CDHS: Division of Youth Services
The CDHS Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides for the care and supervision of youth committed by the District Court to the custody of CDHS. DYS operates 15 secure youth centers that serve youth between the ages of 10-21 who are pre-adjudicated or committed. In addition to residential programming, DYS administers juvenile parole services throughout Colorado.
Elevating Connections
Their mission is strengthening families! The sibling relationship is the longest relationship in most of our lives, at Camp to Belong we help brothers and sisters regain a lost sense of permanency and connection by strengthening their sibling relationships
Fire Mountain Programs
Fire Mountain is a residential treatment center in the Colorado Rockies where troubled teens are taught the tools to allow them the opportunity to transform into more responsible, thoughtful, and confident teens. Using the latest rehabilitation innovations in treatment, along with traditional methods proven to be effective, our troubled team program’s goal is long-term healing, recovery and success for all teens and their families. Let us help your teen find the path to becoming their best self.
From Silenced to Saved
We are a third-party case management organization assisting governmental agencies in their efforts to help victims by optimizing services. We offer many services such as, mentoring, first responding, scene presence, Risk and Case Management, and for those who qualify an individual safe housing program to anyone who has experienced Sexual Trauma. Our target ages are 11-19.
Fully Liberated Youth (FLY)
We seek to restore dignity and foster secure attachments with incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and high-risk young people through redemptive and restorative relationships that are focused on healing, mercy, mutuality, tenderness, and kinship.
Gilliam Youth Services Center
Denver Area Youth For Christ has provided religious services, Bible studies, and pastoral care to the youths on a voluntary basis since the late 1960’s. And for most of those years, their Chaplains have provided oversight, supervision, and training to a variety of churches and individuals who have faithfully ministered at the facility.
GirlVentures
GirlVentures’ provide an abundance of tools and teachings as part of our programs. To take our support a step further, we’ve gathered a series of resources for families, friends, and fans of GirlVentures. Discover downloadable and online tools as well as other organizations working toward greater inclusivity and equity for youth in the outdoors.
Groundwork Denver
The Youth Teams are a core program of Groundwork Denver, focused on providing nature experiences and paid environmental opportunities for teens and young adults. With a focus on hiring youth from neighborhoods most impacted by environmental injustices, Groundwork Denver seeks youth from Westwood, Northeast Park Hill, Montbello, Northwest Aurora, Commerce City, Sheridan, Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, Cole, Five Points, and nearby areas. Our goal is to provide opportunities for young people to get involved and lead environmental action, stewardship, and community outreach.
Heavy Hands Heavy Heart Center
The mission of Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts (HHHH) is to provide an educational, friendly, entertaining, and safe place that helps youth and adults acquire essential skills and knowledge to become self-sufficient, and to resist negative influences that can compromise the quality of their lives. HHHH will provide a safe and unique learning environment to ensure that they will gain the tools needed to succeed in life.
Helen & Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center (CU Anschutz Medical Campus)
Improving the lives of people with depression and mood disorders through clinical excellence, innovative research, community programs, and education.
INSPiRE
The mission of INSPiRE is to ignite, train, and invest in youth to become Change Agents in their schools, families and communities.
Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center
Youth corrections. Restorative Justice processes are efforts to find "common ground" between the Victim, Community, and Offender. Restorative Justice is a mechanism of achieving the goals of the community. It is a model within the framework of community justice which emphasizes that crime is a violation of individuals, communities, and relationships and "creates an obligation to make things right". It includes all responses to crime aimed at doing justice by repairing the harm that the crime causes.
Metro Youth Alliance
Metro Youth Alliance is a YAB made up of former and current foster care youth, and youth with other backgrounds, who work together to improve the experience of youth in foster care, and collaborate to identify projects they would like to pursue to improve their communities
Open Door
We strive to establish credible education, sustained resources and life-altering relationships with at-risk youth, their families and the communities affected by gang culture, violence, and recruitment by providing alternative positive and structured activities, family support and gang intervention services.
Star Girlz Empowerment, Inc.
Our programs and services are open to young ladies ages 10-25, and each STAR has access to a variety of Mentoring, Empowering, and Transformational activities to remind them that they are STARZ, and it’s time to S.H.I.N.E!
Teen Parent Collaborative (TPC)
The Teen Parent Collaborative is a unified community of organizations that strives to build capacity and connection for our members and advocate for teen parents and their children.
The Commons (Denver Public Schools)
Family and Youth Services utilizes innovative strategies to support students, families and schools, leveraging a multi-generation approach and partnering with community organizations to provide whole child and wrap around supports and programming.
The Happy Crew
Support Group. Every Monday night, we gather together for dinner, discussion, learning, and community. Happy Crew provides a welcoming, safe, inclusive, helpful, fun, heart-warming, positive, happy, caring, loving, passionate, free-speaking, hopeful, wholesome, fulfilling, joyful environment every week and we love our time together. All you need to do is text Amy at 303-916-1515 for the location! During our group discussion, we strategize about ways to reach out and help friends and fellow students. We concentrate on being involved in making it socially acceptable to be vulnerable and share when you are dealing with anxiety, depression, fear, sadness, or suicidal thoughts.
Tennyson Center for Children
We provide a safe, stable home for kids 5-18 who are facing critical circumstances and need residential care; an accredited, therapeutic K-12 school with a 4:1 student-to-staff ratio on our campus; and in-home and community services in 19 counties across the state to provide preventive services and therapy to strengthen families with children aged 0 to adulthood.
WinGate Wilderness Therapy
At WinGate, we provide an Actual Wilderness Experience (A.W.E.), in which the wilderness environment itself plays a vital role in the therapeutic process. Away from the negative influences and distractions that often disrupt their world, our students are free to engage in a process of personal healing that offers introspection and clarity in a way few other systems can. Supported by professional clinicians and caring field staff, your child will receive a personalized treatment plan as part of the best therapeutic experience available.