The Don’t Look Back Center (DLBC) was founded in 2018 as a center to keep women and transwomen with substance use disorders, Trauma, and PTSD out of the criminal justice system. DLBC provides substance use disorder treatment and prevention services and trauma services including: a relapse prevention group, DUI/DWAI Classes, competency restoration education, transitional sober living home, and H.E.R. culturally competent group counseling. They also provide care management and supportive housing to adult females and transwomen.
Women, transgender individuals, and their children who seek assistance from The Gathering Place have access to a wide range of programs and services. These include: Day shelter services that meet basic needs, connect clients to resources, crisis and wellness services, and provide peer to peer engagement. Additional services include: showers, laundry, nap rooms, meals, food/clothing bank, harm reduction (Narcan + training & test strips), Art studio, peer specialist, mental health services, and housing case management.
The Initiative provides comprehensive, creative, and collaborative services to survivors of DV/IPV, Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Stalking, and Caregiver/Elder Abuse with a Physical, Cognitive, Sensory, Health-related, Emotional, or Developmental Disability. Our programs are rooted in an accessible, culturally-responsive, and trauma-informed (ACRTI) approach to address survivors’ complex goals and objectives through services in four categories: safety, self-sufficiency, criminal justice support, and recovery and healing. Advocates at The Initiative respect each client’s right to self-determination and provide appropriate and necessary services to best meet each unique individual’s safety needs.
Services include: 24-hour Crisis/Assistance Hotline, emergency shelter, protective orders, divorce and custody paperwork, court and Sexual Assault Nurse’s Exam (SANE) accompaniment, resource referrals and advocacy, housing assistance, transportation, translation services, gas, supplies and relocation services, and emergency financial assistance. Additionally, Tu Casa coordinates with the San Luis Valley Child Advocacy Center’s services, including: forensic interviewing, family advocacy, and referrals. Our advocates provide these services from various different locations throughout the community. When a client from one of the 6 counties we serve is unable to travel to our offices, our staff travels to them in order to meet their needs. Tu Casa is located in Alamosa, but advocates can travel to Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, and Saguache to provide services.
Urban Peak works with youth aged 15 through 24 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness through a variety of programs including a shelter (ages 15-20), a day time resource center, education, employment services, and access to housing resources.
We provide intensive case management and mental health services in a “one-stop shop” environment in a confidential location that is safe, quiet and trauma informed. As part of our services we maintain a small resource bank and offer survivor support and mental health groups, as well as some on-site employment opportunities. We work closely with other trusted service providers in order to achieve a wrap around services option for those who desire such services. We have received multi-year funding to develop a peer support program. We believe in voluntad: the human ability and right to choose with freedom and dignity. We believe that while we can share resources and information, each survivor is the expert of their own life and deserves the chance to exercise and develop agency, self determination and a vision for the future. We seek to empower this in every survivor.
The Volunteers of America Southwest Safehouse serves adult and children survivors of domestic violence or other violence crimes of any gender. The Southwest Safehouse provides a safe refuge for those who have no safe home, and provides the tools and support needed to recover from trauma and start a new life.
SERVICES PROVIDED: 24-hour telephone crisis intervention, 24/7/365 residential domestic violence shelter services with 24-hour intake, Provision of all basic needs: nutritious meals, shower and laundry facilities, clothing closet and personal hygiene supplies, Extensive resource referral and task-oriented counseling, Specialized children’s services, Life skills training, Employment services and Educational modules on parenting.