Empowering Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Our mission is to provide enrichment and educational opportunities to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, so they are empowered to live abundant lives in a God-centered environment.
02/28/2026
Thank you to our Leadership classes for planning such a joyful, spirit-filled week. Thanks also to everyone who wore their spirit on their sleeve. We had so much fun!🎉
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02/23/2026
Congratulations, Michelle! 🎉
Thank you for showing warmth, kindness, and for persevering when things feel difficult. You are an important part of what makes Wellspring Community so special. ✨
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02/22/2026
It's Spirit Week! 🎉
Our Leadership classes have planned a fun-filled week of themed days starting tomorrow, and we can’t wait to show off our spirit!
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02/21/2026
Thank You Colorado Crochet Critters for sharing handmade “Happy Hearts” with our community. We love them! Every stitch carried intention, care, and kindness. 💛
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02/21/2026
Love has been at the heart of Wellspring Community since the very beginning. Today, love shows up in shared laughs, high fives, dance parties, and everyday acts of encouragement. 💛
Learn more about how we're a community built on love in this month's newsletter!
This month’s feature includes Everyday Moments & Big Impact, a note from Nicole, a Community Member Spotlight, a Valentine Wish from Wellspring Online, a Partner Highlight with Colorado Crochet Critters, and upcoming events and important dates.
Thank you for showing kindness to others through your actions, being willing to try new things, and bringing light to all that you do. You are an important part of what makes Wellspring Community so special. ✨
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02/15/2026
Join us on an upcoming tour learn about the heart of our mission and connect with our community. Tours are hosted on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Use the link below to sign up.
The next tour:
📆: February 19th
🕘: 9:15 am
📍: 826 Park St.
Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Wellspring Community ❤️
Love shows up at Wellspring in shared laughter, everyday kindness, thoughtful gestures, and support to grow with confidence. We’re grateful for a community where everyone belongs and is celebrated.
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02/14/2026
Happy Work Anniversary! 🎉
Thank you for your hard work, heart, and commitment to Wellspring. You make our team and community sparkle! ✨
Bri (Bakery Manager - 9 years)
Virginia (Art Studio Manager - 2 years)
Cara (Barista - 2 years)
May (Barista - 2 years)
Amy (Resource Coordinator - 1 year)
Josh (Sub Driver - 1 year)
Tanya (Shift Supervisor at Collective - 1 year)
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Castle Rock Collective
02/13/2026
We ❤ Pepper's Senior Dog Sanctuary , where our Canine Care Crew builds connections and has a taill-wagging good time.
Peppers provides a compassionate, loving, lifelong home where elderly dogs are cared for during their good days, bad days, and last days. Community partnerships like this create opportunities for growth and connection.
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02/12/2026
Happy Work Opportunity Wednesday ✨
From measuring and mixing (like these soon-to-be blondies!) to packaging and customer service, members of the bakery cooperative do it all. In the bakery skills grow and confidence rises. Learn more or place an order by visiting the link below.
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Wellspring Community is a non-profit organization providing educational, enrichment and business enterprise opportunities to adults with special needs such that they are empowered to live full, productive and satisfying lives in a God-centered and spiritually nourishing environment. We strive to continue to be innovators in the field, having conceived, designed and executed a unique delivery model of services to the adult special needs community. We refer to those we serve as STARS – Specially Talented Adults Raising Standards.
We have begun to fulfill our Mission by (1) offering to our STARS a broad and empowering series of classroom- and community-based learning opportunities and (2) establishing specially modified business enterprises where our STARS are engaged in meaningful, creative and productive business enterprise experiences. At Wellspring Bakery and Wellspring Café, staff and volunteers work alongside our STARS, training them in baking, hosting and serving. Staff and volunteers likewise train our STARS to create beautiful ceramic and woodcrafts in our Wellspring Art Studio and to plant, cultivate and harvest living things in our Wellspring Garden program. Our innovative Programming offers to our STARS classroom- and community-based learning opportunities in Physical Education, Art and Performing Arts, Life and Leadership Skills, and Enrichment Education.
Our Vision - is to dramatically scale our footprint and our offerings so as to empower and spiritually nourish as many STARS as we possibly can, consistent with our program excellence and God-centered and spiritually nourishing culture, without compromising the program or culture of legacy Wellspring.
In the near-term, we plan to launch new satellite locations across the Front Range. We also plan to investigate whether and how we can best serve a broader range of STARS than has historically been the case. Longer term, we may expand our footprint beyond Colorado. Also longer term, we plan to explore offering our innovative programming virtually across the State (for those who cannot travel to our brick & mortar locations), across the nation, and perhaps even across the globe. Always, we will continue to try to innovate our Programming to best serve the needs of our STARS.
While not presently part of our core strategy, in the future, we hope to be able to begin to participate in solving the residential housing crisis that afflicts many of our STARS and their families.
Bakery - Our Wellspring Bakery was our first specially modified business venture. What started out as baking cookies in a home kitchen, then baking a couple of hours a day in rented space, has now evolved to our own commercial kitchen. Experienced staff and volunteers train our STARS in all aspects of baking and packaging. To place an order call 303-660-1935 or email us at bakery@wearewellspring.org
Art Studio - Our Wellspring Art Studio offers our STARS the opportunity to learn woodworking and ceramics, alongside trained staff and volunteers, and to experience the thrill of creating beautiful decorative pieces.
Enrichment Classes – We offer an incredible variety of approximately 50 different, continually evolving enrichment classes in performing arts, physical education, life/ leadership skills and leisure skills.
For more information about please visit our website at ww.wearewellspring.org