Cherry Creek Schools Leadership Academy

Cherry Creek Schools Foundation is proud to have funded the Cherry Creek Leadership Academy, a yearlong program that aims to break the cycle of violence while empowering students as community leaders. Leadership Academy launched as a response to a tragic wave of violence in March of 2022. The program re-engages students with education and their community, working to prevent youth violence through a grassroots approach. Thanks to supporters like you and the support of our community, the program has since secured more than one million in grants from the City of Aurora as well as Arapahoe County.

In the News

Cherry Creek Leadership Academy students reflect on experiences (January 2026)

Leadership Academy Continuation and Celebration (June 2025)

Window to Wellness (April 2025)

CCSD Leadership Academy students present to NAACP Aurora chapter (January 2024)

Summer Leadership Academy students celebrate with transition ceremony (November 2023)

Colorado Black Caucus of School Board Directors honors Jasper Armstrong (March 2023)

Summer Leadership Academy students reflect on lessons (January 2023)

Urban Leadership Foundation of Colorado honors Jasper Armstrong (November 2022)

Summer Leadership Academy connects students with community, goals, solutions (August 2022)

CBS: Young People Build Leadership And Connections To Curb Aurora Gun Violence (June 2022)

Colorado Sentinel: Cherry Creek launches summer leadership academy for at-risk students with goal of curbing youth violence (June 2022)