Community Corrections Facilities

The residential phase of community corrections provides clients with the knowledge and skills necessary to be emotionally, cognitively, behaviorally, and financially prepared for reintegration. Denver Community Corrections provides comprehensive program options including core services, dual diagnosis treatment, gender specific support, intensive cognitive and behavioral residential treatment, and therapeutic communities.

Programs match client risk and need with the most appropriate treatment plans based on individual need. Clients are assisted with finding workand encouraged to participate in educational and job preparednessservices. Programstrack the payment of restitution, court fines, child support, and useful public service requirements. 

The eight guiding principles that Denver Community Corrections programs use are: 

1. Assess actuarial risk and needs 

2. Enhance intrinsic motivation 

3. Target intervention 

4. Skill train with directed practice

5. Increase positive reinforcement 

6. Engage in ongoing support in natural communities 

7. Measure relevant processes & and practices 

8. Provide measurement feedback

Residential Re-Entry Facilities 

Denver Community Corrections contracts with a combination of private and public providers to operate facilities in Denver. 

MOORE Center

Facility Phone: (720) 913-8243

Location: 570 W. 44th Ave., Denver, CO 80216

Population Type(s): Adults identifying as Male

Facility Directors: Carrie Barton and David Coleman

Zoned Bed Capacity: 90

Program Description: The MOORE Center (Men Overcoming Obstacles Reentry Center) is a collaborative program between the City and County of Denver and the Second Chance Center. The collaboration represents an innovative, research-based program model that is gender responsive and trauma informed. The programallows Denver men with criminal justice involvement to return to and thrive in their home community. Men residing at the MOORE Center are either sentenced directly to community corrections by the courts or are transitioning from the Colorado Department of Corrections.

More on the MOORE Center

Project: Elevate

Facility Phone: (720) 337-2240

Location: 4280 Kearney Street, Denver, CO 80216 

Population Types: Adults identifying as female 

Facility Director(s): Cass Harris and Alma Dicochea

Zoned Bed Capacity: 55

Program Description: Project: Elevate is a collaboration between the City and County of Denver and The Empowerment Program, Inc. The collaboration represents an innovative, research-based program model that is trauma informed and gender responsive for women with increasingly complex needs. The program allows Denver women with criminal justice involvement to return and thrive in their home community.

More on Project: Elevate

IMPACT Center

Facility Phone: (720) 913-3825

Location: 10500 Smith Rd Denver, CO 80239

Population Type(s): Adults identifying as male 

Facility Director: Maxwel Abagulum

Zoned Bed Capacity: 48

Program Description: The IMPACT (The Intentional Men Practicing Accountability, Compassion, and Trust) Center is a new vision of community corrections and re-entry in Denver that serves up to 48 men as well as a non-residential population. Community corrections is an alternative to incarceration in jail/prison for those struggling to be successful under probation supervision and a safe way for men to smoothly transition from prison to our community. The current focus of the IMPACT Center is working with men who were directly sentenced to community corrections by the Denver Courts. The IMPACT Center is a research-based program model that is centered around using a trauma-informed approach to serve men.

Independence House Inc: Pecos

Location: 4101 Pecos St., Denver, CO 80211

Population Types:  Adult male offenders transitioning from the Department of Corrections or offenders sentenced through Denver District Courts.

Facility Director: Jen Tegart 

Zoned Bed Capacity: 75

Program Description: The Pecos facility has been in operation since 1976, located in North Denver, Pecos is one of the oldest community correction programs in the state of Colorado. The program has a mixture of Diversion, Department of Corrections Inmates, including some Condition of Parole Clients. Pecos is a dormitory style setting for general population clients. It is our mission to promote the virtues of productive work, respect for others, self-discovery, responsibility and accountability. The Pecos program encourages re-connection with family and community, and the development of healthy, realistic, and productive habits of living. Independence House provides an off-site treatment program for mental health, substance abuse individual and group therapy, as well as, mental health and drug/alcohol assessment. Clinical treatment is provided by licensed and/or certified therapists. 

Independence House Pecos Grievance Procedures(PDF, 409KB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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