Programs & Services: Service Agencies
Facility Based Day Services
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ohana
Victoria Haskins
Director
303-940-7440
victoriahaskins@comcast.net
We give excellent care to those who live with us as if they were our family. We believe in giving all individuals dignity and respect and we are capable of finding anything they need and supporting them in reaching their goals.
Seniors Resource Center
Robert Wingate
Director, Public Relations & Marketing
303-238-8151
rwingate@SRCAging.org
www.SRCAging.org
Seniors Resource Center, a nonprofit organization, works in partnership with older adults and persons with disabilities in communities in metro Denver and mountainous areas to the west, providing centralized and coordinated service, information, education and leadership. Our board of directors, staff and volunteers are celebrating 30 years of providing community-based care to Colorado residents through Adult Day & Respite Services, In-Home Care, Transportation, Case Management, referrals to community partners, and Job Training.
Each year 12,000 individuals obtain direct servies from the organization. Seniors Resource Center provides services in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson and Park counties.
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.
Starpoint
Julie Nelson
Denver Director
303-238-1600
jnelson@starpointco.org
www.starpointco.org
Starpoint provides essential services to two vulnerable populations: kids, prenatal through five years of age, and their families, and adults with cognitive and physical challenges. We have been providing services and supports to individuals, families, and communities in Fremont, Chaffee, and Custer Counties since 1977. We began providing adult services in Front Range communities in 2001.
