Beacon Center is pleased to announce the opening of our Crisis Connection Program.  If you have an interest in mental health care for kids and families in Colorado, you want to find out about the services we offer with this new program.  Please join us for something to eat, a tour of our facility, and information about this exciting treatment option.

Wednesday, June 9

11:30 am

Crisis Connection Program
3804 W. Princeton Circle
Denver, CO 80236 US

303-761-6756

RSVP: kcaruso@beaconcenter.org

For more information about Crisis Connection Program follow the link to the article published in this week’s Aurora Sentinel
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/articles/2010/06/04/news/metro_aurora/doc4c07ccef6672c217669627.txt

Beacon Youth and Family Center has expanded their services to include an innovative program serving kids who need immediate mental health treatment, but who do not require hospitalization.  In coordination with behavioral health organizations and community mental health clinics, Beacon Center has designed a program, which provides a level of care not currently available in the Denver area.

When a family takes a child to the emergency room because of a behavioral or mental health crisis, the primary option in the past was hospitalization. But hospitalization often does not address the young person’s individual needs, it does not involve the family from which the issues may have originated and it is very expensive.

Beacon Center’s Crisis Connection Program addresses the needs of both the child and the family directly. Through Crisis Connection, when a family brings a child to the emergency room because of a behavioral crisis, a community mental health clinic will contact Beacon Center. Staff will be available seven days a week, 24 hours a day to meet the child and family at the hospital and bring the child to our residential facility to have a safe place to sleep and a hot meal. Meanwhile, Beacon Center staff make an appointment to meet with the family the next day when a clinical assessment of both the child and family is completed.  Within three to five days, child and family are reunited with a long-term, out-patient plan. Intensive, individualized therapy starts immediately and continues over the next few months.

Crisis Connection Program is unique–the family is engaged immediately, while the crisis is fresh in their minds and they are open and willing to undergo therapy. Crisis Connection staff are available every day, any time of day to respond to children in need and families in crisis.  Finally, Crisis Connection is the first step in a long-term treatment plan that serves as the starting point to improving lives.

For further information about Crisis Connection Program, please feel free to contact Michael Guthrie at mguthrie@beaconcenter.org

24 hour Crisis Connection Phone Number: 303- 789- 0200

For additional information download our brochure: CCP brochure

Beacon Center is pleased to announce the opening of our Crisis Connection Program.  If you have an interest in mental health care for kids and families in Colorado, you want to find out about the services we offer with this new program.  Please join us for something to eat, a tour of our facility, and information about this exciting treatment option.

Wednesday, June 9

11:30 am

Crisis Connection Program
3804 W. Princeton Circle
Denver, CO 80236 US

303-761-6756

RSVP: kcaruso@beaconcenter.org

For more information about Crisis Connection Program follow the link to the article published in this week’s Aurora Sentinel
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/articles/2010/06/04/news/metro_aurora/doc4c07ccef6672c217669627.txt

Inside a packed ballroom feeling much more like 1940’s Morocco than the Hyatt DTC, the attendees of the Cherish the Children’s annual Gala came together in a strong show of support for the organization.  The highlights of the night, chaired by Nancy Sevo and Loretta Kelce, included the awarding of the Golden Cherub Award to longtime and steadfast supporters, Pat and Annabel Bowl, the awarding of the Corporate Community Service Award to High Sierra Energy LP, some very unique live auction items, the Jerry Barnett Band, and the honoring of the late director of the Beacon Center and the establishment of the Anne Robinson Fund.

As an agency we are so thankful and touched each year by the support of each and every single person and this year’s Gala was particularly special to the Beacon Youth and Family Center.  Without the support of the Cherish the Children Guild and every donor Beacon could not provide the level of support to youth and their families that we currently do and we could not continue to pave the way into a new and innovative future for the mental health care of children in Denver.

Please follow the links to the wonderful articles in the Denver Post:

http://www.denverpost.com/society/ci_15129142

There are so many people to thank – and we couldn’t have done it without every single person’s help!

Special thanks to our Live Auction Donors:

The Denver Broncos

Holly Kyleberg

The Bistro Boys

Mondo Vino

Event Rents

Denver Lincoln Limo

Bill and Jan Sanger

Special Thanks to our Media Sponsors:

CBS4 and our MC Vic Lombardi

Denver Magazine

Special Thanks to all our Silent Auction Donors!

Special Thanks to our Casablanca Sponsor:
Pat and Annabel Bowlen & The Denver Broncos

Special Thanks to our Bogart and Bergman Sponsor:

American National Bank

Special Thanks to our “Play it again, Sam” Sponsors:

Emergency Medical Services Coorporation

Tom and Cydney Marsico

Anna and John J. Sie Foundation

Special Thanks to our “As time goes by…” Sponsors:

Sue and Harvey Allon – Oak Tree Foundation

Bernie and Amy Dvorak

John Gowen

Liberty Global

Mike Leprino Family Foundation

Morrison Brown Argiz & Farra, LLP

Jane and Skip Netzorg

Kevin and Ann Reidy

Bruce and Sally Rogers

Nancy and John Sevo

Special Thanks to our “Here’s looking at you, kid” sponsors:

J. William Artist and Associates, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Biehl

Kay and Jim Burke

Linda Chowdry and John Blue

Joe and Ann Ellis

Peter Emily International Veterinary Foundation

Fleishman and Shapiro

High Sierra Energy, LP

HUB International

Rusty and Loretta Kelce

Brenda and Mark King

Edie and Mort Marks

Mike Miller – Miller and Steiert

Nordstrom

Oakwood Homes Foundation

Robinson Waters & O’Dorsio

Marilyn and Stuart Spinner

US Bank

Walter Imhoff

Additional thanks to:

The Jerry Barnett Orchestra

Ruth Corbin and Integrity Print Group

Casey Gent

Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center

Kelli Kindel Events, Inc.

Cheryl Lebsock

Bolder Events

Paula Newberry – Arnold and Lindsey Reed

Newberry Brothers Greenhouse and Florist

Marc Roth and James Pfister – Art Direction and Gala Design

Doug Tisdale

AND MANY MANY THANKS TO OUR GALA COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

Loretta Kelce and Nancy Sevo – Gala Co-Chairs

Layne Hunt Fleishman – Live Auction Chair

Douglas Kerbes – Silent Auction Chair

Vance and Rebecca Wagner – Corporate Chairs

Judianne Atencio – Media Chair

Kay Burke and Edna Chang-Grant – Patron Party Chairs

Coco Tralla – Ticket Chair

Jamie Angelich – Invitation

Jamie Angelich – Invitation Chair

Anne Donley and Lydell Peterson – Young Professionals Chairs

Marc Roth and James Pfister – Artistic Direction and Gala Design

And to everyone who helped behind the scenes and who attended the gala!