Profile: Children's Ark

Childrens ARK, Inc. was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in August 1994 and licensed as a Residential Child Care Facility by the State of Colorado in September 1994. Childrens ARK’s co-founders, Jean Ann and Eric West, utilizing the proceeds from the sale of their home, opened the doors to the first Childrens ARK facility in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.

From this first small step, Childrens ARK has expanded to 3 licensed Residential Treatment Centers serving 87 children who present issues which place them outside of parental, educational and community control. The average stay is 9 months.

Unconditional love, coupled with accountability of behavior and natural consequences, form the philosophical foundation of our program. Children are provided solid psychological, intellectual, emotional, and social decision making tools as part of their treatment

Since 1994 more than 800 children have resided at Childrens ARK facilities. These adolescents, males and females ages 10-18, have come to us from 34 of the 64 Colorado counties, as well as from the Ute Mountain and Ute Indian tribes. Children are typically placed at a Childrens ARK facility by County Departments of Human Services.