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What's in a name? Name an integrated human services center

• My employer, a nonprofit in the Denver Metro area, is opening an integrated human services center. We desperately need a name. The Center (what I have been calling it) will be a place where someone can go to access numerous different services under one roof. Partners include County human services, County workforce, and numerous small human services nonprofits. Services include: job search, job skills, housing counseling, accessing benefits, credit review and repair, budgeting help, income tax filing assistance, and more. Classes that will be offered: financial literacy, GED, adult basic education, health and wellness, parenting, anger management, and more. For services and classes that are not offered, our plan is to provide guided referrals where a staff person, or volunteer, helps to connect a client with the service provider - as opposed to just giving out a flyer and sending someone on their way. The Center is small. It is only a few thousand square feet and consists of one large space that we anticipate will be primarily used for classes and two small offices that will be used for one-on-one meetings and general office stuff. It is the exact opposite of the gigantic six-story building that houses County human services. Some qualities and descriptors that we may like to emphasize, if possible: community, small, friendly, self-sufficiency, empowerment, etc. The neighborhood and area doesn't have a unique name. It is very low-income, naturally, but is in a suburb that is wealthy. It is also in the far corner of a county so any geographic names are out because we don't want people to think they aren't welcome if they come from a neighboring city/county. We anticipate (due to neighborhood demographics) that the clients will be about half Hispanic and half white with a smattering of other race/ethnicities. I have Googled. I have brainstormed. I have polled staff. I have worked with a small group of stakeholders. None of this is working. I now turn to you. Please suggest a name or barring that, please suggest a process to get to a name.

• Answer:

  There is a similar place in Greensboro, NC called the "http://gsodaycenter.org/." When speaking in "shorthand," I refer to them as the "Day Center" sometimes.