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What We Do

Bayaud Enterprises was founded in 1969 to alleviate barriers to self-sufficiency for adults living with mental health and other disabilities. Now we also serve metro Denver adults and families from other underserved populations. We believe nothing is more fundamental to economic self-sufficiency than employment. In addition to our social enterprises that create jobs and job training, Bayaud services include job readiness training, and job placement services, including paid work experience for adults experiencing homelessness, mental health and substance use counseling, resource navigation, benefits acquisition support, adult education, and access to mobile laundry and shower services as well as our food pantry to reduce food insecurity.

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PROGRAMS

Center for Opportunity, Rehabilitation, and Employment provides job readiness vocational evaluations, and job placement services. Our DayWorks program provides transitional work experience through day labor jobs for adults experiencing or at risk for homelessness, mobile laundry and shower services and access to our food pantry to reduce food insecurity.

Community Resource Navigation includes assistance with public benefits acquisition, mental health counseling, substance misuse, linkages to external community resources, and emergency/supplemental food and hygiene supplies. 

Social Enterprises creates jobs for our constituents through various ventures including contracts with federal agencies that provide integrated supported employment, document/hard drive destruction, product assembly, temporary staffing, environmental services, and unarmed security.

SUCCESS STORIES. . .

Stephanie was living in her car when she heard about Bayaud’s mobile Laundry Truck. “It was the best thing ever! I got to know folks at the laundry and get my clothes washed.” Clean laundry was just the first step in her journey with Bayaud. She enrolled in the Adams County Day Works and then started working part-time for Bayaud in the temporary shelters. Now she’s a Field Lead with the Laundry Truck. “I love being out in the field getting to know the people. I can relate to what they’re going through and I can help them. I listen to them and can even refer them to the Day Works programs.” 

A US Army veteran, David found himself unhoused and without a job. “I had some rough nights,” he said. David happened to connect with Bayaud’s DayWorks program and gained transitional work
experience at parks and farmer’s markets worksites. With the help of a Bayaud Employment Specialist and DayWorks staff, David now has a full-time job at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus and has secured housing. “I thought maybe veterans had been forgotten, but I’ve been treated so well. I feel truly blessed.”

Our services include...

CORE

Center for Opportunity, Rehabilitation, and Employment

Provides job readiness, vocational evaluations, and job placement services. Our Day Works program provides transitional work experience through day labor jobs for adults experiencing or at risk for homelessness, mobile laundry and shower services, and access to our food pantry to reduce food insecurity.

Program details

Workforce Development Center provides individualized assessments for job placement including development of compensatory skills, resume/ interview preparation, and vocational guidance for adults with disabilities or other barriers to employment to become “competitively” employable. To be eligible for this program, you must be a Colorado Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) participant. To learn how to become a Colorado Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) participant, call us at 303-830-6885 or go to Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. 

Job Placement: Employment Specialists work with participants to complete a battery of assessments to define employment goals with a laser-like focus on job placement, either within Bayaud social enterprises or with 100+ employer-partners. Employment Specialists provide one-on-one job retention support or address employer concerns for the first 90 days. Assessments of long-term job retention experience are used to evaluate program outcomes. Based on available funding, contact us to see if you are eligible. 

Contact us at 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org

Day Works: Partnerships with cities and counties to provide adults experiencing homelessness with transitional work experience with same day pay, on-the-job-training, job placement, case management, and other essential services; since 2016 in Denver, and now in Lakewood.

Contact us at 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org

Mobile Community Services: Mobile laundry and shower services alleviate barriers to job search, housing security, and school attendance for single adults and families experiencing homelessness with clean clothing and personal hygiene. SW YMCA & Community Table in Arvada, St. Francis Ctr, VA VRCC, Open Door Ministries & Crossroads Comm Ctr, Northglenn.

Contact us at 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org

Enterprising Women Giving Circle provides scholarships for women seeking to advance self-sufficiency through education, employment, or small business ownership.

Contact us 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org

Program details

Public Benefits Acquisition: Bayaud Navigators assist participants with applications for public benefits, including SSI/SSDI. We serve as the lead agency for SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery) in the Denver metro area. In 2021, 46% of SSI/SSDI applicants were approved for benefits, which exceeds the national average.

Contact us at 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org

Housing & Resource Navigation: Housing Navigators assist long-term at-risk residents living with mental, physical or intellectual disabilities remain sheltered in permanent supportive housing (since 2012). Resource Navigators link constituents to external community resources for health care, housing, and other services.

