Special Kids Special Families
Friday, May 18, 2012
Promoting, strengthening, & supporting individuals with disabilities and their families
Celebrating Our Diverse Community through Art Event - held May 10th, 2012 @ Cottonwood Center for the Arts
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424 W. Pikes Peak Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO  80905
(719) 447-8983
(719) 447-9482 fax
 
Linda Ellegard
Executive Director
 
Our Mission:
To promote, strengthen,
and support individuals
with disabilities and
their families
  
 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SPECIAL KIDS SPECIAL FAMILIES
Serving various counties including Denver Metro, the Front Range, and the Colorado Springs Pikes Peak Region
  
  
Special Kids Special Families (SKSF) is a Colorado non-profit 501(c)3 organization founded
in 1998 to provide community support and services to families who are raising youth with
disabilities and special needs.  Our agency noted the lack of community services to prevent
out of home placement for youth and young adults.  Respite care, specialized foster care,
adult day programs, and family preservation services have evolved from this need.
 
OUR PROGRAMS INCLUDE:
 
 
Trenton's Friends
 
ICAN/Adult Services
 
 
 
 
What Zach’s Place means to new SKSF employee: Darren Sheaffer
 
“It takes a village to raise a child”. When this was quoted by one of our
former first lady’s many cheered and many jeered. For me personally it rang
true. Families today are faced with many challenges of meeting our bills,
putting food on the table and making sure our children are safe. These are
the challenges that families have faced for generations but in many ways the
challenges have intensified. Our neighborhoods are less safe and our
neighbors are often strangers, families are more fractured and technology
had brought many advances and many dangers for our young minds. Now
more than ever families find themselves in the position of needing a little
help, someplace where their children are safe, fed and well cared for….They
need a village. For me, Zach’s Place is that Village...
 
Zach’s Place is a haven where donors, volunteers, care givers and families
come together to create a home away from home for some of the most beautiful
and gifted individuals I have ever met. If you are fortunate enough to be a part of
Zach’s Place it is virtually guaranteed that your life will be changed forever.
For me personally,Zach’s Place has meant; smiles, laughter, tears, a shifting of previously held beliefs,
friendship and personal growth." Read more about Zach's Place in their May Newsletter.
 
 
 
 
 
WHAT LEADS TO OUR SUCCESS:
 
♦ Qualified staff receive training in working with the special needs population
 
♦ Use of Family Strengths based model where parents are necessary in any planning
   & intervention
     
♦ Family to Family model, whereby family, community & culture are considered
     
♦ 24 hour on-call services with therapeutic level crisis intervention for service providers
   & families receiving services
     
♦ Specialized training to the service providers
     
♦ Regularly scheduled support group meetings for service providers
 
 
 
 
Help support our programs by attending our various fundraisers throughout the year...
                
         
                                                    
 For additional information visit our fundraising website: www.SKSFfundraisers.org