The city of Aurora and nonprofit Advance Pathways were finally able to cut the ribbon Thursday on their brand-new, state-of-the-art Aurora Regional Navigation Campus aimed at helping the unhoused in the community.

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"Change doesn't just happen one person at a time," said Shantell Anderson, the campus' director of programs. "It happens when we build systems that honor people's dignity, potential and resilience."

No one knows how important services like this are more than Anderson. A Denver native, she herself overcame addiction and homelessness.

"It took me three years to get sober; three hard years," Anderson explained. "But, once I did, I was unstoppable. I got Section 8 housing. I reunited with my children, and I went back to school. I earn

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