How Can You Support Community Reach Center?

Community Reach Center witnessed a significant increase in demand for mental health services in 2009. Holidays can be an extremely stressful time for those in our community who are living with mood disorders or other mental illnesses, especially with the additional stress brought on by unemployment and loss of income. 

MetroNorth News and The Denver Post both ran an appeal for gifts for Community Reach Center in December, and the generous response from the community was incredible. Throughout the month of December, the bright spirit of the holidays poured through the doors of Community Reach Center to reach those most in need of assistance. For the fourth consecutive year, the staff of Vibra Hospital in Thornton coordinated a toy drive for the Center’s Day Treatment Program, fulfilling the gift wishes of all 18 students in the Program. King Soopers located at 136^th and Colorado Boulevard once again hosted the Sharing Tree to collect gifts for the children served by the Northglenn Outpatient Services Team. Members of the Westminster Rotary Club donated $800 to sponsor the Center’s annual holiday party for adult clients, and Westminster Optimist Club donated 100 Christmas stockings. The Ladies 9-Hole Golf Association at The Ranch Country Club sponsored seven entire families and three individual clients of Community Reach Center. They and other club members donated new clothing, toys, gift cards, and more than $400 in cash. Adams Alliance for the Mentally Ill donated $300 worth of McDonald gift cards. The Adams County League of Women Voters delivered nearly 200 Christmas stockings and stuffers. Countless others delivered cash, new or gently used clothing for infants, children, teens and adults, hand-knitted caps and scarves, as well as toys, games and books that were given as holiday gifts to our clients in need.

The overwhelming support from the Adams County community has sustained Community Reach Center for more than 50 years.   Generous donations such as we witnessed this holiday season are testimony to how much this special Adams County community is willing to reach out to help their neighbors in need. On behalf of the 10,000 clients that Community Reach Center served this past year, as well as the staff and Board of Directors, we are sincerely grateful for your generosity. We wish you all good health and prosperity in 2010.

Rick Doucet

Chief Executive Officer

There are a variety of volunteer opportunities at Community Reach Center!

• Assist with large mailings of the quarterly newsletter, annual report, and event invitations. 
• Pick up donated items from donors and deliver them to clients served by Community Reach Center.
• Coordinate fundraising activities with your family, clubs, churches, friends or co-workers to benefit Community Reach Center.  For example, the employees of Vibra Hospital of Thornton are generous sponsors of the Day Treatment Program children's holiday party!

Contact Debby Holgerson regarding volunteer opportunities - (303) 853-3449 D.Holgerson@CommunityReachCenter.org 

Contact Lindy Schultz regarding fundraising activities -(303) 853-3679 L.Schultz@CommunityReachCenter.org

Your donation will either be directed to support a specific program that you have identified, or used to fund services for uninsured, indigent individuals with no means to pay for treatment themselves. All donations are tax deductible. You will receive a donation acknowledgement letter within 1 week of receipt of your gift, for your income tax files, and also be acknowledged in the Within Reach quarterly newsletter and the annual report.  Click Financial Donation for more information and links for financial giving.

Community Reach is frequently in need of the following items for our clients who are struggling financially:

• New or gently worn clothing for infants and children of all ages, including teens.
• New or gently worn clothing for men and women.
• Non-perishable food.
• Magazine subscriptions for our residential treatment houses.
• Arts and crafts supplies, such as crayons, paints, drawing paper, glue, paste, glitter, decorative stickers, feathers, beads, string, yarn.
• Plain white face masks, for the Women's Support Group Mask Project . 
• Wall or pocket calendars.
• Gift cards from grocery or discount stores
• Gift cards to music stores, restaurants, movie theaters, etc., to be used as incentive awards for young participants of the Juvenile Forensics and CASASTART programs.

You will receive a donation acknowledgement letter within 1 week of receipt of your gift, for your income tax files, and also be acknowledged in the Within Reach quarterly newsletter.

Please deliver these items to:

Lindy Schultz

Community Reach Center

11285 Highline Dr.

Northglenn, CO  80233

(303) 853-3679, L.Schultz@CommunityReachCenter.org