Special Kids Special Families

Special Kids Special Families vision is to give people in need the resources, compassion and freedom to achieve the life that everyone deserves. Through our programming we offer center based and community based programs that cater to the lifestyles of every individual helping them meet their goals.

Our strategies are to provide various programs for our clients and families and find out the best way to meet their needs in order to achieve maximum community integration and independence throughout their life. By offering these various center based and community based programs, and using mentorship, flexibility, and understanding of family and home care provider concerns, we can incorporate the individual’s goals, interests, and skills to promote individuals to live full independent and productive lives.

By hiring skilled staff and mentors who work with our clients, some on an individual basis, we can meet the needs to the families and caregivers who need support and respite. They feel reassured that they can leave their loved one with a staff member to be cared for in an environment that promotes learning and skill building. We also have full time nursing staff at all of our program locations to meet the fragile needs of our clients.

In our Host Home Residential program, we have experienced continued growth of the numbers of clients we serve which has allowed us to expand our staff to continue to offer our providers and clients a strong level of support services. We offer 24 hour crisis intervention trainings, respite services, representative payee services, and oversight of the progression of clients life goals and objectives. This program has grown from 34 to 38 homes in 2016.

SKSF Foster Care placement program has grown significantly moving to a new facility, hiring more staff to cover more families in need. We contract with AspenPointe Behavioral Health to provide planned and crisis respite for families they serve.

The Adult Day Services program continues to engage in the community by expanding their volunteer opportunities to more organizations like helping during lunch time at the Classical Academy School, upkeep of Nancy Lewis Park, hanging clothes at the Rescue Mission. We are now servicing more clients due to our Transportation services expanding to more areas in the CO Springs region. Picking up clients with our new accessible busses allows us to serve more individuals in need & offering them this free service is included.

In the last few years, we have grown our founding program, Zach's Place from a small 1500 sq ft facility to a larger facility (over 5000 sq ft) to provide more care to families needing respite. We've expanded our program to include smaller toddlers and accept ages as low as age 2 1/2 now. We've added an Assistant Director position to expand program curriculum and activities. We offer fun nights and socialization nights for kids and a Sibshops program for siblings of children with disabilities and special needs. We've also introduced a puppet disability awareness program into area elementary schools. Using these puppets are a great way to teach little ones of the need for inclusion and anti-bullying techniques.