This is a  staff list for Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc. in Aurora, CO

(a/k/a Excelsior Youth Center)

(we are working to acquire the complete records for ALL years)

 

We advise current and/or former staff to report any abuses you may have witnessed while working at Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc.  For information on your rights and how to take action, visit www.heal-online.org/blowthewhistle.htm.  If you were fired or forced to resign because you opposed any illegal and/or unethical practices at Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc, you have the right to take action. 

 

If you were harmed (family or survivor) by Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc, please contact info@heal-online.org if you remember the long-term employees and from which years.  This will help!   Also, if you recognize any of these staff as having worked at another program, please send in any information about their past or present employment at other facilities and/or cults.

 

 

Please don’t place your loved one in Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc and rescue them if they are there now. 

 

Name	Unit/Position	Additional Information
Joan Gabrielson	Executive Director	Gabrielson has had various positions at this program since 1973.  Gabrielson is not a licensed counselor, therapist, mental health professional, nor social worker.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Carol Beauchamp-Hunter	Associate Director	Hunter has had various positions at this program since 1973.  Carol Beauchamp-Hunter's license as a registered psychotherapist in CO was cancelled in 1995.  Beauchamp-Hunter is a licensed professional counselor and certified addiction counselor in Colorado.  She has held those licenses since 1995.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Arnold Goldstein	Associate Director	Goldstein has had various accounting positions at this program since 1987.  Arnold Goldstein is not a licensed counselor, therapist, mental health professional, nor social worker.  He was formerly licensed as a psychologist but the license lapsed in 1979.  He is not a licensed professional in Colorado.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Jim Uhernik	Admissions	Uhernik has had various positions at this program since 1999.  Uhernik is a licensed professional counselor and has been since 2004.  However, he has worked for this program since 1999 and was not licensed at time of hiring nor during his first 5 years of employment at this program.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Jann Clevenger	Principal	Clevenger has had various positions at this program since 1988.  Clevenger is not a licensed professional in Colorado and holds no professional licenses in Colorado.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Jim Winter	Program Coordinator	Winter has had various positions at this program since 1974.  Winter is not a licensed counselor, therapist, mental health professional, nor social worker.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Elaine Atwater	Quality Improvement Dir.	Atwater has had various positions at this program since 1979.  Atwater is not a licensed counselor, therapist, mental health professional nor social worker.  She was licensed as a registered psychotherapist in 1995, but, she lost (lapsed) her license in 2005.  She has not been licensed to work in the field since 2005.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Vivian Zlobec	Director of HR	Zlobec has had various positions at this program since 1983.  Zlobec holds no professional licenses in Colorado.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
Kathy Gravely	Director of Dev.	Gravely has worked for Excelsior since 2002 in the same position.  Gravely is not a licensed counselor, therapist, mental health professional nor social worker.  She has never been licensed in Colorado.  Source: https://www.doradls.state.co.us/alison.php
		*We are in the process of adding the board of directors to this page.
NO OTHER NAMES	NO OTHER TITLES	There is no additional information on staff at this location at this time.*
*(Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc., like many other programs in this industry, keeps a "tight lid" on any specific information regarding their staff, qualifications, and practices.  Please contact us with the names of any staff of which you have firsthand knowledge or experience.  Thank you for your help.)
HEAL has received two e-mail reports from survivors.  Both reports allege abuse.  One survivor was in the program in 1998 and the other in 2011.  We are working to obtain additional information on this program.
This program is accredited by the COA (Council on Accreditation).  COA also accredited confirmedly abusive and now closed Pathway Family Center.  COA does not have a proven track record of insuring client safety standards.

 

 Last Updated: January 16th, 2012

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