Our about
We provide compassionate water and trash services for people experiencing homelessness in Denver, Colorado
Every Sunday - Family Friendly
Benedict Fountain Park @10 am
10am | Arrival & Training
10:30 - 12:30pm | Service
12:30 - 1pm | Clean & Close
Required Items:
Gloves (Provided)
Completed Form & Waiver
Closed Toe Shoes
Recommended Items:
Pants, Hat, Sunglasses
Headwaters Protectors services encampments every Sunday. We believe everyone deserves basic access to water, health, and sanitation. We offer essential mutual aid resources to our volunteers and community members in order to serve the unhoused encampments, like training in harm reduction, trash collection, needles, and sharps containment, providing water services, offering live-action exercises in emergency shelter planning, along with social justice advocacy like acknowledging and honoring indigenous people. The group has trained over 600 volunteers in the two years.
The group also distributes health equity supplies such as sunscreen, menstrual products, condoms, reusable water bottles, drug testing strips, NARCAN, and safe needs disposal boxes we receive through partnership with Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center, a public health agency working to reduce harms associated with drug use. Headwaters Protectors services encampments every Sunday.