Families and Caregivers
This page will be updated regularly with mental health and community care tips, resources, and upcoming events for Arvada West and Jeffco families. Check out the links below to be connected with school and community opportunities.
Your Student's Mental Health Team at Arvada West:
School Counselors
All students at AWest are assigned a School Counselor. All School Counselors have a master's degree in School Counseling, and are trained to help students and families navigate all aspects of high school - including social emotional wellness, academic success planning, and post-secondary and career readiness. They are your first line of support!
Counselors are assigned by student last name.
Mental Health Providers
School based mental health staff provide individual, small group, and school wide social emotional support for all AWest students. Mrs Smith and Ms Evans do not provide therapy, but can help you connect with a therapist, if needed.
If you or someone you know could use someone to talk to, please reach out!
Mental Health Support in Our Community
Click the icons below to be linked directly with each organization.
I Matter
The I Matter program can connect your student with a therapist for up to 6 free virtual counseling sessions (some in-person appointments available, too) that are completely confidential. Talking with someone can help your child feel better.
Did you know? Youth 12 years old or older can consent to their own mental health care through IMatter!
Hazel Health
Hazel Health is a virtual service connecting all enrolled Jeffco students with mental and physical health providers FREE of charge!
Hazel Health provides evidence-based, culturally responsive, on-demand integrated healthcare that youth access at home with a parent or guardian. Connect with Hazel to access unlimited:
On-demand physical health support and assessment
Scheduled appointments with licensed mental health counselors
Access to follow-up and case management support for participating students, including appointment scheduling for in-person services, assistance navigating the healthcare system/Medicaid, coordination for ongoing counseling or psychiatric supports, and coordination with existing school supports.
Note: guardian consent is required to access services and insurance information may be gathered as part of ongoing health care.
Collaborative Care Clinic Flyer.pdfNew! Walk-in Collaborative Care Clinic from JCMH
Walk-in anytime to access coordinated care, all in one place!
The Clinic is always staffed by a therapist, prescriber, care coordinator, peer specialist (someone who shares lived experiences with mental illness), and a nurse to meet the needs of youth 8-22 and their families.
Now accepting Medicaid and CHP+!
To see if you qualify, call JCMH: 303-425-0300
Jefferson Center for Mental Health
JCMH programs and services foster recovery and resilience in children, adults and families struggling with a variety of needs, including mental health conditions and substance use treatment.
Affordable care and multi-lingual options available.
Rocky Mountain Relationships
Individual, family, and small group counseling is available to help youth and adults manage challenges with: family and parenting, relationships, conflict and communication, anxiety and depression, loneliness, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Check out their Art Therapy Group for Preteens!
Location:
7850 Vance Drive, Suite 185
Arvada CO 8000
Family Strong Counseling
Family Strong Counseling provides couples, individual, and family therapy, outpatient addiction recovery and group therapy. We work with children, teens and adults.
Our therapists have the specialized training necessary to help you successfully navigate the struggles and conflicts found in couples and family relationships.
We invite you to schedule an initial session or brief phone consultation with us. The best way for you to get a feel for your therapist is by meeting face to face.
Locations:
Arvada Office
12191 W 64th Ave #305
Littleton Office
8340 Sangre de Cristo Rd #212
Affordable care options available.
Benediction Counseling
Benediction is a group practice offering emotional and relationship support for teens, adults, couples and families. They offer a supportive therapeutic relationship to help you work through difficulties and avoid unnecessary suffering. Their goal is for clients to leave therapy with a great deal of pride in their ability to overcome obstacles and restore emotional and relationship health.
Accepting Medicaid, Cigna, victim's compensation, and most HSA cards.
Location:
5460 Ward Road, Suite 380
Arvada, CO 80002
Arvada Therapy Solutions
Arvada Therapy Solutions, PLLC is focused on providing a strength based and collaborative counseling approach to help you navigate through the difficult times in your life. We will work together to reach your goals of health, happiness, and wellbeing.
Arvada Therapy Solutions, PLLC offers play therapy for children ages 4-11, individual therapy for teens and adults, as well as couples and family therapy.
Accepting Victim's Compensation and Medicaid, plus a sliding scale and low fee options.
Locations:
5460 Ward Road, Suite 110
Arvada, CO 80002
10200 W 44th Suite 136 Ave Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Empowered Hearts Counseling
Empowered Hearts provides therapeutic support, insight, and expertise to empower individuals to lead their best life. This practice is able to offer a sliding scale rate based on income needs.
Accepting Kaiser and United
Location:
5335 W 48th Ave, Suite 500 Denver, CO 80212
Tribe Mind and Body
Tribe is a group practice that was formed to meet your needs. At any point in your life, having outside support can help you to change your path and feel more in control of your life. Tribe serves children, teens, and adults through individual, play, art, trauma informed, and teletherapy services. Reach out for a free 15 minute consultation to see if we are the right fit for you.
Located in Arvada and Lakewood, and accepting new clients now!
Road to Growth Counseling
Mental health practice for individuals, couples, families, children, adolescents, and small groups.
Affordable options available. Locations in Arvada and Denver.
