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In2005a trailer slated for the dumpwas transportedto Mapleton Mobile Home Park in ǸԹ and renovatedthere.Built by more than 50 CU ǸԹ students, the Trailer Wrap projectheldlessons for future project-based learning, including a CEDaR-led manufactured home renovation planned for this summer or fall, depending on the state of the pandemic.
For the past 12 years Growing Up ǸԹ wasa part ofCU ǸԹ's Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center. Now one of the most successful child-friendly city initiatives in the world, GUB istransitioning to an independentnonprofit, a model for how theuniversitycan develop, nurture and then spin offnonprofitactivities.
Growing Up ǸԹ and the city of ǸԹ, Colorado, are actively involving all stakeholders to make it a child- and youth-friendly city.
Professors Emeriti in CEDaR, Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet, co-authored a chapter on “Children’s Rights to Child-friendly Cities," which was published in the latest edition of the Handbook of Children’s Rights (Routledge, 2017).