The Family Center Fiesta 2025

 The Family Center/La Familia has had the honor to serve our community for over 30 years. We celebrate our impact with supporters and guests at our annual Fiesta Party fundraising event! This is a lively event filled with delicious Mexican food, margaritas, dancing, salsa lesson, auctioned prizes, and more dancing! Our venue host, The Lyric, is the perfect setting, offering ideal open event space. Come dance with us!  This event is a way for our families, donors, board, and supporters to celebrate the impact we make in our community and the good work we do for our future: our youth. ***Tickets include entrance to the party, 2 drink tickets, fiesta food, live music, and the opportunity to bid on fantastic auction items. Our VIP ticket includes even more!  Why is this event important? The Fiesta is one of the biggest fundraising events for TFC/LF. Funds raised during the event go to directly impact the lives of children and families in Northern Colorado by providing affordable and accessible high-quality childcare and supportive family services to ensure that all families feel safe, supported and thriving. About The Family Center/ La Familia: Larimer County’s only family resource and early care and education center. The Family Center believes that every child, family and individual should feel safe, supported and thriving. What makes TFC different:  Sliding fee program w/ 100k in scholarships, Community garden, Utility assistance for 230+ families, Car seat classes and Advocacy closet with free hygiene products for 150+ families. The Family Center/ La Familia Impact * We distribute nearly $70,000 in scholarships a year through our sliding fee program to support working parents. * Our childhood program serves nearly 60 children per day. * We are the only non-profit childcare provider in our region that offers full wrap around services from infant to adult that benefit the whole family. * We have helped  278 families with utility assistance totaling  $134,251! * Our advocacy services assisted 80 households with rent assessment resources and continues to promote housing stability.  * 53 Car Seats Distribution & Education * 200+ children Adopt a Family Program * 34 Family Development Enrollments (Case management) * Our advocacy closet assists nearly 400 families each year with diapers and basic hygiene products * Our community garden provides families with fresh vegetables. We also use this produce in our kitchen to create meals for the children in our early childhood program. * For our center it costs $60,000 per year to feed the children enrolled in El Nidito breakfast, snack and lunch.