BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY
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Mission Statement
Making Futures Bright: changing lives affected by domestic violence and sexual abuse.
About This Cause
Bright Future Foundation was founded in 1984 as a grassroots volunteer organization called the "Women's Resource Center." Initially, the agency solely provided crisis services for victims, utilizing volunteers' homes as shelter. Due to the overwhelming need for domestic violence and sexual assault response, the organization grew steadily over the next three decades. In 2002, Freedom Ranch Safehouse was established as the first and only emergency shelter in the county and following in 2005, Bright Future Foundation partnered with the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless to establish the Rapid ReHousing Program. In 2008, the Women's Resource Center was renamed the Bright Future Foundation and the agency transformed into a survivor-centered advocacy agency with professional services offered in-house. Bright Future Foundation launched Ensuring Freedom Housing Program in June 2017 to address the significant barrier to safe, stable housing for survivors of violence. Finally, this past August, Bright Future Foundation began the final phase of one our largest initiatives to date. Bright Future Foundation broke ground on the BrightHouse, our new emergency housing facility. The BrightHouse opened in June and offers emergency housing as well as access to all of our wraparound services. Today, Bright Future Foundation assists 1,010 survivors of violence each year with crisis intervention, advocacy, and long-term healing services. In addition, we provide over 20,000 nights of safe housing through BrightHouse, Ensuring Freedom Program, and Rapid ReHousing Program. Our work has emerged as a statewide best practice model for domestic violence and sexual assault response for our approach of providing prevention, crisis intervention, and long-term healing services within one organization. Our Newest Programs: Sexual Assault Nurse Examination and Forensic Nurse Examinations [SANE/FNE] The goal of Colorado Mountain Medical’s Victim First Care program is to provide Sexual Assault Nurse Examination and Forensic Nurse Examinations (SANE/FNE) for prompt medical care and emotional support to assault victims – right here in Eagle County, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. SANE/FNE examiners are specially trained, registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Partnering with Bright Future Foundation, CMM’s Victim First Care program provides expert medical and forensic care, as well as access to confidential advocacy services and no-cost behavioral health services for anyone who has experienced sexual assault or interpersonal violence. Transportation options are available. The Sacred Cycle Moving from the Roaring Fork Valley to the Eagle River Valley, The Sacred Cycle will continue to offer affordable counseling services for survivors of sexual trauma through mountain biking.