Community Care & Reentry

The Boulder County Pipeline

The ground-level program in Boulder County is a structured transition pipeline serving people coming out of incarceration and people living without shelter. This program grows directly out of relationships built inside the system, serving as a direct continuation of the Reimagine program founded by Dante Lamar Owens, known as Rip, at Sterling Correctional Facility. The people running this program have slept outside, done the time, and navigated every system they are now teaching others to navigate. That is the mechanism by which trust gets built fast enough to actually help someone in crisis.

Stage 1: Housing

Immediate sober living placement in Boulder County. Stable housing is not a reward at the end of a program; it is the absolute prerequisite for everything else.

Stage 2: Benefits Navigation

Working directly with social workers to connect participants to food stamps, A&D Colorado services, and mental health appointments. We utilize warm handoffs rather than simply handing out phone numbers.

Stage 3: Voucher Coordination

Connecting participants to specialists in Section 8 and housing voucher applications, actively tracking the paperwork so nothing falls through the cracks.

Stage 4: Life Skills Instruction

Direct instruction delivered by a Colorado state-certified Advanced Peer Recovery Specialist. This covers business formation, credit and debt management, banking, loans, mortgages, car ownership, apartment renting, home ownership, bill payment, government ID acquisition, public transit, legal compliance tracking, GED preparation, and digital literacy.

Stage 5: Identity Transformation

Participants who stabilize are offered the path to become certified peer support specialists themselves through Colorado's Medicaid-funded certification system, cycling back into the program as the people running it.