El Centro de las Familias Open HouseEl Centro de las Familias is a multi-cultural outpatient clinic that specializes in providing services to Spanish speaking and bilingual children, adolescents, and adults. Individual, group, and family services are focused on recovery and integrating understanding, respect, and the strengths of the Latino/Hispanic culture into the treatment process. Please come to the community open house at El Centro on Friday, May 29th, from 3 – 7 pm for a tour of the center with information about what El Centro provides, a raffle with prizes, and light refreshments.
The new mural, which was painted by art students mentored by nationally acclaimed artist, Carlos Fresquez, depicts families streaming through a door surrounded by images like the rising sun to symbolize the hopeful beginning of a new day. The mural has made the clinic more visible to the community while helping beautify the area, according to MHCD/El Centro Program Manager, Russ Urrutia. It has also significantly reduced costly graffiti tagging incidents. The addition of the mural was part of El Centro’s overall building improvements for the year and coincided with an increase in services provided to benefit the community. These new services included:
In 2008, El Centro significantly increased the number of consumers served by expanding the studet placement training program which increased the center’s capacity to serve children and families while also increasing El Centro’s contribution in training much-needed bilingual mental health professionals. |
Where there once was a drab, concrete wall blemished with graffiti, there is now a colorful mural symbolizing hope, recovery, and resiliency. MHCD’s El Centro de las Familias, located in southwest Denver, now welcomes the community with vibrant images and new signage that help identify the center as a place for people to come for help with mental health needs.