Sage Community Partnership

"At Sage Community Partnership our mission is to define and respond to the most pressing unmet or under served needs of Boulder County’s at-risk children, adolescents and young adults. Our goal is to creatively, efficiently, and effectively, address these needs through the creation of collaborative community partnership programming."

Leadership Awards

Community Leadership Awards:
Boulder County is privileged to have an extraordinary community of dedicated and passionate professionals, who work hard to create opportunities and support for at-risk children, youth and young adults. We at Sage Community Partnership are committed to recognizing these fine professionals, the vital work that they do, and the many lives that they touch.

Every Fall, Sage Community Partnership facilitates an annual Community Recognition Luncheon, for which Sage CP looks to the community to determine the recipients of the Community Policy Leadership Award, the Direct Service Provider Award and the Youth Achievement Award (see youth grants).

Recipients of the Community Policy Leadership Award:

Representative Tom Plant: 2004
As a member of the Colorado General Assembly, Representative Plant worked with the Joint Budget Committee to preserve Senate Bill 94 and Child Welfare funding so that Boulder County youth service programs could continue to provide support and opportunity for our at-risk families and children.

Josie Heath: 2005
Through the creation and growth of the Community Foundation, Josie Heath’s leadership has had a direct impact on the ability of many Boulder County youth service programs to continue to provide high quality services.

Roxanne Bailin: 2006
As Chief Judge of the 20th Judicial District, Roxanne Bailin dedicates herself to the research and implementation of the most innovative, collaborative and effective client-centered programming for Boulder County’s at-risk youth.

Kit Thompson: 2007
Kit Thompson’s outstanding stewardship of the innovative IMPACT Collaboration has enabled agencies, teams and practitioners county wide to maximize available resources and provide best practice services for thousands of our Boulder County clients.

Recipients of the Direct Service Provider Award:
The Direct Service Provider Award recognizes a Boulder County professional who consistently models extraordinary passion, the spirit of team collaboration and exceptional individual professionalism, in the direct service of our Boulder County at-risk youth and families.

2005 - Jessica Fry: Adolescent Caseworker with BCDSS.

2006 - Matt Banner: IMPACT Clinician serving the Platte Valley Detention Center.

2007 - Suzy Kennedy: Adolescent Intake with BCDSS.

Honorary Team Recognition:

Juvenile Probation Team: 2006
Their outstanding devotion to our county’s at-risk youth through the development of the Youth Opportunities Unlimited Program.

Justice High School: 2007
A highly successful, cutting edge, outcomes based, college prep academic alternative for some of the most academically at-risk teens of Boulder County.

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