Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid is a public education program that helps participants learn about mental illness in the hopes of de-stigmatizing mental illness, and learn what various mental disorders look like.  Some of the disorders that will be discussed include depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders.  Participants who take this 8-hour class will learn the […]

Collegiate Recovery

As more and more Collegiate Recovery Programs are sprouting up across the nation, it makes sense that a magazine which promotes and supports this valuable and necessary programming would also sprout.  Trent Boozer, the founder of Recovery Campus, launched a trial issue in the spring of 2013, and just recently published Issue One/2013.  Not only […]

Lower tuition costs

Colorado Mountain College(CMC) has entered into an agreement with the Western Interstate Commission to provide qualifying out-of-state residents with lower tuition costs. Students from Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and the U.S. Pacific territories are eligible for up to a 52% discount on […]

What is Masculinity?

Dave Landers from St. Michael’s University in Vermont and Steve Rissman from Metro State in Denver helped Jaywalkers understand how masculinity is socially constructed and they discussed the myriad ways it can impede, facilitate or destroy a man’s recovery.  On Tuesday, July 30, the men from the Lodge, Solutions, and Jaywalker U worked together in […]

12 Step Colorado Treatment

Jaywalker Lodge has specialized in extended care residential treatment for men since 2005.  Our approach is 12 Step based, and Step One focused.  We approach recovery as an opportunity rather than a consequence of one’s addiction.  Jaywalker Lodge’s residential treatment program builds a foundation that integrates recovery, recreation, counseling, and community in a residential treatment setting […]