Project: Elevate

Staffing 

Project: Elevate draws on the strengths of both the City and County of Denver and the Empowerment Program to create an environment that supports the safety, health, and well being of the participants it serves.  One of it’s most unique features is the emphasis on staff who have lived experiences and identities that mirror those of the participants it serves.  Project: Elevate’s staff includes people who are multi-lingual, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who changed substance misuse, and women.

Metrics for Success

Project: Elevate proudly emphasizes the success of it's participants. Care managers work closely with participants individually to help create, work toward, and achieve goals. The definition of success includes traditional metrics such as program completion and recidivism. 

These metrics include things like achieving goals related to employment, financial independence, safe housing, supportive peer communities, establishing healthy adult relationships, re-connection with children, overcoming previous challenges with substance misuse, and overcoming challenges with mental health.

Project: Elevate is committed to using evidence based practices which draw from a broad array of academic research. Practices within the facility are frequently evaluated to assure that best practices are used to craft individual care plans and interventions. 

Community Partnerships 

Project: Elevate emphasizes the importance of community partnerships in the services it provides.  It has numerous community partners that provide services from experts within the local community.  Community partners are frequently delivering services onsite, as well as creating welcoming spaces for Project: Elevate participants in their primary service locations.

Project: Elevate seeks to give female identified participants an opportunity to achieve success.  Project: Elevate is unable to accept applicants who are a danger to themselves, or others.

Project: Elevate reviews each potential participant to assure that the programming offered presents that participant with an opportunity to be successful. 

Project: Elevate Participants begin engaging in medical, mental health, medication assisted treatment, and identity document acquisition passes very quickly without a mandatory hold period.  Leisure passes begin after three weeks in the program. 

Passes involving visitation with family and/or children are customized by a participant and their care team based on their highly individualized needs.  

Project: Elevate is a very new program, therefore data is not currently available.  Project: Elevate projects length of stay for most participants will be approximately 9 months. Project: Elevate prides itself on its individually tailored programming and recognizes that the length of stay varies for each individual participant. Participants work closely with their designated care manager to coordinate a plan that accounts for legal supervision needs and individual responsivity factors that may impact their length of stay. 

Participants who come to Project: Elevate can be sentenced directly to community corrections by the courts for a felony level conviction (Diversion), can come to the program following an experience of incarceration in the Department of Corrections and are community corrections eligible (Transition), or as a condition of their parole.  Regardless of referral source, participants must be approved by the Denver Community Corrections Board prior to being placed at Project: Elevate.