Broomfield Youth, Nonprofits Band Together to Serve Neighbors in Need

Kiana Wageman, left, works with two patrons of The Refuge to unload the donations she collected as part of her work with Broomfield FISH’s Youth Engagement Squad. (Kiana Wageman, Broomfield Enterprise – Courtesy photo).

By Corbett Stevenson, Broomfield Enterprise · Published January 17, 2025

As part of Broomfield FISH’s Youth Engagement Squad, one Broomfielder donated over 80 care packages to the county’s homeless population.

Broomfield Fellowship in Serving Humanity, the community’s food bank and resource center known as FISH, uses its Youth Engagement Squad to bring together young Broomfielders to do good in the community.

“As a 17 year old, cost of living and poverty isn’t on my mind as much, but it’s been really eye-opening to learn more about how much things cost and how expensive things are,” Madison Newbold said. Newbold is the Youth Engagement Squad’s co-communication chair, and said that the service projects squad members complete are a great way for students to get involved and help their community.

“I think it’s really important to get more kids involved, and it’s really nice connecting with a wide group of people that all have different interests but all have the same goal of helping others and connecting within the community,” she said.

For one of the squad’s recent service projects, Kiana Wageman chose to put together a large number of care packages for homeless people living in Broomfield late last year, working with local nonprofit The Refuge on a project that took over 100 people to execute.

“I collaborated with several organizations and nonprofits, and ran a donation drive at our church,” she said. “We collected over 400 items in donations and had a day of service where over 150 people helped assemble the care packages.”

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