HOUSING FIRST: A Place to Call Home!
Let's have fun and do good in our community by raising funds to create affordable, low-income, low-barrier, permanent, and supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness.
Community Compassion Outreach has a mission to create a fully sustainable community, located in an area that can focus on support services, life skills and job training skills to improve our entire Durango community. Your contributions and participation are fully tax-deductible as CCO is a 501c3 organization.
Help to make a significant difference in the lives of those who need it most!
Please attend our fundraiser Dinner with Ron Hall! Select your tickets today!
Let's have fun and do good in our community by raising funds to create affordable, low-income, low-barrier, permanent, and supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness.
Community Compassion Outreach has a mission to create a fully sustainable community, located in an area that can focus on support services, life skills and job training skills to improve our entire Durango community. Your contributions and participation are fully tax-deductible as CCO is a 501c3 organization.
Help to make a significant difference in the lives of those who need it most!
Please attend our fundraiser Dinner with Ron Hall! Select your tickets today!
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Community Compassion Outreach's mission is to assist local individuals and families in preventing, surviving, and exiting homelessness and poverty. This program provides recovery coaches, peer support professionals, and culturally sensitive assistance which includes meals, housing assistance, motel nights, transportation, wraparound services, and referrals to partner agencies who provide coordination of care. Funding will also be used to facilitate a new child/family program with free transportation in our new 12-passenger van (families with children only). |
Recovery Empowerment Support Services Team
RESST
~ SAFE TALKS IN RECOVERY (STiR) Tuesdays & Fridays 09:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ~
Peer recovery support for people suffering mental and/or substance use disorders is a
service offered by volunteers and paid peer & family professionals/recovery coaches.
service offered by volunteers and paid peer & family professionals/recovery coaches.
Download Articles of Incorporation & Bylaws
CCO became a nonprofit on March 29, 2018. The IRS determination letter dated August 2018 recognizes Community Compassion Outreach (CCO) as a 501(c)(3) public charity.
Click 2020 Form 990 Download file!
(NOTE: CCO started as a church program in January 2017 and has evolved into a more effective organization since our nonprofit status was determined). To obtain additional information, please contact us here.
CCO became a nonprofit on March 29, 2018. The IRS determination letter dated August 2018 recognizes Community Compassion Outreach (CCO) as a 501(c)(3) public charity.
Click 2020 Form 990 Download file!
(NOTE: CCO started as a church program in January 2017 and has evolved into a more effective organization since our nonprofit status was determined). To obtain additional information, please contact us here.
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Who we are
Community Compassion Outreach is made up of concerned individuals, faith & nonprofit groups, and local/state/national organizations working together to craft permanent & real solutions to end homelessness.
The need
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DOWNLOAD Livable Wages in Southwest Colorado 2019
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Neighbor in Needs Alliance counted 411 unhoused in La Plata County.
2021 Homeless Point-in-Time Study Sheltered and Unsheltered Count Balance of State
2021 Homeless Point-in-Time Study Sheltered and Unsheltered Count Balance of State
Read 01/2022 Letter from the Board click here. . .
CCO's Three-Point Commitment
Advancing self-sufficiency and human dignity
CCO is committed to fostering personal responsibility, independence, self-governance, and the life skills necessary for people to move out of unstable living situations and into brighter futures.
Safe, stable small homes in a village setting
Homes provided through CCO will be compact, safe, durable and functional. Residents will be involved in the operation and maintenance of the community with oversight and support provided by CCO.
For those who need them most
CCO will serve those with very low incomes that are currently unable to access affordable housing.
CCO is committed to fostering personal responsibility, independence, self-governance, and the life skills necessary for people to move out of unstable living situations and into brighter futures.
Safe, stable small homes in a village setting
Homes provided through CCO will be compact, safe, durable and functional. Residents will be involved in the operation and maintenance of the community with oversight and support provided by CCO.
For those who need them most
CCO will serve those with very low incomes that are currently unable to access affordable housing.
Proposed Components
HHI Essential Homes - 560/704/1408-sq.ft. options with shared resources and common facility to support a village with one, two, three and four bedroom units for more than 60 homeless households.
Recovery Sober-Living Housing is a new priority for CCO's Recovery Empowerment Support Services Team (RESST) Phase Two Program.
SELF-GOVERNANCE - Involvement of residents in decision-making and management.
VILLAGE MEETING - Residents meet as a community at least twice a week, based upon evidence-based policy.
COMMUNITY AGREEMENT - A basic code of conduct by which residents would abide.
Recovery Sober-Living Housing is a new priority for CCO's Recovery Empowerment Support Services Team (RESST) Phase Two Program.
SELF-GOVERNANCE - Involvement of residents in decision-making and management.
VILLAGE MEETING - Residents meet as a community at least twice a week, based upon evidence-based policy.
COMMUNITY AGREEMENT - A basic code of conduct by which residents would abide.
Community Compassion Outreach, Inc.
a 501(c)(3) Not-for-Profit, EIN: 82-5001338 since 03/29/2018
Thank you for your tax deductible Giving!
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We have office space at the Hub on 3rd Avenue!
255 E. 11th Street, Durango, CO 81301
Our number stays the same!
(970) 236-2313
255 E. 11th Street, Durango, CO 81301
Our number stays the same!
(970) 236-2313
255 E. 11th Street, Durango, CO 81301-5264 (upstairs on the 2nd floor).
Our mission is to assist individuals & families to prevent, to survive and to exit homelessness with warm clothing, camp provisions, food, referrals to vital resources and connection to housing. A retired skyscraper architect, Stuart Ohlson designed a 704-sq.ft. essential house for permanent and supportive housing for our development of a Village of Hope.
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We are located at 255 E. 11th St., Durango, CO 81301.
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Hours
In-Person Meetings by Appointment Only:
- Mon. & Thurs. (by appointment only) between 10:00am - 4:00pm.
- Tuesdays & Fridays - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm RESST Program with snacks, beverages and lunch provided.
- SATURDAYS -- Schneider Park near the entrance, we hold COFFEE & CONVERSATIONS starting at 12:30 p.m. until food is gone...come early.