Imagine! 2014 Provider Fair A Big Success

On Saturday, April 12, Imagine! hosted a Provider Fair, which proved to be an exciting opportunity for families of those served by Imagine! Family Support Services and Case Management’s Children’s Medicaid Waivers to connect with providers and to learn about services available to them.

We wish to express our gratitude to all of the following:

• Over 100 individuals who attended, comprising 51 families.
• The 26 providers that participated, including four Imagine! internal providers (see lists below).
• The following generous organizations: 

1. Both the Colorado Aging and Disability Resource Center, Adult Resources for Care and Help (ARCH) and Vitamin Cottage donated reusable grocery bags. 
2. A special raffle prize for those who signed up early was a $50 Target gift card, partially donated by Target, plus an Imagine! Klean Kanteen water bottle; a Wrightslaw book on Special Education Law. 
3. King Soopers donated some of the refreshments. 
4. Panera Bakery delivered meals for providers, staff, and volunteers at a discount. 

• The four community resource groups which participated: 

1. Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association 
2. Healthy Communities/Boulder County Housing and Human Services Department 
3. PEAK Parent Center 
4. Parent2Parent 

• Our four superb volunteers from The GAP (including Vinnie, Emily, and Zaia, pictured below surrounded by the Family Support team), who helped enormously before, during and after the Provider Fair, and Christine Kellerman, our FSSP Volunteer. 

Providers participating in the Fair included:

Behavior Services of the Rockies
Boulder Community Hospital/Mapleton Center
Boulder Parks & Recreation Department/EXPAND
Carmel Community Living Corporation
Community Advantage
Continuum Autism Spectrum Alliance
Debby Hamilton, MD Holistic Pediatric Consulting, LLC
Foundation Behavioral Services, LLC
Fox Psychotherapy Services, Inc.
Front Range Hippotherapy
Goldstar Learning Options
Ignite Adaptive Sports
Jon Garson, LCSW
KidSPOT Pediatric Therapies
Lisa Hassin, LPC
Pam Vagnieres/Nutriphysique: Nutrition and Exercise Therapy
Sample Supports
Spectra Autism Center
Stacy Goresko, PH.D.
Studio Blue: Art + Psychotherapy, LLC
Support, Inc.
Twice Exceptional Speech, Language & Educational Therapy

Participating Imagine! service providers included:

Dayspring
Imagine! Behavioral Health Services (IBHS)
Imagine! Family Recruited Employee Services
Out & About

Additionally, we appreciate all the Imagine! employees who so ably assisted us in planning and carrying out the Fair, especially staff from Family Support, Early Intervention and Case Management, without whom this event would not have been possible, let alone such a huge success!

Staffers include:

Willow Witte
Kelsey Westerveld
Meagan Rountree
Sarah Fry
Victoria Kennedy
Doris Franco (Bilingue)
Maria Klickna
Carla Rapp
Lucy Williams
Claire Findlay (Bilingue)
Judy Mier (Bilingue)
Marco Longo (Bilingue)
Virginia Martinez de Escobar (Bilingue)
Sarah Baglee
Finally, Anthony Aponte, who so ably managed setting up the conference center for this event.

Here are a few more photos from the event: