this event is offered in a hybrid format, the in-person experience is designed for deeper dialogue and connection. Participants attending onsite will have the opportunity to engage in small-group discussion and relationship-building alongside Metro Caring staff and community leaders—creating space to reflect, ask questions, and learn together.
In-person seats are limited to 20, so early registration is encouraged.
You’ll Get a Preview Of:

Navigating Scarcity Together
From Charity to Solidarity
Trauma-Informed Spaces
Building Better Systems: Operationalizing Equity in the Hidden Spaces of Service
Outcomes Flow from Solidarity: Community-Led Evaluation

Grupo de Apoyo para Personas con Diabetes (Español)
2026-02-04 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-02-11 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-02-18 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-02-25 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-04 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-11 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-18 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-25 09:30 - 11:00 | Metro Caring Casita Gris, 1728 Downing Street, Denver, CO, 80218, United States
Diseñado para personas con diabetes y sus seres queridos. Únase a nuestros educadores de salud certificados, comparta experiencias y aprenda de los demás. Juntos, podemos aprender a vivir una vida sana y feliz con diabetes.
Fecha: Todos los miércoles comenzando el 4 de febrero
Hora: 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. (Opcional clase de yoga con Center for Trauma and Resilience, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Lugar: Metro Caring Casita Gris, 1728 Downing St, Denver, 80218
Para Registración: Eva Valdez, 720-434-9929, Correo electrónico

Diabetes Among Friends: Support Groups (English)
2026-02-13 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-03-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Hiawatha Recreation Center, 3334 Holly Street, Denver, CO, 80207, United States
Designed for folks who have diabetes and their loved ones.
Join our Certified Peer Health Educators to share and learn from others.
Together, we can navigate how to live a healthy and happy life with diabetes.
For more information and to register, contact Lannea Hand via email or by phone at 720-290-1688.

Navigating Scarcity Together - Full Live Training
2026-03-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Metro Caring: South Building, 1726 N Downing St, Denver, CO, 80218, United States
Scarcity changes how we think and how we serve. In a time when we are facing unprecedented scarcity, let’s understand it together.
When we are worrying about food, housing, safety, or stability, our brains shift into survival mode. Focus narrows. Decisions become harder. Trust can erode. What may look like disengagement or resistance is often cognitive overload.
But scarcity doesn’t stop there.
Nonprofit professionals are also navigating limited time, funding pressure, policy constraints, and overwhelming need. Under that strain, urgency can replace reflection. Systems become rigid. Burnout grows. Even the most compassionate teams can find themselves reacting instead of responding.
This training brings both sides into the same frame.
Springing from the science to scarcity and behavioral economics—and strengthened by the lived experience of the facilitators who have navigated scarcity firsthand—this session helps participants see how strain shapes behavior on both sides of the helping relationship.
Participants will leave with:

A clearer understanding of how scarcity affects real people—physically, mentally, and relationally
Language to describe what they’re seeing in themselves and others
A practical lens for responding in ways that build dignity, agency, and trust

This is a stand-alone training that offers immediate insight and practical grounding, while also serving as a foundation for deeper work in solidarity and systems change.
In-Person Live Training
Date: March 11, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Metro Caring – Granite Building
1726 N Downing St, Denver, CO 80218
Format: In-person workshop
ONLINE SELF-PACED VERSION AVAILABLE ONGOING
Tickets: $150 In Person
Tickets: $150 – Online version
Special Opportunity!!! If you are a Metro Caring volunteer and you have completed over 20 hours of volunteering, you have access to our pay-what-you-can offer, where you can pay what you can for each training based upon your capacity.
Please register to attend.

Diabetes Among Friends (English)
2026-03-19 10:30 - 12:30 | Hiawatha Recreation Center, 3334 Holly Street, Denver, CO, 80207, United States
Join us for a free six-week course that provides tools for people with diabetes and their loved ones to eat well, monitor blood glucose, be active, and manage stress. Each class, you receive a voucher to shop for free groceries in our Fresh Foods Market.
Thursdays, March 19 – April 23, 2026
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Hiawatha Davis Recreation Center
3334 Holly St, Denver, CO 80207
To sign up, contact class leaders Jocelyn Miller and Roberta Molock at 720-290-1688 or Metro Caring Wellness Program Coordinator Khadijatu Stevens via email.
