Serving Colorado's San Luis Valley since 1982, La Puente seeks to meet immediate needs and to empower people to live independently, with dignity.

Colorado’s San Luis Valley is a vast, isolated, geographic expanse that experiences national-high rates of poverty. Poverty begets hunger, homelessness and other crises that destabilize families. La Puente is our community’s response to address the effects of poverty by providing a safety net of services, where individuals and families get what they need to stabilize, heal, strengthen, and ultimately thrive.

Annually over 16,000 individuals and family members receive at least one of our services, including emergency shelter, nutritious food from one of our 15 pantries, housing with support services, after-school youth-stabilization services, (educational gardens), homeless prevention resources, soup kitchen meals, home outreach visits, and more.