Our Team
Our Facility
Mission
To EMPOWER families to achieve and maintain wellness, by embracing family-focused, strengths-based, collaborative, behavioral health strategies of the highest caliber.
Vision
EMPOWER is committed to upholding the highest standards of excellence, in every aspect of operations. Its evaluations and treatment programs derive only from the most robust evidence base. All services, trainings, and consultations are provided by collaborative, multidisciplinary teams, following standardized, cutting-edge protocols. EMPOWER is staffed only by licensed, highly experienced, child and adolescent, behavioral health specialists, with outstanding skills, qualities and credentials.
EMPOWER offers a full array of multidisciplinary behavioral health services for families. The diagnostic evaluations are conducted according to evidence-based protocols, following best practice, step-wise algorithms. The treatments offered are comprised of coordinated, multidisciplinary psychotherapy and medications services that are applied in a standardized, systematic fashion, following research-derived practices. Types of psychotherapy offered include individual, group, and family therapy. EMPOWER is organized into specialty areas, with multiple provider teams focused on specific diagnostic domains, which together, cover a broad range of behavioral health concerns. The level of intensity of services and types of evaluations and treatments offered, are derived from standardized assessment and treatment pathways, customized for each child or adolescent and their family.
EMPOWER offers trainings to outside provider groups on the treatment protocols utilized at our centers, along with consultations to healthcare organizations, regarding program development and operations. The long-term goal is to develop and operate a flagship, headquarters center, which will serve as a prototype for similar centers of excellence in family behavioral health, throughout the region and beyond.
EMPOWER’s Non-Profit Services: As enabled through charitable donations and grant funding, EMPOWER is eager and prepared to offer a series of non-profit services to improve access, quality and dissemination of best practice family behavioral health services across Colorado & beyond including: 1. Provider Training Scholarships 2. Family Care Package Scholarships 3. School Consultation Packages 4. Pediatric Consultation Packages.
Values
The values upheld by EMPOWER include the following:
- Family Wellness
- Family Centered
- Strengths Based
- Empowerment
- Evidence Based
- Best Practice
- Customization
- Quality Assurance
- Comprehensive
- Multidisciplinary
- Collaborative
- Standardized
- Coordination of Care
- Continuity of Care
- Accountability
- Outcome Assessment
- Professionalism
- Integrity
- Transparency
- Early & Primary Intervention
- Prevention
- Population Health
- Dissemination
EMPOWER is a Non-Profit Organization {501 (3) (c)} that offers the highest quality, multidisciplinary, family-centered, affordable behavioral health specialty services, which are in great demand throughout Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Region and even across the nation. EMPOWER Centers are strategically localized in neighborhoods which are densely populated with families. Behavioral health therapy sessions are often scheduled between weekly and thrice weekly; hence, localizing care delivery sites to communities is essential for family convenience and accessibility.
EMPOWER’s
Treatment Philosophy
EMPOWER programs follow a population health model, with resources directed primarily at prevention, early intervention and primary intervention. In addition, EMPOWER offers trainings to outside provider groups, and organizational consultations, to further disseminate their evidence-based models throughout the region and beyond. EMPOWER emphasizes family centered care. Family involvement in assessment and treatment is considered essential to successful outcomes in behavioral health. Family interventions are key components in effective psychiatric treatment planning. Families are provided full disclosures regarding the scope of services and credentials of our clinical professionals. The routine and intensive outpatient programs are delivered by multidisciplinary teams, whose members collaborate and coordinate services.
Coordination of services and collaboration between EMPOWER clinicians and other healthcare providers, schools, communities or other agencies, is a high priority. Evidence-based, best practice protocols are followed and outcomes are routinely tracked and used to inform programs and optimize patient care. Standardized rating scales and other tools are routinely administered, for assessment and tracking of treatment progress. Please see Appendix G for a summary table describing EMPOWER’s answers to the challenges currently facing the field of pediatric mental health and Appendix I for a summary table of EMPOWER’s strategies for optimizing access and broadly disseminating programs and services.