Alumni Success Story – Ben M
Ben is one of our most prominent alumni, always available to our current clients as a sponsor, mentor, and a friend. An expert skier, mountain biker, pilot, and softball player extraordinaire, Ben lives life full on. He routinely engages in alumni activities, recreational expeditions, and is a familiar face on the Jaywalker campus. Thanks Ben […]
CMC Presentations
Janet DeMars, the Director of Jaywalker U, was busy last week supporting the local campuses of Colorado Mountain College. Last Tuesday night, October 28th, she presented the topic of addiction for the Gift of Learning Series at the Carbondale campus. Janet offered a definition of addiction, theories and models of addiction, the criteria for the […]
Congrats Mark K!
Last Friday Alumni Coordinator, Mark Kloster, celebrated 4 years of sobriety! Many people say, “So-and-so is their rock!” Well Mark Kloster is the rock to many people. Mark has always been positive and there for many of us. I met Mark two years ago and found out that he was originally a cop. I thought […]
Serenity Scramble Video
This year’s Jaywalker Serenity Scramble was the best yet! Over 100 golfers came out to support this year’s tournament and help raise a record breaking $20,000 for two local non-profit organizations; A Way out and Valley Partnership for Drug Prevention. Valley Partnership for Drug Prevention is an organization that promotes the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, […]
Strong Interest Inventory
Sometimes the Friday activity at Jaywalker U finds the students outside playing and sometimes it finds us inside learning. During the morning activity on Friday October 17th and 24th, Lisa Runck and Jen Brennan, College Counselors from the Spring Valley campus of Colorado Mountain College, joined our students. On the 17th, Jen and Lisa presented […]
Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Phil Clifton
Love never gives up,never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures in every circumstance.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 Life in Recovery presents us with many opportunities to show up and be present for those we love. Myself and Jaywalker Alumni Tom E. and Ben PG had the honor and pleasure of attending the wedding of Jaywalker […]
Jaywalker Name
We love the name of our treatment center. The term Jaywalker comes from page 37 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous; it’s a story we affectionately know as the “Jaywalker Parable.” The story is succinct and real to anyone in the recovery community: Addiction is characterized by a cunning and powerful mental obsession that […]
Boomerang Coffee Company
Boomerang Coffee Company now has its very own website! Check it out at www.BoomerangCoffeeCo.com and make sure to like us on Facebook @ Boomerang Coffee Company Facebook! Donnie Hagenbart Program Coordinator Jaywalker U
JWU- Tonight
The Jaywalker U students will be telling their stories tonight at the Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley Campus at 7pm. This week is alcohol awareness week and Subway will be catering the even. We hope to see you there! Donnie Hagenbart Program Coordinator Jaywalker U
Traffic
I’m not a fan of traffic, in fact I don’t know many people that are. I lived in Chicago for a few years and had to deal with rush hour traffic on a daily basis. Living in this valley we are blessed with not having many traffic jams and those usually come from an accident, […]
