Fort Lyon 10-Year Anniversary Program

Since 2013, the Fort Lyon Supportive Residential Community has provided recovery-oriented transitional housing on an expansive campus in Bent County, Colorado by combining housing with peer support, and educational, vocational, and employment services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. When the doors opened in the fall of 2013, just 27 residents were onsite. Over the past 10 years, 2218 unique individuals have been supported in their substance use recovery journeys at Fort Lyon. The program is made possible through a statewide collaboration between Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), and Bent County.
In honor of the 10-year anniversary, a celebration was held onsite at the Fort Lyon facility in Las Animas. Over 300 individuals attended including current residents and staff, former staff, graduates of the program from throughout the state, representatives from DOLA, leadership staff from the Coalition, and other community partners including current and past Bent County
Commissioners.
The program, showcased here, features speeches from Britta Fisher, President and CEO of the Coalition, Dionne Stroter, Deputy Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), Alison George, State Director of Housing serving the Colorado Division of Housing in DOLA, Lisa Trigilio, Director of Fort Lyon, and three graduates of the program, Shalley Harrow, Kat Navarich, and Randy Stotts.