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Community & Families Serving Our Community & Bringing Our Familes Together SERTOMA (Service to Mankind), assists more than 50 million people with speech, hearing and language disorders as well as providing support for you and local community needs. Monument Hill SERTOMA and Gleneagle SERTOMA are both active clubs within the Tri-Lakes region.
Monument Hill Sertoma hosts the annual 4th of July Parade in Monument drawing over 17,000 spectators. Other activities include sponsoring the International Hearing Dog International event that trains and places hearing dogs, fundraising activities, golf and youth programs.
Tri-Lakes Health Advocacy Partnership (HAP) is a non-profit community organization dedicated to identifying community health issues and creating the necessary support resources. HAP hosts annual community health fairs and education forums as well as providing community outreach programs for area hospitals. In direct response to community surveys, HAP also offers programs for seniors including transportation services and a foot care clinic, respite care, a support group for Macular Degeneration as well as family support programs. For more information, call 719-481-4864.
The YMCA Family Center is scheduled to be completed by spring 2008. This12-acre site will offer a family center complete with a community room, gymnasium, wellness center, exercise facilities, a swimming pool with lap lanes and racquetball courts along with programs and day camps for youth and families. For updates on the building campaign, visit trilakes.ppymca.org.
Tri Lakes Cares provides community support with programs that provide emergency food assistance, medical services, child-care, senior programs, job training and more. Filling in the financial gap for those in need for over 20 years, Tri-Lakes Cares offers unique in-kind and financial assistant programs that include GED classes, a jobs network, holiday baskets and budget counseling. For more information, call 719-481-4864 or email trilakescares@questoffice.net
Churches & Synagogues Keeping the faith
The Tri-Lakes area has a diverse religious climate to accommodate its many residents. With houses of worship representing nearly all denominations, the community is committed to not only fostering religious faith, but community charity and interfaith dialog as well.
First Presbyterian Church Fox Meadow Church Journey Chapel Mountain Community Mennonite Church New Life Church St. Peter Catholic Church Tri-Lakes Chapel Tri-Lakes United Methodist Church Trinity Lutheran Church The Church at Woodmoor
Health Care Expert care close to home
With two-world class medical facilities nearby, Tri-Lakes residents are assured a wide choice of excellent healthcare services with a close distance.
Memorial Hospital, a community-owned hospital, has been serving the community since 1904, and in that time has grown with the community and kept at the forefront of technology. The hospital offers classes, events, and health screenings. It features outpatient services for disease management, radiology, and surgery and inpatient service for cancer care, orthopedics, and rehabilitation, in addition to being the only hospital in southern Colorado that qualifies as a children’s hospital. Over the past two years, Memorial Hospital has initiated five major expansion projects. Memorial Hospital North, upon completion in 2007, will offer an 84-bed facility with a full range of diagnostic and treatment services. For more information, call 719-444-CARE.
Penrose Community Hospital is part of Centura Health, a non-profit, faith-based health system. As part of the largest healthcare system in Colorado, Penrose has a wide range of clinical specialties, including cancer care, neuroscience, cardiology, and many more. Penrose Community provides quality, compassionate care to Colorado citizens, and strives to nurture the health of the entire community. For more information, call 719-776-5000.
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