Author: Rhonda Van Pelt Special to The Gazette

Imagine being in such pain with your teeth that you can’t eat and even talking is difficult. That’s what happened to a young girl whose family had lost their Medicaid coverage. Fortunately, the family could turn to Peak Vista Community Health Centers, which can draw on its Compassionate Care Fund for situations like that. No…

Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care was the first hospice in Colorado Springs when community advocates Flo Carris and Susan Langstaff launched it in 1980. By 1986, PPHPC had opened the Hospice Care Residence in Colorado Springs’ Holland Park neighborhood, becoming the first free-standing hospice care residence in the state. Today, it’s the largest hospice…

The name “Safe Passage” is appropriate for an organization that helps children through the dark times, working hard to ensure they heal and thrive after being abused or traumatized. It was launched as a nonprofit in 1994, under the umbrella of the Children’s Advocacy Center for the Pikes Peak Region. The National Children’s Alliance has…

The Salvation Army is much more than the bell-ringers who are out and about during the holidays. The seeds of today’s Salvation Army were planted in 1865, when the Rev. William Booth took his mission to the London streets, preaching to and helping people in desperate need. Fast-forward 159 years, and the organization is still…