The Shavilk Nonprofit of the Year 2023!
Estes Valley Crisis Advocates is a non-profit agency committed to providing advocacy, crisis counseling, information, referrals, and safe housing services to survivors of crime and trauma. All services are free and confidential. We provide 24/7, 365 days a year crisis intervention and advocacy.
In the Estes Valley, survivors of crime and trauma receive the immediate and continuing assistance they desperately need. Our entire community is healthier because we are all working together to assist the vulnerable in their time of great need. Our goal for all residents and visitors of the Estes Valley who become survivors of crime and trauma, is to thrive once again and be able to put the pain of the victimization behind them."
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"Estes Valley Crisis Advocates is a solid and thriving non-profit organization. The organization has an exceptional and seasoned leader in its Executive Director and she has hired and oversees a professional and dedicated staff. Both the paid staff and the volunteer advocates have been incredibly responsive to the community's needs over the course of the last few years. In addition to responding to domestic violence calls and unexpected deaths, they have also actively assisted the victims of wildfires and floods. The support provided by the advocates during these community-wide emergencies has been invaluable to those impacted.
The primary challenge currently facing our organization is decreased grant funding. This is due to the fact that several grantors are simply decreasing the amount of funding available to organizations. The Director is addressing this challenge by finding additional and sometimes new grant funding sources. Additionally, in the last year we have seen our individual and business donations grow, and sustaining and increasing these donations is a current goal of the organization. We would like to see a larger percentage of our funding come directly from donors- like you!- so that our dependency on grantors can decrease. Towards that end, we appreciate our connection with Colorado Gives and we thank you for your interest and support.
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"Everyone here made me feel safe and cared about. The weekly meetings helped me so much with dealing personally with the DV issues and also empowered me at the same time with the wonderful resources EVCA provided me with"
Estes Valley Crisis Advocates (Formally Estes Valley Victim Advocates)
EVCA is committed to providing advocacy services to survivors of crime and trauma including safe housing for domestic violence survivors, crisis counseling, referrals, and community education.
Estes Valley Crisis Advocates has been supporting the community of Estes Park and the surrounding Estes Valley area since 1988. In 1988, the Victim Assistance Program was created as a volunteer component of the Estes Park Police Department. There was no actual director or coordinator. In 1989, in response to the growing need in the area of domestic violence, volunteers sought and obtained cooperation and assistance from a Loveland, Colorado non-profit agency, Alternatives for Battered Women, Inc. Volunteer advocates were recruited, interviewed and trained and a group of eight advocates began working in March 1989 under the aegis of Alternatives for Battered Women. A year later this group of advocates was strong enough to stand alone and parted company from the Loveland agency, by then renamed, Alternatives to Violence. A volunteer director coordinated the program from her home. In 1994, the Town of Estes Park provided $5,000, office space, phones, advocate pagers and all materials needed to run an office. The program director sought grant money for her salary. The Victim Assistance program operated under the direction of the Estes Park Police Department, headed by a program director until 1997 when the program became incorporated. The Victim Assistance program became Estes Valley Victim Advocates, Inc., serving the entire Estes Valley including Glen Haven, Allenspark, Drake and all areas in between. In February 2007, Estes Valley Victim Advocates began offering safehousing for victims of domestic violence. Over $500,000 was raised through a capital campaign to purchase the safehouse building.
In 2015, we changed our name to Estes Valley Crisis Advocates in order to show respect to the people we serve. We recognize that anyone can find themselves in the midst of a crisis, and defining them as victims undermines their personal resiliency. Today, an Executive Director works with 6 full-time staff to provide the agency's services which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. EVCA serves not only the 5,862 year round residents of Estes Park but also the surrounding unincorporated rural area of over 11,000 residents, including; Pinewood Springs, Glen Haven, Drake, Allenspark and the surrounding Larimer County area. Advocates are also on-call to serve the approximately 4.5 million annual visitors to Estes Park. All services at Estes Valley Crisis Advocates are essential to victim's physical, financial and emotional safety, as well as being 100% free and confidential.
The Estes Valley Crisis Advocate volunteer program consists of 5-7 volunteer victim advocates and 9 active volunteer board members.
Organization name
Estes Valley Crisis Advocates
other names
EVCA, Estes Valley Victim Advocates
1997
Tax id (EIN)
84-1445811
Category
Human Services
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
P.O. Box 3822Larimer County, CO, US