DISCOVERY HOME

INSPIRE HOME

Discovery Home and Inspire Home promote a family environment while cultivating independent living skills in preparation for early adulthood. Most of the adolescents/young adults in these programs have no viable options for family, while others have identified emancipation as providing a more realistic opportunity to achieving success.

Discovery Home and Inspire Home residents receive support and training in education, employment, life skills, home management, character-building and individualized and group mental health counseling. With encouragement and supervision from the group home parent and ancillary staff, the youth form a household and share responsibilities as they would in a family.

Each home enables them to move toward accepting responsibilities of adulthood – attending and succeeding in school, finding employment, volunteering, enrolling in college or post-secondary training and ultimately becoming self-sufficient. Some clients receive therapeutic support from Denver Children’s Home clinicians including experiential therapies like are and music as well as group therapy, mentoring and coaching while others receive services from community mental health, vocational, and/or rehabilitation service providers. While some clients attend Denver Children’s Home onsite therapeutic school, Bansbach Academy, other attend public or charter schools. All participants work on a personal roadmap for success that encourages them to take the steps they need to succeed personally and in the future. 

“One of the things I like best about living at Discovery Home is that I get the chance to work and volunteer. It feels good to earn money and to give back to others.”

— Trina, Resident