Care Manager for the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) ProgramPosition: Care Manager for the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program at Empowerment
Job Description: Care Manager will provide trauma-informed, individualized, intensive supportive services to help ensure individuals being diverted from the criminal legal system are connected to needed behavioral health treatment, resources and supportive services. The Care Manager will work with other Empowerment staff, the Denver Police Department, and other community partners to empower individuals to break the cycles of incarceration, homelessness and instability. LEAD Care Manager is responsible for:
Send resume to julie-kiehl@empowermentprogram.org |
RELAPSE PREVENTION |
Relapse Prevention is drug/alcohol treatment group that focuses on building cognitive and behavioral skills to help support sober living and provide support in recovery.
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JOIN OUR TEAM!
HIV Prevention Outreach SpecialistJob Description: This position is responsible for providing HIV testing, outreach and prevention services to persons who are living with HIV and persons at increased risk for HIV who are HIV-negative or whose HIV status is unknown.
Qualifications: Required:
HIV Prevention Outreach Specialist Responsibilities include:
Send resume to meredith-morrison@empowermentprogram.org |
9 indoor cycling bikes, 2 classes & 9 spots to dance your heart out!
$100 a bike & $100 to dance
Not able to make it to ride or dance in person? We've got your covered!
REGISTER to RIDE ON YOUR OWN & we'll send you our Spotify playlist!
FESTIVAL for LIFE and EMPOWERMENT
For over 30 years, thousands of people from across Colorado have joined together as a community to raise money for organizations that provide critical services to people living with or at risk of acquiring HIV. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this is the first year Festival for Life will go virtual.
The Empowerment Program is a Partner Agency for the Festival For Life AIDS Walk Colorado. 60% of funds raised for the Empowerment Program team will come back to Empowerment for services for women living with HIV. We depend on these funds to provide needed and unfunded items such as: hygiene items, feminine hygiene items, emergency copay assistance for medications, cold weather gear such as hats/gloves, socks & underwear, and other urgent needs of participants. GOAL: $1,000
Join our virtual team! Donate! Share!
Click on the 'Join Team' if interested! |
SEX ED TRIVIA!Event Registration
Entry Fee: $20 Sponsor another person to play and/or Donate additional money! Locally Sourced PRIZES! Supporting our local artists and small business owners Date to be announced SOON! |
Join us Thursday, September 24, 2020 from 11am-1pmCalling ALL Staff & ALL Participants for FREE LUNCH (first 50 people) and a PHOTO SHOOT on THURSDAY, September 24TH from 11A-1PM at Empowerment’s parking lot.
Check out Peggy’s website One Million Faces – link is below! You can write your own inspiring message on a white board for your photo!! Each person’s photo will take no more than 10 minutes, we hope EVERYONE can join us!!! Just show up and be ready to inspire with your beautiful smile and message!! www.onemillionfaces.org See you Thursday at Empowerment in the parking lot anytime 11am – 1pm!!! |
Peer Support Specialist - Housing Opportunities for People Living with HIV/AIDS (HOPWA)Job Description: The HOPWA Housing Peer Support Specialist works directly with women living with HIV who are either homeless or housed to maintain and/or acquire housing. The Peer Support Specialist would be available to assist in any life skills support services and education that will benefit women to live well independently and with their families, to access needed supports to maintain housing, and to help women access all needed eligibility requirements to access housing throughout the community. The Peer Support Specialist will work with current medical care managers, Empowerment housing staff, community landlords and resources/supports to ensure participant needs are being met.
Qualifications:
Full Job Description Send resume to brandi-haberl@empowermentprogram.org |
MONDAY MOTIVATION Cancelled for September
HOST: Meghan Behring |
Start the week off by joining with community. We will gather together to set and share our weekly intentions.
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HOW ARE WE DOING? |
First time on Zoom?
Join us to check-in, test out Zoom, work out the kinks, and talk about things we are working on! |
Sex Ed Trivia!Register Today!
Entry Fee: $20 Sponsor another person to play and/or Donate additional money! August 6, 2020 6:30-8:30pm Register - Sex Ed Trivia! |
Locally Sourced PRIZES!
Supporting our local artists and small business owners You will receive an e-mail with the Zoom link. |
The Empowerment Program is a Partner Agency for the Festival For Life AIDS Walk Colorado. 60% of funds raised for the Empowerment Program team will come back to Empowerment for services for women living with HIV. We depend on these funds to provide needed and unfunded items such as: hygiene items, feminine hygiene items, emergency copay assistance for medications, cold weather gear such as hats/gloves, socks & underwear, and other urgent needs of participants.
Do you have any questions about sex and sexuality? Ask them anonymously here:
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Q: Who should REGISTER for Sex Ed Trivia?
ANSWERS:
A. EVERYONE who thinks they may have played it a long time ago!
B. EVERYONE who thinks they probably wouldn't want to play with their grandparents...but, maybe!
C. EVERYONE who thinks it's funny or awkward to talk about sex, sexuality, gender, and new ideas!
D. EVERYONE who thinks it's AWESOME and FUN to talk about sex, sexuality, gender, and new ideas!
E. EVERYONE who thinks they know everything about sex ed!
F. EVERYONE who thinks they know nothing about sex ed!
G. EVERYONE who … is YOU!
A. EVERYONE who thinks they may have played it a long time ago!
B. EVERYONE who thinks they probably wouldn't want to play with their grandparents...but, maybe!
C. EVERYONE who thinks it's funny or awkward to talk about sex, sexuality, gender, and new ideas!
D. EVERYONE who thinks it's AWESOME and FUN to talk about sex, sexuality, gender, and new ideas!
E. EVERYONE who thinks they know everything about sex ed!
F. EVERYONE who thinks they know nothing about sex ed!
G. EVERYONE who … is YOU!
Q: What IS Sex Ed Trivia?
ANSWER: Exactly what you think it is!
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*If Intensive Outpatient or Outpatient Treatment is NOT needed, we will refer you to a Peer Navigator to make a plan.
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*If yReceive a day planner, $10 gift card, & welcome kit to help prepare for your wellness journey!
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BEYOND TRAUMA |
Beyond Trauma is a group for women who are ready to examine the reach and impact of trauma on women’s lives, helping to integrate traumatic experiences through understanding, mindfulness, and connection.
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MOTHERHOOD
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Motherhood provides a safe environment where parents can openly discuss their successes and challenges of parenting and the difficult relationships we often have with our own mothers.
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FINDING THE CORE BELIEFLet Love Be Your Beam
LAST CLASS on June 26! FRIDAYS 2 – 3pm HOST: Amber B. Shells Meeting ID: 817 1373 6748 |
Join us to explore why we make the decisions that we make and how we see our own personal truth. Find the root belief versus our emotional beliefs. We will be exploring how beliefs and emotions can limit us. Please bring paper and a pencil to the group.
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SINCE 1986
We’ve worked to decrease the number of women living in poverty who have significant barriers to self-sufficiency due to involvement in the criminal justice system, substance abuse, and violence.
We’ve worked to decrease the number of women living in poverty who have significant barriers to self-sufficiency due to involvement in the criminal justice system, substance abuse, and violence.