Disruptive Generosity: Impact Movement-Intentional Compassion & Radical Hospitality

Please register before midnight Monday, February 23rd to learn about a NEW Movement in our community. The full title is:  Generosity: A Community Impact Movement with High ROI because of Intentional Compassion and Radical Hospitality Focused on Kids & Families 

The program will be facilitated by Jildi Gentry, Safe Families for Children Northern Colorado (SFFCNoCo), Community Engagement for Weld County.

Safe Families for Children (SFFC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 in Chicago, Illinois, as a volunteer-driven movement to keep children safe and families intact by providing temporary hosting for children while their parents navigate crises.  They are surrounded by a “Circle of Support” comprised of trained volunteers who offer care, coaching and community connections.  Keeping children safe and families together. Family Stabilization & Support / Child Abuse Prevention / Foster Care Deflection.

Unlike foster care, the SFFC model is double voluntary—parents and volunteers both choose participation—building trust and dignity while preventing unnecessary family separation. They are one of three active chapters in Colorado—Denver, Northern Colorado, and Pikes Peak—within a national network of 100 sites across 40 states and 14 countries.  The local Northern Colorado Chapter was established in 2020 by a former child protection worker who recognized the gap in services for families in Larimer and Weld Counties in need of support systems, and growing relationships necessary to thrive.

This Workshop will be hosted at Macy Chapel, 6521 W. 20th St., Greeley, CO 80634 on Wed., March 4th from 7:45-10 a.m.  For just $38 for NorCoWIB Members and $48 for Guests – you will discover how SFFC  is faith motivated and family-focused and how they build social support systems around isolated families who might be experiencing:  Homelessness / Unemployment / Medical Emergencies / Domestic Violence / Substance Abuse Treatment / Mental Health Issues / Incarceration.

Three key points you will gain and take away following this Workshop:

1. What Family First Prevention is and why it matters.
2. SFFC is a movement, not a program, and how that makes a difference for children, families, and communities.
3. The SFFC Model – Circles of Support, and what makes them work.Contact information:

Let’s get to know our presenter – 

Jildi Gentry joined Safe Families for Children Northern Colorado with a background spanning a 35-year career in early care and learning, family support, systems and capacity building, collaborative community impact, and youth- and care-focused ministry. She’s passionate about accessibility and the social, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being of all people, and especially committed to women and girls. Known for her ability to connect with those who struggle to trust, Jildi thrives on building meaningful relationships.

She holds undergraduate degrees in Early Childhood Development and Christian Leadership, and a Master’s in Organizational Leadership.

Jildi has successfully led in both the business and the nonprofit sectors. She consults, speaks, and trains on child growth and development, trauma-informed parenting and care-giving, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), is skilled in Facilitative Leadership, board development, grants and budgets, recruitment and retention, and many other organizational topics. She is a Family Coach, GPS RoundTable™ Certified Facilitator of values-based leadership groups, Relapse Prevention, Anger Management, and small groups for women and youth, including pregnant and parenting teens.

As a single mother to multi-ethnic children and a professional with experience across diverse, often high-risk populations, Jildi is deeply moved by the Safe Families’ mission to prevent social isolation and child abuse while keeping children safe and families together. Affectionately called “Momma J” by many, she treasures time volunteering with youth and young adults, and getting to make memories with her two adult children, daughter-in-law, and granddog.

NorCoWIB member Jaymi Anderson, E.D. of Genesis Project is a partner agency and she will be introducing Jildi.

Ways you can reach-out to: Jildi Gentry

Your Website: northern-colorado.safe-families.org
Phone Number/Text: (970) 518-5543
Your Email: jgentry@safefamilies.net
Social Media
FB: https://facebook.com/SafeFamiliesNoCo
Instagram:  safefamiliesnorthernco

SPECIAL THANK YOUs to those volunteers who help make this event a fabulous experience for those participating!

Set-up DIVAS 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, 3/3 (4) Gena Wickes, Horse & Hound Chiropractic; Anna Green, UNC; Laura Jones, Habitat for Humanity; Selvi Kailasam, IT Business

Check-in Hostesses (2) arrive before 7:30 a.m. Jaymi Anderson, Genesis Project; Robin McIntire, Certified Life & Empowerment Coach

Catering: Corleone’s, Nick St. George

Greeter: Barb Wasung, Community Grief Center, WFB, Wrangler; Brittany Smith Schmeeckle, Weld Food Bank

Speaker’s Gift: Amie Cieminski, UNC/Youth Empowerment Group

7th Inning Stretch: Heather Ingersoll, Hometown Insurance

Clean-up DIVAS (4) Marie Warren, Marie Warren Homes-Coldwell Banker Realty NoCo; Kodie Rosten, Hope House of NOCO; Chris McDermott, Habitat for Humanity; Pam Groeger, Five Rings Financial/Medicare Plans

Sister-to-Sister Pay-it-Forward will be coordinated by: Amy Threewitt, Weld Community Foundation. The monies donated will help: Safe Families for Children going directly to assist SFFCNoCo goal of raising funds for the newly established footprint in Weld County, to do the critical work of keeping families together safely, within a circle of support. They connect children with vetted volunteers into a circle of support and intentional relationships to strengthen families and prevent parents from experiencing further set-backs.

Your donation makes a difference! Here’s how it works: This is a Free-Will opportunity to donate $5 + 1 business card, or if you are passionate about the work this nonprofit accomplishes you can donate up to $20 and put 4 business cards in the drawing. It functions in $5 increments. At the end of the Workshop, 1 business card is drawn and that person splits the pot with SFFCNoCo this month’s nonprofit organization we are supporting.