Dungarvin Colorado, LLC

We would like to show appreciation to El Paso County for putting together their annual foster care, adoption, kinship appreciation event! As an agency that works very closely with DHS, we enjoyed ourselves and had a blast! Thank you for the invite and thank you for working with us! We are looking forward to next year!

A Saturday spent networking, educating, and catching up with past co-workers at the 2024 Supported Decision Making Summit. What fun!

El Paso County Foster Parent and Kinship Appreciation event

We are very happy and proud to help sponsor Special Olympics Coloradol

2024 Breakfast with Champions Special Olympics!

A bittersweet lunch today, as we say goodbye to the best darn Quality Assurance Specialist EVER! Amber will be forever missed, not only for her skills, but her teamwork, creativity, humor, and mostly her friendship 💕 Dungarvin Colorado, LLC will not be the same without you!
We wish you, Alex and Presley all the best in this next adventure, and we look forward to seeing you again soon!

Colorado Springs quarterly recognition was an amazing success! Italian theme and wonderful people! We want to congratulate those who got recognized! Thank you for all you do and being apart of our family!

Another fire week at Dungarvin Bowling League!

Cole smoked his previous high score by 29 pins. Congratulations on a hot 196!
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Perfect 300! team captain, Tyler, showed his skills off today with bowling 7 strikes in game one at his league today - breaking his previous high score of 202 with a fat 210 scratch.

Congratulations, Tyler!

Great game!!

A huge congratulations to Nora for graduating High School! Nora was adopted to a wonderful family, who had her as a foster child. We are so proud of you Nora! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🎉🎊

Happy Pride Month!!!! ❤️🧡💛💙💜🩵🩷🤎🖤

Jon, Kris, with their Provider, Roy, had a great time in Arizona visiting the Rockies Spring Training, and the sights around Scottsdale!

Share pictures of your rescue dogs in the comments!

Congratulations to Cathy for bringing in those blue ribbons last weekend at the Special Olympics meet 👏 👏 👏
We hope you’re as proud of yourself as we are of you!

Janyce is hands down one of the most amazing people Dungarvin Colorado, LLC has the privilege of contracting with for host home and respite services!
We 💚 you!!!

Today we are recognizing our Colorado DSP of the Year nominee, Janyce Dixon. Janyce is a host home provider and has been with Dungarvin for more than 10 years! She continues to warmly welcome everyone into her home, regardless of circumstance or need. Janyce brings a solutions-centered approach to her services, exhibited by an individual she's supported for the last eight years. Originally, he struggled with problem behaviors, but Janyce and he have worked together to form a bond unlike any other. Thank you for all you do, Janyce, we see and appreciate you!

Bruce and I participating at a Transitions Resource Fair in beautiful Woodland Park

💚Dungarvin Colorado, LLC Denver had a wonderful tea party to celebrate our amazing providers! We are beyond grateful for everything you do 💚

Spring is in the air, that means SLS's community garden plot in Colorado Springs is ready for prepping!

Flowers and herbs are coming back on their own, so now we w**d the boxes to make room for new plants and new growth.

Good healthy dirt with lots of happy worms 😁 🪱🌷

It’s Admins day!!!! These three women are part of Colorado Springs, they often help out the Denver office as well. Dungarvin is nothing without these three! Thank you for all you do!

Happy Earth Day!
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Dungarvin Colorado LLC is attending the PPITT Resource Fair at the 21 C Library.

Earlier today we shared the announcement that Dungarvin's Doug Simmonsen was named ANCOR American Network of Community Options and Resources National DSP of the Year. In addition to this incredible honor, we had NINE other Dungarvin staff recognized as state winners. We are so proud of each and every one of these consummate professionals and excited to share more of their stories with you over the next several months.

Congratulations to the following DSP of the Year winners:
• Shonda Amspacher, Oklahoma DSP of the Year
• Terri Baber, Indiana DSP of the Year
• Anthony Flannery, Kentucky DSP of the Year
• Emily Goldstein, Oregon DSP of the Year
• Kelley McGuire, North Carolina DSP of the Year
• Ngozi Osabu, New Jersey DSP of the Year
• Paula Peace, Nevada DSP of the Year
• Mariana Santana, Washington DSP of the Year
• Ty’Naja Williams, Connecticut DSP of the Year

https://www.ancor.org/article/doug-simmonsen-named-2024-national-direct-support-professional-of-the-year-by-leading-national-association-for-disability-service-providers/

Happy Easter from all of us at Dungarvin Colorado, LLC! May your day be filled with joy, blessings, and the warmth of springtime🌸 🐣 ☀️ 🪺 🐰 🌸

Advocacy can be intimidating, especially when it comes to advocating for child with an intellectual or developmental disability. But, THINK+change has just the podcast/vodcast episode for you!

Tune into hear from a fellow parent advocate on her strategies for tackling challenges and amplifying her voice to make change! Listen or watch today!
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We rocked our socks for National Downs Syndrome Day at the Colorado Springs Office