The Mothership
Photo: Matthew Staver Photography
an innovative Campus that transforms lives.
Urban Peak has redeveloped an aging and overcrowded shelter into a vibrant, thriving campus to address the complex needs of youth experiencing homelessness. The new building replaced our current shelter to offer integrated services and progressively independent levels of housing for youth.
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What we affectionately call The Mothership provides Urban Peak with the capacity and space to meet the needs of our community's most at-risk and deserving population.
The revolutionary program supports youth getting off the streets and out of a system that is designed to support chronically homeless adults. Our new campus addresses glaring gaps in currently available services where youth can find safety, learn, grow and prepare themselves for the transition from homelessness to self-determined, fulfilled lives.
For the first time, Urban Peak can provide transitional space for youth between the stabilization of a shelter bed and long-term, independent housing that can be unaffordable or plagued by long waiting lists.
The Mothership is designed to address youths' emerging needs as they move from finding stability, building independent living skills and breaking out of the system of subsidized housing.
Urban Peak partnered with Shopworks Architecture, a local firm with expertise around affordable housing and trauma-informed design, as well as the University of Denver, to better understand how a new campus could meet the needs of youth and staff. Based on feedback from current youth and staff, the Shelter incorporates space where youth feel valued, nurtured, housed, and supported so that they can break the cycle of homelessness.
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