BRANCH Blog

by Karen E. Crummy | Denver Post Students and neighborhood residents joined together Saturday to dig in Aurora Public Schools’ first community garden. Located at North Middle School,the garden is part of a new curriculum for the school’s health sciences and science courses

Join Us for the North Middle School Community Garden Festival! Bring your friends and family to help celebrate Aurora Public Schools first school-based Community Garden. The day begins at 10 a.m. with remarks from invited speakers followed by activities by North Middle School students

The first Community Engagement for Health event was held on the Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC) Anschutz Medical this past Monday, Nov. 5th, 2012.  Six North Aurora community outreach organizations shared information about their work and projects with more than 50 AMC students, faculty,

BRANCH is partnering with the Department of Family Medicine and CCTSI (Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute) to bring North Aurora community organizations together to speak to our AMC students, faculty, and staff. The goal for the event is to introduce the AMC comm

Community Engagement & Community Volunteer Efforts Thanks to funding from the Piton Foundation; BRANCH, Aurora Public Schools (APS), and Denver Urban Gardens will begin work on two APS community gardens: How you can get involved:

Check out this documentary developed by Jill Litt, PhD at the University of Colorado Colorado School of Public Health and Denver Urban Gardens.

BRANCH is growing in big ways, and we need YOU! Fall is here, the school year has begun, and many of our projects are about to take off.  We are in the early planning stages of our Community Garden at North Middle School!  Get involved now – this is a unique opportunity to help

What is BRANCH? BRANCH is a multidisciplinary student organization at the University of Colorado that is partnering with Aurora communities to promote, support, and implement programs that encourage Aurora community members to take an active role in their own health and the health of

It is exciting to see what BRANCH has done and what we have to look forward this year and years to come. We would like to thank everyone who has supported BRANCH and have been patient in our progress towards community gardens, farmer’s market, and campus garden. We have transitioned i