Programs & Services: Service Agencies
Community Participation
A Better Life Experience, Inc. (Able)
Kendra Wilson
Director
303-920-9279 ext 105
kendra@ablecolorado.com
www.ablecolorado.com
Looking for long-term host home placement? Need a job, but want minimum wage? Perhaps volunteering, bowling or life skill classes is your thing…
A Better Life Experience, Inc. (ABLE) is a family owned & operated day service & residential agency. We believe everyone wants to be part of something bigger than themselves: to belong, contribute, have purpose & feel good about one’s self.
This philosophy applies, to those we serve & those we employ, creating positive and respectful environments where people are safe and providers are responsive.
Use our experience & education to your benefit. We would love to help!
Aspire Beyond
Matt Lanza
Managing Director
303-463-4900
www.aspirebeyond.com
Quality and Variety in Daily Activities
On Site:
Computers, Life Skills, Meal Prep, Reading and Math, Puzzles, Games, Crafts, Individual and Group Activities
In the Community:
Volunteering, Bowling, Recreation (Swimming, Basketball. Workout), Dining Out, Movies, & Entertainment
In the Workplace:
Employment and Income Opportunities
Choice Living Services
Shannan Buchenberger
Executive Director
303-371-6700
Choicelivingmail@yahoo.com
clsmail2shannon@yahoo.com
Excellence in support services for adults of all ages with developmental disabilities. Comprehensive (IRSS & ADSS) and Supported Living Services.
Day Program base-site facility and Administrative Office is located in the Margaret Walters Center at 12665 W. 52nd Avenue, Arvada, CO 80002. We’re open M-Th. Feel free to come visit and see for yourself how pleasant, caring and professional we are. Choose to experience the difference CLS makes!
Community Advantage
Marc Cowell
Director
303-517-3572
mcowell@rescare.com
www.rescare.com
Community Advantage is a human services company dedicated to helping people in need. We combine respect, compassion, and skill to offer quality service to a diverse population.
Community Advantage provides residential host home, day program, employment and Supported Living Services for individuals with developmental disabilities in Jefferson County.
Comprehensive Community Based Services
Nicholas Decilla
Executive Director
303-671-6042
CCBS555@msn.com
Comprehensive Community Based Services (CCBS) is a Program Approved Service Agency through Developmental Disabilities Resource Center which provides 1 to 1 day program services. The intent of CCBS day program is to provide quality, consumer-focused supports with the overall outcome to increase independence, skill-building and enhance community connections. CCBS provides Supported Living and Comprehesnsive Day program Services to consumers. Services include Community Access, Mentorship, Household, Community Integrated Employment, Supervision and Personal Assistance.
Cottonwood Community Alternatives, Inc.
Cindy Opheim
Director/CEO
303-761-6487
copheim@cottonwoodca.org
www.cottonwoodca.org
Cottonwood is a non-profit agency that provides services to adults with developmental disabilities. Our mission is to provide a variety of community based supports and services to these individuals, empowering them to live as independently and productively as possible while promoting individual choice, dignity, and quality of life. We encourage participation of family and friends in maintaining regular involvement in individuals lives.
Cottonwood offers residential services including staffed home and apartment settings and host home settings, day program services of base site and community access activities, SLS services, and support for individuals who are employed.
DDRC
Art Hogling
Executive Director
303-233-3363
info@ddrcco.com
www.ddrcco.com
We provide leading-edge services that create opportunities for people with developmental disabilities and their families to participate fully in the community. Quality, dignity and choice are the values of DDRC.
Dungarvin Colorado
Dan Griffin
Senior Director
303-423-7660
dgriffin@dungarvin.com
www.dungarvin.com
Dungarvin mission is to respect and respond to the choices of people with developmental disabilities. We are passionate about listening to and supporting children and adult preferences, interests, desires and goals. We take great pride in our 30 plus years of experience helping people to create and enjoy a life of their choosing.
Dungarvin provides residential, day, employment and child placement services in the Denver Metro and Colorado Springs areas. Services include adult host homes in which a person in services chooses to live with a provider in the providers home; Personal Care Alternatives in which 24 hour support is available to persons living in their own home; Supported Living Services for persons needing less than 24 hour supports in their own homes; day programs which promote access the community in a variety of ways; employment opportunities in a non-integrated work-site where participants are paid an hourly wage; and child placement services specializing in supporting the needs of foster children with developmental disabilities.
Good Shepherd Communities
Melissa Peterson
Area Director
303-795-2061
mpeterso@blhs.org
www.blhs.org
Good Shepherd Communities is a national organization providing services and supports to children and adults with developmental disabilities. Our Rocky Mountain Region serves people in the Denver and surrounding area and northern Colorado. Services include residential and community supports. We are excited to announce the beginning development of our McGregor Senior Center, which will cater to seniors with disabilities. Good Shepherd Communities celebrates over 50 years of successful operation.
Independence+
Roy Morrison
Owner
303-229-2125
ruadhbod@aol.com
Independence + encourages community interaction and participation through
volunteering and community education.
Integrated Support Services, Inc.
Jeff McNeal
President
720-404-1985
jeff@integratedsupport.org
www.integratedsupport.org
We provide support service for all abilities levels. Our programs are designed with the individual needs of all participants in mind, while our over all focus is on dignity, self accomplishment, independence and community integration
Interaction Resources D.D.D. Corp.
Jimmie Coffey
Executive Director
303-904-7497
irdddc@qwest.net
www.interactionresources.com
OUR MISSION
Interaction Resources D.D.D. Corp. is a Corporation that responds to the needs of persons with developmental disabilities.
Interaction Resources believes in the worth of all persons. In this context, each program of care for each developmentally disabled person is individualized to best meet that persons needs.
Interaction Resources affirms the capacity for growth in every human being. It is dedicated to providing the opportunity for each developmentally disabled person to attain his or her full potential.
Interaction Resources is committed to excellence in service delivery. It is pledged to quality services that are operated in a financially responsible manner.
Interaction Resources is accountable to the developmentally disabled person,his/her family, and its contractors.
Laradon
Timothy C. Hall
Executive Director
303-296-2400
www.laradon.org
Laradon's mission is to be an organization of excellence that provides superior services to children and adults with developmental disabilities and other special needs to help them realize their full potential and maximize self-sufficiency.
Shalom Denver
Arnie Kover
Director of Disabilitiy Services
303-623-0251
akover@jewishfamilyservice.org
www.shalomdenver.com
SHALOM Denver, a division of Jewish Family Service of Colorado has provided vocational traning and job placement services for over 50 years. Our programs include: work assessment and work in a packaging and assembly and bulk mail setting, individualized job placement services and long term on the job support, small group community employment and individual and group commuinity access services.
Support, Incorporated
Cindy Eisenhand
Director of Marketing
303-340-0322
cindy@supportinc.com
www.supportinc.com
The person with a barrier, challenge, or disability is at the center of the Support, Inc. family—a family that includes community- based helping professionals, support staff, Behavioral Specialists, a Nursing department, and a dedicated Management Team.
Support, Inc. strives to provide community- based services that result in quality lifestyles, characterized by community belonging, and personal decision-making. All Support, Inc. services are community-based and tied to “best-practices” in the community. We take pride in our responsiveness, our quality of care, and our excellent reputation.
We promise that we will maintain our focus on the things that are important to you. We want you to be successful, we want you to have friends, we want you to be safe and healthy, and to be able to make choices. We will always keep these things in mind.
Community Participation Day Services— is a facility based program of therapeutic and community based activities.
Residential Services—provides 24 hour support, supervision, and care in a safe family-like environment, primarily a host home setting.
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