Made in Denver: Joy as Resistance
Editor’s note: Throughout fall, RED’s Made in Denver series will highlight Mile High business owners who graduated from MSU Denver…
Tag: Social Work
The fight against fentanyl
This story appears in the RED magazine’s fall 2022 issue. Eric Perez was a success story. He grew up in…
From the classroom to cable TV
Like many children of the late 1980s and early ’90s, Kryss Shane, Ph.D., grew up watching television shows such as…
Conference topic turns to voting rights as another election nears
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic was ripping through the United States during a bitterly fought presidential election. But that didn’t…
Federal grants support future mental-health professionals
Linda Medina Martinez recalls being an anxious first-grader at Fort Logan Elementary School. As a Mexican immigrant who had recently…
Recovery revelation
At age 15, Tabitha Shackleton was a “full-blown addict,” she said, using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of…
Fast finish
In October 2015, Ley-Lonni Marie Woodruff was at a breaking point at the tender age of 16 when she sat…
Change agent
Jennifer Muñoz knew she wanted to go to college. The 37-year-old single mother planned on enrolling in a social-work program…
Addiction recovery a year into Covid-19 pandemic
Vic Vela was struggling. Despite six years in recovery from drug addiction, 2020 had pushed him into “crisis mode.” In…
COVID-19 pandemic adds complexities to domestic violence in Colorado
What interpersonal-violence expert Katherine Miller wasn’t hearing last spring concerned her. At the height of Colorado’s COVID-19 lockdowns, the advocacy-service program manager…