Third Way Center

AN ALTERNATIVE TO HOMELESSNESS & INCARCERATION

RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT, EDUCATION & ASSESSMENT FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES

Intensive treatment for troubled teens
& families since 1970

PO Box 61385
Denver, Colorado 80206
Phone: (303) 780-9191
Fax: (303) 780-9192
info@thirdwaycenter.org

Residential Programs

Third Way Center operates five residential child care facilities. We serve approximately 80 youth, co-ed, ages 14 -20.

We have Denver's only licensed residential treatment center for teen mothers and a National HUD Model treatment program for emancipating teens.
We graduate more than 60 youth per year from our accredited, alternative high school and many of our teens go onto college.
The Lowry Campus provides a more restrictive environment and intensive diagnostic and assessment focused treatment for clients not yet ready for a community based program.
Pontiac and York St. Facilities are community based, residential treatment centers housing 16 residents each.
The Teen Mother program is also a community based, residential treatment program, which houses up to 12 teen moms with their babies.
The Lincoln Ave. program is an independent living apartment building housing 22 residents and up to four infants who transition from our other programs and from our teen mother program.
The Next Steps program provides a step-down, scattered site apartment program with wrap-around services to facilitate successful emancipation.

All programs are licensed as TRCCFs and have multidisciplinary team members who are present 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our residents take ownership of their houses and are taught to care for themselves in every area: personal hygiene; household maintenance and cleaning; laundry and ironing; grocery shopping; menu planning and cooking. Third Way hires no janitors, maids or cooks. Our clients also learn budgeting, money management and banking. The Center helps residents seek and retain employment, and each teen must deposit 80 percent of his or her earned income into a joint-signature savings account to be used for independent living expenses.

• Pontiac • York • Teen Moms • Lincoln • Next Steps • Lowry Facility •