I have the greatest privilege of serving our STARS and our wonderful program team. I support our teachers by ensuring they have the tools needed to continually provide the gold standard of programming that Wellspring offers. I experience the greatest joy, when each day I witness the warmth, creativity, and innovation that our teachers foster … Read more Page to Stage Does it Again!
Wellspring is a nonprofit organization that relies on charitable contributions to achieve our mission. We are grateful for our champions who donate and sacrifice to help us empower the lives of adults with special needs. We want to say thank you to those of you who sponsored and attended our 11th Annual Evening of Inspiration. … Read more Evening of Inspiration and Colorado Gives Day!
Resource 101 is all about how to use the wonderful resources in our community. In October, STARS in Resource 101 went to Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock. They learned about the power of the library card. Did you know you can check out a microscope; a draft detector to identify the drafts in your house and … Read more Let’s Go To The Library!
STARS at Wellspring’s Colorado Springs campus are expressing themselves creatively through painting, coloring and crafting during Art Therapy class. This class offers STARS the opportunity to explore and obtain new art skills in a fun environment. After a demonstration of the projects, STARS collect needed items and make their way back to their seats and … Read more Creative Juices Are Flowing!
Wellspring’s Colorado Springs campus recently started their new Fall trimester and one of the new classes that our STARS are enjoying is Chapter Chat. The STARS had the opportunity to vote for the book they wanted to read, and the book that was unanimously chosen was Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz. The best-selling 2017 novel is … Read more Chapter Chat Dives Into Descendants
As the Club 21 manager, I get the blessing of enjoying our STARS on fun Friday nights. Nights where their only concerns are how to have fun with friends, win a game, or create a craft. Nights where they sing karaoke on a stage or dance the night away. Our Club 21 theme nights are … Read more Club 21 – Disney Night!
One of the things that attracted me to Wellspring was the sense of community. We all have that internal need to feel connected and have a sense of belonging. We talk about this in Giving Back Class. Each Tuesday and Thursday mornings, two different groups of STARS meet to discuss who we will recognize. We … Read more Giving Back Gives Back
Since the beginning of the trimester, the Page to Stage class has been hard at work taking words off the page with an effort to put them on the stage. This class is a study of many disciplines and so much fun!!! It is quite common for theatre goers to have no idea how much hard work, … Read more From Page to Stage!
You’ve heard it said, “Life happens while you’re making other plans”; well, we’ve had a lot of “life” happening at Wellspring these last few months. If you have not already heard, we wanted to make you aware of some changes to our specially modified enterprises. And, if you have heard, we wished to try to … Read more Cafe News
On the very first day, the class was asked to come up with qualities that represent heroes. “Courageous,” “loyal,” “patient,” “caring,” “strong,” the list went on and on. Why might we be talking about characteristics of heroes? Because the class is called “Community Heroes” and it was important that we defined what a hero is … Read more Community Heroes!
