Family Tree Gemini
1629 Simms Street
Lakewood, CO 80215
Phone: 303-235-0630
Managing Director: Dennis Desparrois
Gemini is an adolescent center providing, in a structured environment, emergency shelter, counseling, education, 24-hour referral line, aftercare and street outreach to homeless and runaway youth. Youth, ages 11 to 17 who cannot live at home because of unsafe situations, can stay at Gemini for up to 90 days.
Gemini's goal is to keep youth safe and reunite them with their families when possible, or to help them find other living arrangements. Services include:
- Crisis shelter and care
- 24-hour crisis hotline
- Street outreach to offer services to runaway youth in Boulder County
- State-certified school
- Individual and group counseling
- Aftercare services
- State-approved day treatment program
- Parenting Classes: Parent Survival or How to Talk to Teens ... So They Hear You
July 2006 - June 2007 Accomplishments
- Provided 7,369 nights of shelter and services to 217 youth, including 81 runaway and homeless youth.
- Made 2,893 contacts with homeless and runaway youth through street outreach in Jefferson, Adams and Boulder Counties.
- Gave 128 educational presentations about runaway issues to 2,769 students in area middle and high schools and 58 to audiences from local civic and community groups, including law enforcement. This is a total of 186 educational presentations to 3,472 persons.
- Provided educational and therapeutic services to 8 youth in the day treatment program.
- Provided parenting classes to 16 parents.
- Assisted 2,569 youth and adults via the 24-hour information/referral hotline
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