Facility profile Colorado
Forest Heights Lodge
Forest Heights Lodge is a program in Evergreen, Colorado. It has operated since 1954.
About Forest Heights Lodge
It celebrated its 50th anniversary.source The average academic class size of six students.source The building permit issued for construction of new multipurpose gym and classroom building.source It completed new multipurpose building: classrooms, group room, weight room, gymnasium.source It cost $103,205 per child per year.source
Licensing: JCAHO Accredited.source Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; licensed by Colorado Department of Human Services; academics approved by Colorado Department of Education; California Certified Non-Public School.source
Survivor testimony
What people who lived or worked here say happened. Survivors' own words are published with their permission; forum accounts are what was posted publicly and are reported as claims, not findings.
Reported on survivor forums
Business filings
The company registered with the state behind this program, as the state's business register lists it.
Forest Heights Lodge Inc.
Colorado nonprofit corporation, document 19871129507, good standing (last annual report 2026). Colorado's record of it
- Principal address
- 13922 Denver West Pkwy Ste 150, Lakewood, CO, 80401
- Registered agent
- Forest Heights Lodge Inc.
Filings since it was formed
- May 11, 1955: Articles of Incorporation, as Pikeview House
- June 30, 1955: Entity Name Change, as Forest Heights Lodge
- May 15, 1995: Amendment
- October 13, 1995: Amendment
- May 10, 2001: Amendment
- August 31, 2020: Amend and Restate Articles of Incorporation for a Nonprofit Corporation
Staff
Administration
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Linda Clefisch
Executive Director (2006-2010)source
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Russell H. Colburn
Executive Director (2013)source
Notable staff
Rules and practices
Practices
- Restraint
- Seclusion or isolation
- Level system
- Strip searches
- Forced medication
- Confrontation groups
- Limits on contact with family
Documents
Woodbury Reports Mentions (8)
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Woodbury Reports, December 2008 (#172), P. 21: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page -
Woodbury Reports, January 2006 (#137), P. 29: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page -
Woodbury Reports, January 2014, P. 11: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page -
Woodbury Reports, March 2007 (#151), P. 3: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page -
Woodbury Reports, March 2008 (#163), P. 30: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page -
Woodbury Reports, October 2006 (#146), P. 1: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page -
Woodbury Reports, September 2010, P. 1: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page -
Woodbury Reports, September 2010, Pp. 9-12: Forest Heights Lodge Woodbury Reports page
From the Unsilenced archive
10 documents about Forest Heights Lodge that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Forest Heights Lodge.
- 1973_10_19___CCYC_slates_workshop_November_10.pdf
- 1973_11_13___Touch_therapy_helps_severely_disturbed_according_to_head_of_treatment_center.pdf
- 1977_09_07___Foster_parents_state_convention_set.pdf
- 1977_09_18___Foster_homes_are_more_than_a_halfway_house.pdf
- 1979_10_01___Discipline_control_subject_of_workshop.pdf
- 1980_10_13___Problems__stress_of_blended_families_focus_of_workshop.pdf
- 1984_03_22___Collbran_the_place_for_Kids_for_Christ_Ranch_.pdf
- 1989_05_04___Surviving_Parenthood_class_offered_May_11_in_WHS_auditorium.pdf
- Additional Links for Forest Heights Lodge.xlsx
- directions.pdf
From SCIAD NET
1 document about Forest Heights Lodge that Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. SCIAD NET keeps it on Google Drive, where it opens.
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