Caprock is a highly specialized treatment and supervision program serving individuals with developmental disabilities who have extensive behavioral challenges. Caprock has been offering these services in Grand Junction since 1993. The agency is designed to support and educate consumers utilizing an individualistic approach in developing appropriate relationships and maintaining social boundaries in a community-based setting.

This book is a reference guide to be used by the Caprock Consumers, Staff and Host Home Providers.  It is intended to make it clear and easy for you to understand how the program works.

Caprock is a long-term behavior and treatment program for people who have demonstrated extensive behavioral challenges. They are people who have taken advantage of others.  The length of time you spend in the program depends on your willingness to change inappropriate behaviors and progress in consumer specific treatment.  The Caprock program is designed to encourage you to change your behavior and thinking patterns.

You will change the way you communicate with others.  You will be shown how to control inappropriate thoughts and behaviors.  You will participate in treatment and education programs designed to help you gain control over your behaviors and thinking patterns. The goal is for you to learn how to live in the community without hurting others and to develop appropriate relationships with others.

Caprock provides residential and host home habilitation services for persons with developmental disabilities who have extensive behavioral challenges. This agency is designed to support and educate consumers utilizing an individualistic approach in developing appropriate relationships and maintaining social boundaries in a community based setting.

The Residential Program consists of a three bedroom Personal Care Alternatives (PCA) where supervision is provided twenty four hours a day. PCA is a residential service provided in a non-group home setting for one to three people with developmental disabilities that live together.  The term relates only to the number of people living together and not to the level of need or services provided. If you work hard and show consistent progress, you may have the opportunity to progress into a Host Home setting.

In the Host Home Model, a provider agency has been allowed to subcontract with a host family to provide residential services. The host home provider is an individual who is not a family member who provides residential supports in his/her home to persons receiving comprehensive services.  The Host Home program is a highly structured community based program that allows you to progress to a less restrictive environment.  You must choose to be in a Host Home and must continue to be under the jurisdiction of the court. Caprock believes that the program can help you progress in the level system, while ensuring public safety.

Caprock uses a level system to determine progression in the program.  This structure gradually lessens to the point where you have the option to progress to a Host Home, and then graduation.  While you are participating in the Caprock program you will attend group therapy, and education group once per week.  Individual therapy is provided as needed.  You will continue to be monitored by polygraph testing to ensure community safety.   You will receive on going training on how to stop and control inappropriate behaviors and thinking patterns.

All Caprock full-time staff, Host Home Providers, and therapists meet as needed to share information and coordinate treatment strategies.  This allows your supervisors to exchange information and maintain positive progress in the residential program and in the Host Home.   You will have a case manager from Mesa Developmental Services, with whom Caprock meets on a monthly basis.  Caprock organizes meetings with collateral agencies and staff in order to immerse the consumer in a therapeutic milieu. 

Caprock is a non-profit corporation that provides residential, treatment, and habilitation services for persons with developmental disabilities who have been convicted of or admit to criminal behavior or have been imposed to Caprock. The program is a highly structured community based alternative rehabilitation facility. It features treatment for behavioral disorders and criminal thinking, daily living skills, problem solving, anger management, and vocational skills training. Presently there are three homes capable of housing three clients each, and are staffed twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. Program staff provides all transportation for the clients. Residents must choose to be at Caprock and must be under the jurisdiction of the court. Caprock believes that the program can help the client while ensuring public safety.

Clients are under very close staff supervision initially in the line of sight of staff at all times except when in their rooms or bathroom. The client level system consists of nine individual levels starting with an extremely tight structure. This structure gradually lessens to the point that they are progressed to outpatient status, and then graduation. While the client is participating in the Caprock program they attend sexual offense specific group therapy, living/residential group, education group, and money management once per week. Individual therapy is provided as needed, but is discouraged due to the "leveraging" clients do as a result. Additionally, clients are given biofeedback using plethysmograph and polygraph testing to monitor and enhance progress in the program. Clients are also provided a training program on how to stop deviant fantasies and then receive biofeedback on the plethysmograph coupled with red, yellow, and green lights that the operator uses to convey to clients when they are experiencing arousal to inappropriate stimuli (yellow or red), or when they are experiencing arousal to appropriate stimuli (green). Occasionally, some clients are on medications as per medical evaluation and prescription and approved by the Human Rights Committee.

All Caprock full-time staff and therapists meet once per month to share information and coordinate treatment strategies. This allows staff to become aware of client's progress and problems including their specific thinking errors; therefore they can confront the client's thinking errors in the most effective manner when they occur. This also enables staff to help clients with their homework. Each client has a case manager from Mesa Developmental Services, with whom Caprock meets with on a monthly basis. Typical placement of Caprock clients is a result of the criminal courts, as a condition of probation or parole. There are also cases of imposition of disability. Caprock meets with the client's probation/parole officer and coordinates treatment plans on a regular basis. Caprock organizes meetings with collateral agencies and staff in order to immerse the client in a therapeutic milieu. The length of time a client will spend on the program is indeterminate, but it is believed to be approximately eight years. In some cases, after an initial placement as a condition of probation or parole, an imposition of developmental disability can require participation in the Caprock program.

The Colorado Department of Human Services, usually via the local Community Centered Board which services the geographical area in which the perspective client lives, must approve funding; MDS also must approve placement in Caprock if the client is from outside Mesa County. The community's Department of Social Services can on occasion obtain funding. Caprock accepts only clients from Western slope of Colorado.

Our mission is to provide individuals an environment that encourages the adoption of appropriate behavior patterns.

Caprock is a non- profit corporation that provides residential security, treatment, and rehabilitation services to developmentally disabled persons who have been convicted of, imposed of, or admit to criminal behavior. Program clients will be ensured the opportunity to participate in treatment for behavioral disorders, criminal thinking, cognitive distortions, daily living skills, problem solving, anger management and vocational skills training.

The program objectives are to provide an adequate level of community safety, deter criminal activities, modify behavior, and rehabilitate program clients using the following cliental and non-cliental services:

•  Supervision of client activities in and outside the facilities

•  On going substance abuse monitoring and/or testing

•  Line of sight supervision in public

•  Job placement and monitoring

•  Individual guidance counseling and comprehensive case management

•  On site contemporary offender treatment groups with qualified therapists

The program uses a behavior modification approach centered on developing the client's desire for self-improvement through the use of various incentives that must be consistently earned by the client.

The program administration and the staff are committed to maintaining a professional and supportive atmosphere, while administering consistent and fair treatment of clients. In order to accomplish this, the program will maintain a highly structured environment requiring client accountability, which is instrumental to successful program completion and rehabilitation.