CareNet Family Program Partners, friends, and family members of sexual offenders face many challenges. To help these individuals cope with trauma resulting from the sexual offense, CareNet offers support groups for ALL adult family members and close friends, whether or not the offender is a client at CareNet. Whatever your relationship is with the offender, you are welcome to participate in CareNet’s monthly family support groups. Our goals are to address the vicarious and second-hand traumas that families and friends endure when a loved one commits a sexual offense, while also providing the family with information and education regarding the Standards of the Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) and the treatment of sexual compulsivity/offending. If an offender has children, he is often removed from the home. This creates many new barriers for the family and is often a heavy strain on everyone involved. CareNet’s Family Program provides structured and individualized Psychosexual Education classes, including three individual sessions and three sessions with the offender. This prepares participants to become “Approved Supervisors.” With an Approved Supervisor in attendance, the offender is able to participate in more community activities and, if appropriate, may be permitted to have some contact with his own children.

Family Support Groups meet in three locations on various days of the week: In the Denver office on the third Friday of the month at 5 p.m. •

7100 E Hampden Ave., Suite B, Denver, CO 80224

In the Broomfield office on the first (spouses and girlfriends) and third (all family/friends) Wednesdays of the month at 5 p.m. •

11811 Upham St., Unit A, Broomfield, CO 80020

In the Mead office on the fourth Friday of the month at 6 p.m. •

3997 S. Valley Drive, Suite 104, Mead, CO 80542

If you wish to explore participation in the Family Program, please contact Alan Marschke at 303-370-2273, ext. 26, or by email at [email protected].