Child Care Contribution Credit

What is the Child Care Contribution Credit?

This credit seeks to increase the quality and availability of child care in metro Denver. The state of Colorado allows you to take up to a 50% tax credit on your state income taxes when you donate to Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities will mail Child Care Contribution Credit certificates to donors in January with donation amounts qualifying for the tax credit.

*Donations of $300 or more to Marisol Homes, Early Childhood Education or the Family Floor at Samaritan House Denver qualify for the Child Care Contribution Credit Tax Credit. Learn more at ccdenver.org/cccc

OUR PROGRAMS:

• Early Childhood Education Services & Child Care provides educational, physical, emotional, and psychological support to help at-risk children and families. We provide services from prenatal to children 5 years of age, empower families, and help alleviate poverty by providing high quality, affordable early childhood education. We operate six Early Childhood Education facilities in Denver, which provide Early Head Start, Head Start and Child Care Services.

• Marisol Homes provides safe and secure emergency and community-based housing for pregnant women, and single women with children, who are experiencing homelessness. We work with these women and families as they integrate back into the community by offering counseling, job training, workshops and needed quality child care services for their children up to 12 years old. Here, families and expectant women receive more than a safe place. We help these women to rebuild their lives, secure housing and place them on a trajectory to stability.

• Most Coloradans know at least a little something about Samaritan House. The first building in the nation, located at 2301 Lawrence St, Denver CO 80205, was built specifically to serve people experiencing homelessness, Samaritan House has been a Denver staple since 1986. Since that time, thousands of people have been served and found safe shelter, nutritious meals and support services at Samaritan House. Today, our focus is primarily on serving women, families and veterans who are experiencing homelessness and food insecurity. The community we serve has evolved; our mission remains the same.

Statistics according to our 23/24 fiscal year:
• 410 children served with early childhood education, health exams, and other family support services
• 114,000 meals were provided to low-income children in Early Childhood Education
• 120 people in residence at Marisol Homes
• 225,000 nights of shelter provided across our shelters in Denver 

THE IMPACT OF YOUR GIFT:

Tori clutched her son Brock’s small hand as they stepped into Marisol Homes for the first time in early 2020. The weight of homelessness and the shadows of domestic violence seemed to lift when she got the call one winter day from a case manager at Marisol Homes, telling her they could move in right away.

“Marisol Homes opened the doors for me and provided me with the warmth we needed, when it was cold and scary for us to be outside. At the time, Brock and I were sleeping under highways, usually seeking a new one every night.”

“Marisol Homes put it in place so that I could raise my child. If it wasn’t for that safe space for my son, I would not be able to provide a good life for him. From where we were at before, it really saved both of our lives.”

The classes at Marisol Homes helped Tori’s confidence grow. She discovered a passion for working with animals and, with encouragement from the Marisol Homes staff and other moms, she enrolled in a dog grooming course.

Today, four years after moving out of Marisol Homes, Tori is fully booked, with clients waiting months to get on her calendar. For her, every day is another chance for her to perfect her craft. Tori saved enough money to get an apartment in Aurora that is both close to her work and Brock’s daycare. They even have two dogs of their own who get extra attention when mom is grooming them.

Tori loves to look at pictures from their days at Marisol Homes. She laughs as she scrolls through memories of the days of them eating in the Marisol Homes kitchen and playing outside on the playground. She’s forever grateful for the lifeline Marisol Homes provided when they needed it most.

Marisol Homes continues to support Tori and Brock with ongoing parenting classes that she joins virtually that support the ongoing growth of the parents who have called Marisol Homes home. “I am trying to break that generational curse of yelling and being impatient with my child. I want to give my son everything he deserves, and Marisol Homes has gone above and beyond to made sure I have the tools so that mine and his generations are in better hands.”