The intensive initial evaluation is a hallmark of Colorado Recovery’s focus on excellence of professional diagnostic and treatment services. We review complex diagnostic issues on admission and formulate new and more effective treatment directions.
Three highly skilled psychiatrists, in conjunction with our managers, direct the treatment program. They are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and participate in daily client treatment review meetings.
Our acute residential facility, Balsam House, offers hospitalization services and can accept much more acute patients than typical residential care centers, including people who are certified for involuntary treatment.
Our programs conducted in a small, domestic, open-door setting on a pleasant residential street. When ready, clients come and go from Balsam House to visit friends and relatives, coffee shops, parks, a recreation center and other Boulder sites. They cooperate in running the living environment by being involved in menu selection, shopping, cooking and other household tasks.
A seamless array of community-based services allows clients to move easily from acute care to transitional housing, intensive outpatient services and long-term outpatient treatment with a full range of vocational and psychosocial rehabilitation services. The intensive outpatient treatment provides daily care with medication administration, assistance with money management and other tasks of everyday living.
A sense of community among our clients, fostered by our community organizers, allows them to gain a sense of empowerment and social inclusion by taking central roles in the management of our client-run psychosocial clubhouse and its social activity program.
Our acute residential treatment facility offers services that are similar to those in an advanced-care, psychiatric hospital but at a fraction of the cost. Our prices are similar to those of other residential treatment centers that do not offer our intensive array of services.
Boulder, Colorado, the home of the University of Colorado and other centers of learning, is known across the nation for its beauty, healthy lifestyle and environmental advantages.
Thank you for helping my son become the new person he is today. When he first arrived at Balsam House, he resisted all the opportunities offered. He was convinced that he did not need any treatment, afraid, and withdrawn into himself. This afternoon I was delighted to find him relaxed and confident. I especially enjoyed visiting with residents out on the Balsam House patio. Over a period of time I saw them transformed from being cautious, nervous, stressed, and withdrawn to becoming friendly and interested in life again.
– Mother of a man with severe schizoaffective disorder
