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501(c)(3) Nonprofit • Serving Douglas County, Colorado • EIN 33-3199124

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Your gift keeps someone in the room.

JLC Wellness Collective provides trauma-responsive wellness, transition mentorship, and community programming for people across Douglas County. For Veterans, First Responders, neurodivergent young adults, and families who need support that goes deeper than a single appointment, we are the room they come back to.
Every donation funds a seat, a session, or a next step for someone in your community. Beyond Jen's direct clinical work, JLC coordinates a network of trusted practitioners providing complementary wellness modalities, so your gift builds infrastructure that serves people for years to come.
  • Why People Give

Why people give to JLC.

JLC Wellness Collective runs programs across three service areas: trauma-responsive care for those who have served, transition mentorship for neurodivergent young adults, and community programming that keeps people connected. Donors choose where they want their dollars to land, or give to the general fund that keeps all three moving.

Honor those who serve.

Veterans and First Responders carry what most people never see. They come home from service or shift work carrying weight that doesn't have a name in most clinical settings. JLC's trauma-responsive wellness programming provides structured support across all 8 Dimensions of Wellness, not just mental health. Beyond Jen's direct clinical work, JLC coordinates access to a network of vetted practitioners offering neurofeedback, somatic therapy, yoga, Safe and Sound Protocol, EMDR, and other complementary modalities, all clinically integrated by someone who knows the client's whole story.
Your gift helps make this kind of sustained, whole-person, clinically coordinated support accessible to Veterans and First Responders who need it.

Invest in who's coming up.

The ELEV8 Mentorship Program is a 9-month intensive designed for neurodivergent young adults (18-25) navigating the transition to independent adulthood. It combines practical, relational mentorship with personalized guidance across the 8 Dimensions of Wellness, building the skills, identity, and community that young adults need to move forward. Most participants cannot cover the full cost of the program on their own.
Donor support makes scholarships possible, and scholarships make ELEV8 accessible to the young adults who need it most.

Strengthen the community around you.

Community Lift is JLC's practical support arm: Thanksgiving meals, clothing, emergency assistance, and resource connection for families and individuals navigating hard stretches. It runs year-round because hard stretches don't wait for a calendar.
Gifts to Community Lift fund people-in-need programming that operates with dignity as its organizing principle.
  • About Your Donation

What your donation funds: coordinated access to care.

JLC operates an integrative care coordination model. Jen provides direct clinical services, including talk therapy, clinical assessments, and program facilitation. Beyond that, JLC coordinates a network of trusted practitioners offering complementary modalities: neurofeedback, yoga, somatic therapy, Safe and Sound Protocol (a nervous-system calming protocol), and EMDR. Your provider knows your whole story, and your care works together instead of in silos.

This model is what makes JLC different from a single-modality practice or a fragmented institutional referral system. It is also what makes donor support essential.

Why the model needs funding

Insurance does not always cover complementary modalities. Neurofeedback, therapeutic yoga, and Safe and Sound Protocol are variably covered. When a Veteran's treatment plan includes these modalities alongside Jen's direct clinical work, donor funds bridge the gap between "clinically recommended" and "financially accessible."

What donor money funds

  • Coordination infrastructure that connects clients to the right practitioners at the right time
  • Scholarship access to network modalities when insurance falls short
  • Practitioner vetting so every provider in the network meets JLC's clinical standards
  • Community programming (Faith-Grounded Study Groups, Community Lift, group wellness) that keeps people connected between clinical sessions

Support Veterans and First Responders Specifically

Want your gift to go directly to JLC's trauma-responsive wellness programming for Veterans and First Responders? Give through our dedicated Veterans fund.

One-time gift: Every dollar supports a seat, a session, or a step forward for someone in your community.

Monthly giving: Monthly giving lets us plan ahead and serve consistently. When you give monthly, you are not just funding a program. You are funding continuity.

  • Our Foundation

For those who share our foundation.

JLC Wellness Collective is built on a deep conviction that every person has inherent worth and purpose. That conviction shows up in every program we run, for every person we serve, regardless of their background or beliefs.

For donors who share our faith foundation, know that this work grows from Jen Canning's calling to serve those who need it most. Clinical excellence and spiritual depth are not separate tracks at JLC. They are the same work, held together by the belief that whole-person wellness includes the parts of us that are hardest to name.

If that resonates with you, if you believe in supporting a practice where clinical rigor meets faith-grounded care, we invite you to partner with us.

JLC Wellness Collective believes healing must extend beyond the individual. Our work supports veterans, first responders, spouses, children, and families as a whole. We recognize that trauma, stress, and life transitions affect entire family systems. Our approach combines traditional counseling with holistic wellness strategies designed to support emotional, mental, relational, occupational, environmental, intellectual, physical, and spiritual well-being — the 8 Dimensions of Wellness. Many of these supportive services are not fully covered by insurance, creating a need for community partnerships and donor support.

Jen Canning, Founder

Faith-Grounded Study Groups

JLC's Faith-Grounded Study Groups explore spiritual wellness through shared study, honest conversation, and community. For donors who want to support this specifically, your gift funds the gathering space, study materials, and facilitation that make these groups possible.

If you would like to direct a gift toward Faith-Grounded Study Groups, reach out to [email protected].

About Us

We believe that real change doesn't come from programs alone — it comes from relationships. From walking alongside people in their struggles and victories.

JLC Wellness Collective is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving Douglas County, Colorado.
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