[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 175 (Friday, October 9, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E935-E936]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HONORING SHELLEY McKITTRICK

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                            HON. JASON CROW

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 9, 2020

   Mr. CROW. Madam Speaker, it is my honor today to recognize the 
accomplishments of Ms. Shelley McKittrick and to congratulate her on 
her retirement.
   Throughout her career, Ms. McKittrick has dedicated herself to 
public service and has been a tireless advocate for those experiencing 
homelessness and housing instability. She served as the City of 
Aurora's Homelessness Program Director and led a pathway for 
prioritizing the need for homelessness and housing instability 
solutions. In her role, she was instrumental to the opening of the 
Aurora Day Resource Center providing 150 people per day with meals, 
showers, counseling services, and other resources. She also served as 
the President of the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative for a year and 
continues to hold a seat on the Board.
   She also led the way for Aurora's Point in Time count, an annual 
U.S. Housing and Urban Development effort to account for the number of 
people in the nation experiencing homelessness. Her work not only gave 
housing to those directly impacted by homelessness in Aurora, but also 
strengthened numerous programs to help prioritize a change in how 
housing instability is handled.
   During an interview in 2016 when Ms. McKittrick had just started her 
work in Aurora, she said homelessness is, ``a large problem that has to 
be broken down into digestible, attackable pieces. And little by little 
. . . we can do this.''
   In the 4 years she was with Aurora and through countless hours of 
meaningful work, Ms. McKittrick proved her statement from 2016 true and 
showed our city that we can make efforts to beat homelessness. I wish 
her luck in this new chapter of her life and thank her greatly for the 
care and dedication she provided our community.

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