What’s New at NMCS!

Here’s a little something from one of our amazing Early Intervention families:

As a mom working with students with special needs in 27J, I learned about Early Intervention (EI) through Child Find, which shared our building. Seeing James struggle made me decide to start the EI process. James has made such huge improvements not only in his speech with us, but his learning and growing. He now tries new things, plays with friends, his sister, and communicates his needs clearly. He knows numbers, colors, and letters, sings songs, and shares his excitement for learning every day. He doesn’t hit or kick […]

Big congratulations go out to our very own CEO this week! Randy Brodersen was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent Alliance Summit in Breckenridge. Randy’s efforts in working with the Colorado State Legislature was highlighted. The work he has done with our state congress and representatives over many years has paved the way to waitlist reductions and numerous rate increases. These increases have allowed agencies to provide a living wage to employees and service providers and benefited people with IDD statewide.

Did you know that this year is North Metro’s 60^th Anniversary? We have put together a group to help plan a celebration for later this year, and part of that is the duo of Carrie Morris and Tracy Bauknecht, who are our history detectives!

Carrie and Tracy have set up their own office, where they have huge piles of photo albums and boxes full of newspaper clippings and memorabilia. It will be a daunting job to get through 60 years of history to find the highlights. Carrie says that in the end they will have a timeline of major events in […]

Support Services has moved to online documentation with Therap! Therap is a full-service electronic record & data-collection program, and it has taken the place of paper files in all the departments of NMCS now. That means when it’s time to enter your notes, you are going to your phone or computer instead of a piece of paper. Now that meant a great deal of training. In October and November, we worked to train over 100 Support Partners on using the new system! It was a big challenge, but our team worked hard and rose to it.  Director Robert Hunter says, […]

Welcome to 2024 and our new North Metro Website. It was time for an update, especially with the changes around Case Management and I hope you find the new design attractive and useful.

2023 was a hard year at North Metro. After talking about Conflict-Free Case Management for over two decades it finally happened and now we are no longer providing Case Management. As of November 1, the new contractor, Rocky Mountain Human Services has taken over those responsibilities for both Denver and Adams County. The actual handover of responsibilities went smoothly but Rocky Mountain is playing catch-up and is still […]