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Mountain Resource Center
Sharon Schrage
P.O. Box 425
Conifer, CO 80433

Phone: 303-838-7552
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• Support Services
• Youth Services
• Community Services

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About Us

“Neighbors helping neighbors build a viable, healthy community” is the vision that inspired a group of local citizens to respond to a critical lack of health and human services in the mountain areas west of Denver in 1992. Geographic isolation, hidden poverty, and the inability to find help normally available in more urban areas created pressures on families that resulted in a significant prevalence of family crises, domestic violence, early childhood developmental and educational problems, isolated teens, and community fragmentation. Recognizing that area residents needed access to health and human service programs locally, a coalition of concerned citizens researched and identified the specific and unique needs of people living in the rural mountains of west Jefferson and east Park counties.
Once service priorities were defined and funded, the Mountain Resource Center (originally known as the Mountain Family Project) was created to provide assistance to people in need. As the population increased to its current 65,000, Mountain Resource Center’s programs adjusted and expanded to serve an even greater number of neighbors. A successful capital campaign gave the community a new building to utilize in 2004.

Mountain Resource Center is a community-based nonprofit organization and a member of the Colorado Family Resource Center Association. Through a dedicated, highly qualified staff and over 400 volunteers, the Center is able to provide unduplicated, essential health and human services to more than a dozen communities in a 1,000 square mile service area. Working in partnership with local businesses, private and public agencies, churches and individual volunteers, the Center is a single point of entry for a broad range of services which include: family crisis assistance, health care and health education, domestic violence intervention, early childhood education, life skills classes, youth services and community disaster relief.

Approximately 3,894 unduplicated individuals were served in 2008. Community members donated over $100,000 in goods and services last year, plus 440 volunteers gave over 10,474 hours of service to help their neighbors build healthier, safer, more self-reliant families and communities.

The Mountain Resource Center is a community-based non-profit organization that promotes community involvement and responsibility to foster the optimal welfare of children, youth, adults, and communities in a 1000 square mile rural mountain area serving a population of over 65,000.