Savio is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization serving Colorado's Front Range. Our organization provides specialized support, treatment, and intervention services that have been proven to promote child safety and effective parenting, and to stabilize adolescents in family care and other environments of long term support.
In the early 1960's, four philanthropic citizens decided to start an orphanage in West Denver. They purchased a beautiful red brick mansion built in 1910 at 325 King Street. The building had been used as a tuberculosis ward and had a dormitory attached to the back. Savio is supervised by a Board of Trustees (9), a majority of whom are Denver Lions, and a legal counsel. They employ the Executive Director, William S. Hildenbrand, who in turn leads a staff of approximately 188. Savio intervenes in the lives of families to strengthen them so they may keep their children and remain an intact family. Without these services, most of which are delivered in the families' home, children and adolescents would be placed in foster, group and correctional care. The pain inflicted on the child, even when removed from a frightful home, is extremely destructive and the negative implications for society are multiple. Our goal is to educate families in a prompt fashion and to quickly terminate our intrusion into their lives.
