LDC’s tenth class releases white paper
Leadership Douglas County (LDC) celebrated the graduation of its tenth class at a ceremony held at Cherokee Ranch & Castle on June 2. Pictured above is the Class of 2010: Steve Brown – Douglas County Assessor’s Office; Tom Carter – Douglas County Community Foundation, Susan Chesnick – South Metro Fire and Rescue Authority; Deb Dalla – Flying Horse Catering, JoAnn “JJ” Dedmon – Parker Chamber of Commerce, Diane Doney – Douglas County School District; Mike Dunagan – FirstBank of Parker , David Farnan – Douglas County Libraries; Taylor Goertz – TST Inc. of Denver, Peter Goldstein – Gubbels Law Office; Debi Haning – DTH Properties, LLC; Kristin Hayek – KDVR/KWGN TV ; Steve Hebert – City of Lone Tree; Ken Joseph – Highlands Ranch Community Association; Mike Lyons – Douglas County Government; Roy Mapp – Metro District of Highlands Ranch; Rich Martin – Castle Rock Fire and Rescue; Skye Noe – JP Morgan/Chase; Carole Schumacher – BRC Real Estate; Susan Thayer – Sport Clips; Lora Thomas – Elbert County Coroner’s Office; Darren Weekly – Douglas County Sheriff’s Office; Randy Weldon – Douglas County School District.
By Terri Wiebold with information provided by Thomas Carter, Leadership Douglas County
The Leadership Douglas County (LDC) graduating class of 2010 released the results of a six-month quantitative and qualitative analysis entitled “Human Needs and Services in Douglas County: A Stakeholders’ Assessment.”
Local Castle Pines Village resident Thomas Carter was among the graduating class of 2010. According to Carter, who participated on behalf of the Douglas County Community Foundation, the class’ project features interviews with the county’s human services stakeholders, including government agencies, service providers, elected officials and key business leaders, and the results sumarized in the white paper are astounding.
“Despite an extremely optimistic outlook on the quality of life among stakeholders in Douglas County now and in the future, the LDC white paper findings identify a significant increase in human services needs; a doubling of poverty, homelessness and reports of child abuse in the past three years; and levels of charitable giving (as a percentage of per capita income) is stagnant,” stated Thomas.
Douglas County Commissioner Jack Hilbert said the white paper study will go a long way in helping elected officials prioritize resources and revenue in the areas that can provide the greatest good. “This project is but one step in many that involve making sure our most vulnerable members of the community receive the necessary attention to their situation,” stated Hilbert.
LDC’s class of 2010 presents the results of its white paper study at a breakfast meeting sponsored by at Sky Ridge Medical Center.
To read Class 2010’s white paper, go to www.ldc2010.com. To learn more about LDC, visit www.leadershipdouglascounty.com.
