Colorado has a great system to support kids and families experiencing trauma, child abuse or neglect. But there are still gaps, and all of us need to work together in a fundamentally different way to fill them.
Stand in the GapWe are building a community of game changers who, working together, will fundamentally change the child welfare system and how kids navigate through it. Our common goal is to unleash the potential and talent of kids who have been abandoned by society and left behind.
1,004,002 total hours of care that we provided in 2016
96%of our kids stayed in their homes
98%of our kids stayed in their school
Program Overview
Day Treatment
On-site K-12 Educational Services where children receive an exceptional education and the needed mental health support to effectively reintegrate back into schools and communities.
Community-Based Services
Innovative services focused on keeping children in loving homes. Creating environments where children can be safe and thrive in-home, school and community.
Residential Treatment
Residential care for more than 35 kids, in five cottages where kids are learning and developing skills to be safe in homes, schools and the community.
Blog
Reflections on our work, our philosophy, and the children who bless our lives. Our blog is written by various guest writers, which can be anyone from a teacher to our CEO to a parent. We don't have all the answers—but together, we can make progress.
- HB18 - 1003: The Opioid Prevention Program to Improve Young Lives
- Rewiring Child Welfare
- With Everyone...Forever
- Police Contacts in Denver and Boulder Counties: Celebrating 62%
- "Rewiring Child Welfare in Colorado" fr. Chronicle of Social Change
- From the CO Sun: Let’s help struggling families before bad situations spiral into abuse and neglect
- Opinion: Make a difference in the life of a child in need. Become a special advocate (CO Sun)
- Turning the child welfare system upside down in Colorado isn’t easy, or cheap (CO Sun)
Giving Hope
Not every story is a happy one, but every story at Tennyson Center has one common element—hope. We can’t change the past, but as a community, we can help these children to have the mental tools they’ll need to go forward with their lives. To overcome, to achieve, to thrive.
Stories
How You Can Help
Since 1904 we've been helping the community. We've been lucky in that we've always had support.
None of us can do this alone. We need your help.
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