Youth and Family Resources

in the Tri-Lakes Region

RAD

RAD events are put on by students, for students, and are a way for high school students to have fun on Friday nights. By offering an alternative to parties, RAD keeps students safe while still providing them with the social events they enjoy.

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Middle School Initiative

Middle School Initiative is a program that provides a free YMCA membership to middle schoolers at specific schools across the region. The goal of this program is to inspire youth to discover their passions, develop a healthy lifestyle, and gain the assets needed to avoid risky behaviors in order to succeed in school and life.

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Ryan Pappas Memorial Foundation

1. To help provide Safe and Sober alternate activities (as opposed to parties) for High School students. 2. To provide meaningful, impactful, and truthful Drug and Alcohol Education Programs 3. To provide scholarships for D38 High School Seniors who positively impact their peers and community, as well as youth sport scholarship opportunities for developmental programs.

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Lewis-Palmer School District 38

Mission: Lewis-Palmer School District is a partnership of parents, the community, and educators that aspires to prepare our students to be successful learners, productive citizens, and caring contributors to society. LPSD seeks to develop each student's talents in a safe, nurturing environment and to inspire a life-long love of learning.

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Safe to Tell

Safe2Tell provides a safe, easy way to anonymously report information about anything that is a concern to school or community safety (abuse, bullying, threats of violence, drugs, weapons, suicide threats, etc).

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Path to Empathy

Our path is to empower a generation to experience and mobilize empathy to people all around them. By teaching the skill of walking in another's shoes, we can change the atmosphere of our homes, schools, and community.

Please email [email protected]

Sources of Strength

Our mission is to provide the highest quality evidence-based prevention for suicide, violence, bullying and substance abuse by training, supporting, and empowering both peer leaders and caring adults to impact their world through the power of connection, hope, help and strength.

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Value Up

True change comes when a cultural shift takes place. From the lunch lady to the superintendent, and from the head cheerleader to the new student, everyone has to see the value of valuing everyone.

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Young Life

We believe in the power of presence. Kids’ lives are dramatically impacted when caring adults come alongside them, sharing God’s love with them. Because their leader believes in them, they begin to see that their lives have great worth, meaning and purpose.

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FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes)

Unite your two passions, faith and athletics, to impact the world for Jesus Christ. The mission is to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church.

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Project Reasons

Project Reasons is a 501(c)(3) small group effort that is dedicated to saving the lives of students, and adults, from suicide. We focus primarily on teaching students how to cope with suicidal feelings as well as how to help their friends. We also encourage dialogue between adults and students and encourage people to courageously talk about mental health. Project Reasons believes in order to successfully make a change, it is necessary to unify adults and students in the prevention effort. In order to accomplish this, we use our own personal stories. Project Reasons is run by the Student Board, which spans across multiple districts. Our students set out to speak to both students and adults on the difficult and often painful topic of suicide.

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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

We educate. Offered in thousands of communities across the United States through NAMI State Organizations and NAMI Affiliates, our education programs ensure hundreds of thousands of families, individuals and educators get the support and information they need.

We advocate. NAMI shapes national public policy for people with mental illness and their families and provides volunteer leaders with the tools, resources and skills necessary to save mental health in all states.

We listen. Our toll-free NAMI HelpLine allows us to respond personally to hundreds of thousands of requests each year, providing free information and support—a much-needed lifeline for many.

We lead. Public awareness events and activities, including Mental Illness Awareness Week and NAMIWalks, successfully fight stigma and encourage understanding. NAMI works with reporters on a daily basis to make sure our country understands how important mental health is.

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Monument Police Department

The Monument Police Department is dedicated to maintaining the high quality of life our community enjoys and ensuring that our Town is a safe place to live, work, and visit.

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Tri-Lakes Cares

Tri-Lakes Cares is a community based, volunteer supported resource center whose purpose is to improve people’s lives through emergency, self-sufficiency and relief programs.

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Children's Hospital Colorado

Mission: To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

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Hike for Life

Mission: Hike for Life exists to nurture our community spirit and to inspire others to appreciate and care for our great outdoors.

www.hikeforlife.co

U.S. Taekwondo Center

The focus of our martial arts schools in Colorado Springs and Monument is on physical fitness, character development and self defense, rather than fighting. Our overarching goal is in building our student’s self-esteem.

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