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 2007 - June 2008 Accomplishments
- Provided 7,244 nights of shelter and services to 227 youth, including 64 runaway and homeless youth.
- Made 2,763 contacts with homeless and runaway youth through street outreach in Jefferson, Adams and Boulder Counties.
- Gave 159 educational presentations about runaway issues to 3,528 students in area middle and high schools and 42 to audiences from local civic and community groups, including law enforcement. This is a total of 201 educational presentations to 4,381 persons.
- Provided educational and therapeutic services to 17 youth in the day treatment program.
- Provided parenting classes to 12 parents.
- Assisted 2,568 youth and adults via the 24-hour information/referral hotline
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