The Boulder County Crisis Counseling program (BCCC), a partnership between JFS and Community Foundation Boulder County offered mental health support after the devastating Marshall Fire. The program, which ended on December 31, 2024, provided more than 1,000 individuals affected by the fire with mental health services.

One of those families shared how the program assisted them in their recovery.

“Thank you for the kindness and support of this program. We just returned to our rebuilt home a week ago. We have spent the last 1,050 days and nights dreaming of getting home again, and the BCCC therapy grants have been a sincere keystone in our ongoing recovery. We wish we had a more robust and loud way of expressing our gratitude to the entire JCC and JFS communities, and maybe one day we will. But for now, please share our email thanks to anyone that was a part of this process.

We are extremely thankful this week for making it home and welcoming our family from all over to spend Thanksgiving together again, at our house. Most importantly, our hearts and minds are in harmony with the community’s energy and support. We feel good in our bodies, we are healing our minds, and the therapists we engaged with through the BCCC, JCC, and JFS grants have been amazing lighthouses as we traversed an open, rough, and very dark sea.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!”

—The Collins Family