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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Colorado. At Drug Rehab Colorado we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Colorado, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Colorado. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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New Colorado shelter to give teens a roof, bedLottie Elliott’s face is etched with pain.
Her father was killed last year in a motorcycle accident near Manitou Springs, Colorado.
She was a baby when her mother left. Elliott hasn’t seen her since.
Elliott has struggled with motherhood herself because of her addiction to methamphetamines.
Her 4-year-old daughter is in the custody of her aunt and uncle. And her 6-week-old son died earlier this year of respiratory problems that she blames on her use of drugs during the pregnancy.
And Elliott is only 20.
“This year has been the hardest year of my life,” Elliott said recently as she finished off a sandwich at the Marian House Soup Kitchen at 14 W. Bijou St.
As if the personal tragedies weren’t enough, Elliott can never be sure where she’s going to spend the night. She regards that as an inconvenience more than anything else, considering all she’s been through.
Since she was 13, she’s been living on and off the streets of Colorado Springs, Colorado sleeping in parks, under bridges, behind buildings, in carports — wherever she can find a place to lay her body down.
She’s one of an estimated 340 teenagers and young adults who are homeless in the city. And their numbers are steadily increasing — by as much as 10 percent each year, according to Urban Peak, a homeless advocacy group that keeps tabs on them and tries to get them off the streets.
Broken homes. Drug abuse. A lousy economy. Those factors often lead teens to take to the streets.
Homelessness can be defined in many ways.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, it’s “lacking a fixed and stable night time residence,” said Andrea Falver, program director for Urban Peak.
G.K. falls in that category. A 17-year-old homosexual, he’s been sleeping on friends’ couches since his parents gave him an ultimatum in July: change his sexual orientation or get out of the house.
He left.
A few times he hung outside the Hide N’ Seek, a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado and slept with men — if that’s what it took to get into a warm house and bed.
“I did things that I wasn’t proud of,” he said, looking down at the cafeteria table at the soup kitchen. “But I had no choice: My parents told me to either go straight and become a Christian or I wouldn’t been able to live under their roof.
“I always thought it was a big contradiction.”
A couple times he slept in Acacia Park, but that turned out to be “very scary,” he said, because he didn’t know whether he’d survive the night.
Within a month, he turned to Urban Peak for help. The agency gave him food and clothing, and he’s now staying with a friend.
Urban Peak workers know the needs of the city’s homeless youth go beyond food and clothing.
That’s why the agency bought an old warehouse in the 400 block of East Cucharras Street. It plans to convert it to a 20-bed homeless shelter for teenagers and young adults, ages 15-20, who can stay as long as 120 days, said John McIlwee, Urban Peak’s executive director.
“This isn’t just a place where they’re going to get ‘a hot and a cot,’ ” said McIlwee. “They’re going to have to sign contracts, get their GEDs, receive drug and mental counseling, if need be, and look for jobs.”
The shelter, scheduled to open by next spring, will be the second youth homeless facility in Colorado. It will serve what homeless advocates often describe as a “a hidden population.”
The other shelter, with 40 beds, is in Denver, Colorado.
The new shelter in Colorado Springs, Colorado will be licensed by the Colorado State Department of Institutions, a branch of Colorado’s Department of Health and Human services.
Urban Peak bought the 14,000-square-foot building in mid-August for $380,000. Most of it came from a $175,000 grant from the El Pomar Foundation, and the rest from state and federal grants and individuals, McIlwee said.
The acquisition is an example of how problems can be solved through partnerships in Colorado Springs, Colorado a city with numerous non-profit organizations and service providers.
Homeward Pikes Peak, a non-profit group whose mission is to foster relationships between service providers and charitable organizations, recommended the grant after noting a demand for the shelter.
Trustees for the El Pomar Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the Rocky Mountain West, agreed to the proposal.
“I think it’s a problem if we have one homeless teenager on the street,” said Bob Holmes, executive director of Homeward Pikes Peak. “For some, it’s a cool thing to do. For others, it’s escaping an abusive situation at home, and that’s potentially tragic. They don’t have the same abilities to get help because of their age.”
Enter Urban Peak.
Located on the second floor of the Marian House Soup Kitchen, it hooks up homeless youth with temporary shelter, whether it’s placing them in motels, helping them find jobs or providing them the basics of food and clothing.
But in its three years of trying to help homeless youth, Urban Peak has struggled with some issues.
For example, 60 percent of the homeless youth come from families with histories of substance abuse, and 40 percent have been sexually or physically abused.
Roughly 80 percent are from Colorado Springs, Colorado 15 percent are from out of Colorado, and 5 percent are “jelly beans” — wannabes who are on the streets for kicks.
Then there’s this: 95 percent of the 500 homeless youth that walked through the soup kitchen’s doors in the last three years have told case workers they’ve tried to commit suicide, said Falvey.
“I’ve seen the scars,” she said, “but you can’t always tell by the scars from the cutting. Sometimes, it’s drug overdoses or they try to hang themselves.”
A few years ago, one 18-year-old man from Colorado Springs, Colorado would dress in black and dart into traffic along heavily traveled streets.
Urban Peak managed to counsel the teen and stop his suicide attempts. But he left town and was struck by a car on Interstate 10 in December 2001 in Tucson, Ariz., Falvey said.
She said the victim’s friends, who’d been traveling the country with him, crisscrossing the country by taking buses and hitch-hiking, came back to Urban Peak and told the case workers.
“They always come back,” said Falvey of the wandering youth. “That’s our motto, unfortunately.”
Others, like Amber Carpenter, 17, and David Sigurbjartsson, 20, are trying to straighten out their lives in the aftermath of what they describe as youthful indiscretion.
In Carpenter’s case, she said she stole a car, then left home to avoid going to jail after police were on to her. Now she’s on probation.
She traces her problems back about three years, when her parents didn’t let her do what she wanted to do, and she concluded it was easier to take to the streets.
“I just had a bad attitude,” she said, in an interview at the soup kitchen. “But I’m trying to find a job and get it all together.”
Today, she’s back at home and she’s glad to be indoors on cold nights. She said she was naive to think she could make it on the streets.
“I used to have to walk around the city until the sun came up,” she said. “You could never really sleep when it was cold.”
Sigurbjartsson, a Florida native, came to Colorado Springs, Colorado last summer by working for a traveling carnival whose end of the line was in the Springs.
Jobless and recently released from a two-month stay in Community Corrections for violating a restraining order, he’s staying with friends, a nomadic existence that some case workers refer to as “couch to couch.”
“Everybody makes their own decisions. Everybody makes their own bed, and I made mine,” he said. “I’m the only one to blame.”
Eric Evans, a case worker for Urban Peak, said he likes to think that he’s helping the youth, many of whom make a beeline for the soup kitchen after they have been released from a variety of institutions — whether it’s foster care, group homes or substance abuse treatment facilities.
“They come to us, and we become their best friends, their parents in the interim,” Evans said. “We escort them into adulthood.”
By next spring, the new shelter will be doing just that.
A QUICK COMPARISON
Here’s how three other medium-sized cities stack up against Colorado Springs, Colorado population 361,000, in providing shelters for homeless teens:
Anaheim (330,000 pop.): No homeless shelter for youth. An estimated 28,000 homeless, but no breakdown on homeless youth.
St. Louis (350,000 pop.): An estimated 1,500 homeless teens and young adults. It has two eight-bed facilities to accommodate them.
Cincinnati (250,000 pop.): No homeless youth shelter. Has one day shelter, called Anthony House.
SOURCE: Various city and county officials
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