Contact us at 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org

Community Counseling Services: Licensed therapists provide short-term, mental health and substance misuse counseling and connect participants to long-term counseling services.

Walk-in consultations for adults over age 18 are at 333 West Bayaud Avenue, Denver, CO 80223 from 9 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. Telehealth options (phone or video) are available.

Call us at 303-248-7979 for more information.

Emergency/Supplemental Food and Personal Hygiene Supplies are provided weekly since 2007 now to 130 households per month, which includes approximately 200 children and adults. The Food Pantry is open Mondays and Thursdays 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Contact us at 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org

Housing and Community Counseling

includes assistance with public benefits acquisition, mental health/substance misuse counseling, linkages to external community resources, and emergency/supplemental food and hygiene supplies.

Social Enterprises

Since 1981, Bayaud has been creating jobs, providing training for future employment, and generating revenue to support programming and general operations through social enterprises.  These social enterprises create jobs for our constituents through various ventures including contracts with federal agencies that provide integrated supported employment, document/hard drive destruction, product assembly, temporary staffing, environmental services, and unarmed security. 

Program details

Bayaud Works – ventures providing essential services (established in 2020) Bayaud to provide custodial, mailroom, warehouse management, and patient transport

  • Bayaud Enterprises Staffing Team (BEST) a “try before you hire” temporary competitive staffing approach for commercial employers that reduces barriers for hiring a permanent employee that also minimizes time commitment and costs to employers in comparison to other temporary staffing companies. BEST temporary employment is a great place to start if you have barriers to employment.
  • Environmental Services include custodial and make-ready (unit-turn) services for commercial, public and non-profit customers; that has created 18 new jobs for Bayaud participants; and
  • Unarmed Security Services for private, public and non-profit customers; that has created 30 new jobs for Bayaud participants.
  • Carpet Cleaning -We provide commercial carpet cleaning services at a lower cost than most other carpet cleaning services.
  • ThermaWorks Pest Control provides eco-friendly services, on-the job training and customer education on maintaining pest-free living and work environments. Contact 720-757-6864 for info and pricing.

Product Assembly Microbusinesses provide temporary on-the-job training opportunity for people with disabilities to learn and grow work-related skills; 15 employees.

  • Business Partnerships: assemble products or special mailings on an “on-call” basis. Currently, provides pediatricians and dentists across the U.S. with 14,700 dental packets for children and adults to encourage cavity-free experience.
  • Health Impact: produced more than 17,000 dental packets and soap dispensers in 2021.

Contact 303-830-6885 or info@bayaudenterprises.org for more info.

Document & Hard Drive Destruction Services provide permanent jobs for employees living with disabilities that also generates revenue, new employment opportunities and has a positive environmental impact. Of the 18 adults employed by our Document & hard drive Destruction in 2021, 33% (6) have one or more documented disabilities.   

  • Social Enterprise Established: 2003 
  • Licenses/Certification: National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) AAA Certification in compliance with all known data protection laws.   
  • Business Partnerships: Serve more than 2300 businesses and individuals annually. We provide ongoing shredding service, one time & annual service, drop off and residential service to the greater Metro Denver community.
  • Environmental Impact:Shredded paper is recycled: 3.5 million pounds of shredded paper stayed out of landfills last year and were sent to the paper mills to be manufactured into usable products.

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AbilityOne is integrated supported employment for disabled adults who work alongside non-disabled workers to perform the same job duties. Numerous federal agencies contract with Bayaud to provide custodial, mailroom, warehouse management, and patient transport services. More than 76% of Bayaud’s 120 AbilityOne employees have one or more significant disabilities, and all have access to Bayaud services.

  • Year Established: 1996
  • Membership: Approved Nonprofit Agency with SourceAmerica
  • Business Partnerships: 14 contracts with 8 Federal agencies located across Metro Denver and in North Platte Nebraska including: VA, NIST, IRS..
  • Benefits/Opportunity: provides supported employment for 90+ individuals annually with mental or physical disabilities who are integrated with other staff into each agency’s key operations.

Social Enterprises support our mission

Social enterprises are businesses driven by a social or environmental mission that reinvest profits to fund social programs. Bayaud Enterprises operates several social enterprise ventures to bring in revenue to support our programs and services where we don’t have enough funding from donations or grants. 

Learn more about our social enterprises