Bayaud Enterprises

Bayaud aims to expand social enterprise ventures and self-sufficiency programming to increase integrated supported employment, job services, mental health counseling, mobile laundry and shower services, public benefits acquisition, and other basic human services for at least 3,000 individuals and families a year.

Bayaud is working to improve internal operations to support the growing needs of Bayaud constituents with strong leadership, improved technology and communication support, workspace, and proven strategies for sustainability. In 2021, we plan to launch a capital campaign to secure the funding needed to expand our facility with additional space for space for programming including our social enterprise ventures.
Bayaud is also working to inspire a culture of excellence that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion with opportunities for professional growth and benefits.

For more than 50 years, Bayaud has been recognized as an innovator in reducing hurdles for individuals to engage in the workforce and achieve self-reliance. We believe that nothing is more fundamental to economic self-sufficiency than employment. Our programs and social enterprises advance self-sufficiency with supported employment, job services, and comprehensive services that support job retention for single adults, and older adults who are challenged with disabilities, homelessness, past incarceration, and/or poverty.
Our partnerships with local agencies along with support from foundations, businesses and individual donors ensures the needs of our constituents are fully addressed.

With our Day Works program, Bayaud partners with the City and County of Denver and Adams County to provide day labor, on-the-job training, job placement services, and other essential services to adults experiencing homelessness.

Bayaud currently has two mobile laundry trucks and in 2019 launched a mobile Shower Truck to support individuals and families challenged with homelessness by alleviating barriers to job search and housing security.

Bayaud’s Career Center prepares participants with the tools and skills they need for successful job search with vocational assessments, training on resume writing and interviewing, internet-based job search, and computer skills training.

Bayaud navigators provide life skills training support and connect participants to community resources for housing, health care, and other vital services. Emergency/Supplemental Food and Personal Hygiene Supplies are provided to 90-100 households a month with approximately 325 children and adults.

In early 2020, Bayaud launched Bayaud Works, a new program/department to increase social enterprise ventures that create jobs and future job training while also generating unrestricted revenue to support programming and general operations.