Congregational Legal Talk: Sheltering Vulnerable People
With Violeta Chapin, Associate Dean for Community and Culture and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School. 

Monday, April 28th
4:00 - 5:30 pm MDT

On-Site: Montview Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia St, Denver, CO 80220
Online: Zoom

Please register whether you plan to attend on-site or online to help us with hospitality planning. Thank you!

Faith leaders, clergy, and congregational decision makers are invited to learn about legal frameworks for sheltering vulnerable people. This talk and Q&A will include topics of:

  • Harboring - do's and don'ts, risks, risk mitigation, public presence, etc

  • Public vs private spaces in faith communities

  • The Trump immigration registration process, which went into effect on April 11th

Professor Violeta Chapin is an Associate Dean & Clinical Professor of Law at Colorado Law School in Boulder. Prof. Chapin directs the Immigration Defense Clinic, and she and her students represent noncitizen clients in a wide variety of legal proceedings, in both state and federal court. Prof. Chapin joined the Colorado Law faculty in August of 2009 after serving for seven years as a trial attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Prof. Chapin attended college at Columbia University and received her law degree from New York University School of Law.

Organizers: Juniper Formation United Church of Christ, Montview Presbyterian Church, Mountain View United Church, St Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Aurora, Highlands United Methodist Church, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Interfaith Immigration Network

Sponsors: Denver Presbytery, The Episcopal Church in Colorado, Montview Presbyterian Church, Colorado Council of Churches, and the Mountain Sky Conference of the United Methodist Church


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We are building an interfaith and ecumenical congregational crisis response network in Metro Denver to support and provide safe, temporary crisis sheltering and care for vulnerable populations including immigrants, LGBTQ+, those seeking reproductive healthcare, and other populations who become vulnerable. We hope this network model can be replicated in other communities.

The idea is to develop geographic localized teams of faith communities to respond to localized crises to protect and care for the wider community. When one team is activated in response to a crisis, surrounding teams offer support. Together we can build a care network.

This Congregational Legal Talk event is part of this larger movement and vision. 

Would you like to learn more or join this work?

If you would like one of our organizers to reach out to you, please include your phone number, the best way to reach you, and any additional questions or comments. - Rev. Wayne Laws (onawalk@comcast.net) & Rev. Dr. Jenny Whitcher (jenny@juniperformation.org)
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Estamos construyendo una red congregacional interreligiosa y ecuménica de respuesta a crisis en el área metropolitana de Denver para apoyar y brindar refugio temporal y seguro en situaciones de crisis, así como atención a poblaciones vulnerables, como inmigrantes, personas LGBTQ+, personas que buscan atención médica reproductiva y otras poblaciones vulnerables. Esperamos que este modelo de red se pueda replicar en otras comunidades.

La idea es desarrollar equipos de comunidades religiosas con ubicaciones geográficas específicas para responder a crisis locales y proteger y cuidar a la comunidad en general. Cuando un equipo se activa en respuesta a una crisis, los equipos circundantes ofrecen apoyo. Juntos podemos construir una red de atención.

Esta Charla Legal Congregacional forma parte de este movimiento y visión más amplios.

¿Le gustaría obtener más información o unirse a esta labor?

Si desea que uno de nuestros organizadores se ponga en contacto con usted, incluya su número de teléfono, la mejor manera de contactarlo y cualquier pregunta o comentario adicional. - Rev. Wayne Laws (onawalk@comcast.net) y Rev. Dra. Jenny Whitcher (jenny@juniperformation.org)
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