Jewish Family Service of Colorado (JFS) believes in strengthening the community by providing vital services to people in need. Every day, JFS helps people overcome life's challenges to live fuller, more meaningful lives. Founded in 1872, JFS is a nonsectarian, nonprofit human services agency serving metro Denver and Boulder. JFS helps seniors maintain a high quality of life, provides quality mental health counseling to children and adults, offers training and job placement to people with significant barriers to employment, and provides food and financial aid to individuals and families in crisis. Every year, the agency benefits more than 22,000 people of all faiths, races, ages, incomes, and abilities.
Services Offered
Jewish Family Service of Denver's mental health specialists are your resource for quality therapy. Our mental health professionals assist the people of Denver at all stages of life with caring, compassionate, and confidential counseling. Our mental health counselors are masters-degreed professionals who are licensed in a variety of specialties. We want to help make the diverse community of Denver become the best place that it can be, and our mental health professionals do that through our wide variety of complete psychological services. Our mental health counselors specialize in helping our Denver clients with: * Relationship issues * Anxiety and depression * Grief * Family crisis * Parenting issues * Trauma
Fees and Payment
We offer a sliding fee schedule for our Denver clients with limited financial resources. We accept private insurance, self-pay, Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.