Animal Assisted Therapy Programs of Colorado
Animal Assisted Therapy Programs of Colorado is one of the first counseling centers in the nation that specifically integrates teams of professional therapists and their therapy animals to facilitate the counseling process. The ranch is home to 14 therapists who practice Animal Assisted Therapy, and 30 rescued animals who live on our property and are also involved in sessions, including: goats, donkeys, horses, alpacas, rabbits, rats, cats, and certified therapy dogs. Individual (all ages), family, small group, and medication support are available.
Affordable options available. Accepting insurance and medicaid.
Currently operating on a waitlist. Expanded telehealth and individual appointments may be available.
Location:
Barking C.A.A.T. Ranch
7275 Kipling Street
Arvada, CO 80005
AVOS Counseling
Our goal at AVOS counseling is to provide down to earth, honest, integrative, compassionate, educational and at times, humorous therapy to get you out of pain and back to your inner badass self. After all, therapy is hard work, but we at AVOS believe the process should be fun too. Although we recognize the difficulty of healing from past hurts and current transitions, our clinicians are inspired by the empowering process of people make healthy changes in their lives and we are honored and humbled to be a part of your journey.
Insurance plans not accepted at this time.
Location:
8795 Ralston Rd.
Suite 200A
Arvada, CO 80002
Second Wind Fund
An innovative program that matches Colorado children and youth, ages 19 and younger, who are at risk for suicide and do not have the means or adequate insurance for necessary mental health treatment, with licensed therapists.
Judi's House
Care center offering support for kids, families, and communities navigating grief and loss.
Individual and group services are available for youth and adults. Spanish language options available.
Servicios De La Raza
The Behavioral Health Program is a specialized clinic providing culturally and linguistically responsive English and Spanish outpatient mental health and substance use services to underserved and uninsured populations. Our goal is to support a thriving community in which all members have the opportunities and support to achieve self-sufficiency and lead a healthy quality of life.
Drug Intervention Services
Check out the DIS Newsletter for more information about drug intervention supports available to you and your family at school.
The Center on Colfax
The Center provides a variety of different resources and programs in line with their mission "to engage, empower, enrich, and advance the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer community of Colorado".
Asian Pacific Development Center
APDC’s Behavioral Health Clinic provides a variety of services to clients who represent a wide range of mental health issues from brief, transitory conditions to the more acute and chronic psychiatric symptoms and disorders. Services are tailored to address the needs of immigrant and refugee status clients. Our current enrolled clients are primarily, but not limited to, Asian persons from Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. As a specialty clinic, APDC has behavioral health care services that are typically provided in the clients’ native language with bilingual staff who share the same cultural background as that of the client.
For assistance, please call (720) 839-0162 or email ClinicReferrals@APDC.org
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning youth.
The Trevor Support Center is also a helpful resource for families of LGBTQ youth.
Let's Talk CO
Their goal is to initiate more inclusive conversations about mental health and seeking treatment. Their website includes COVID-19 specific information about coping skills and normal feelings during this time. They also break down what mental health is and different mental health conditions in order to de-stigmatize mental illness.
More Resources!
1/27/21 RP Family Event.mp4Recorded Webinar:
Restorative Parenting Practices
Restorative practices focus on having positive relationships. When we make a mistake, they ask us to take responsibility for our behavior and make amends. At the heart of restorative practices is the belief that we are all in this together. This webinar is for any family members who would like to learn more about using Restorative Practices at home.
Click play above, or follow this link to open the recording in a new window.
Also check out this "RP at Home" resource!
Recorded Seminar
Smart But Scattered: Helping Children and Teens Strengthen Executive Skills
Dr Peg Dawson helps families understand how to improve your student's ability to plan, start, and organize tasks, and maintain attention and motivation.
Click here to view the recorded seminar!
Adult-Handbook-2019.pdfRobbie's Hope Adult Handbook
A free resource guide for talking with teens about suicide loss - written by teens and surviving family members.
It's okay to ask for help.
Making ends meet can be hard and everyone could use some help from time to time. You or your family may not have needed support before but times have changed. If you need help with child or elder adult care, access to health care, housing advise or assistance, food, finding a job, or other support, and are not sure where to turn, Jeffco community partners can help. Click on the banner to visit Jeffco's CommUnity Resource Page. Haga clic aquí para obtener los recursos comunitarios en español de la comunidad de Jeffco.
Looking for a phone or text option? Mile High United Way 2-1-1 Colorado is a confidential and multilingual service connecting people to vital resources across the state. You can call, text, live chat, or search the 2-1-1 database to get help. Call 2-1-1 to reach Mile High United Way's Help Center, or text your zip code to 898-211 (message and data rates apply).
Centralized Housing Helpline
Call Colorado Housing Connects at 1-844-926-6623 to be connected to local housing resources.
Jeffco Action Center
The Jeffco Action Center is the largest Jeffco Community hub and offers five-day food supplies, clothing, household items, mail services, rent assistance, utility assistance, and connections to community outreach partners. Food services are available for drive-thru and walk-up service. Appointments required. (720) 215-4850.
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