Title: "Step Denver - Home to 90/19 Funding, Misandry, Shepherds, Lies, Degradation, Injustice, Bias & Waste"
Step Denver (previously Step 13 Evolution Process' ) was founded by Ray Hayworth as a transitional housing program in May, 83'. Later, in August 91,; then, Executive Director Bob Core' was honored to testify in a Congressional hearing about addiction and the cycle of dependency on government benefits, putting Step 13 on the map nationally. Bob and Step 13 volunteers were then recognized for their service to the community by President George H.W. Bush, receiving the 540th " Daily Point of Light" Award. Forty-two years later, Step Denver is a caricature of its prior self, a beacon of wasted donor money paying excessive amounts on payroll & administrative fees (long gone are the awarded "volunteers") to pompous shepherd still recovering addicts, once residents themselves, ruled by matriarchal, misandrist executive director Meghan Shay. At the top of the hierarchy is ghost to the organization figurehead Paul Scudo, CEO, a hospitality 27-years executive background for leading global hospitality companies, also known as full-service hotels, much unlike prison-like recovery center facilities enclosed and surrounded by bars, ironically. Actually, Step Denver's 2029 Larimer Street facility, adjacent to Lodo downtown Denver, is closest in resemblance and character to a food-less, regimented army barracks than a full-service hotel (ironically and premonitionly, the 3-level structure, including army bunkment basement was formerly an army clothing depot). There is zero hospitality transfer to residents - closer to a prison environment (note: I've been confided by residents who've been in institutions, jails, and prisons - I've never received even a misdemeanor charge) mandated by 62 rules of degradation. In the two months in total as an inquisitive, intuitive, observant, well-educated, articulate addict I can summarize Step Denver (as partly titled above) as a "Home to 90/10 Funding, Misandry, Shepherds, Lies, Degradatio, Injustice, Bias, Fear-based instill essence, Callousness, and Waste." Step Denver, today, is a program of 4-6 month voluntary imprisonment enclosed and surrounded literally by (drinking) bars. After 4-6 months of hell on Earth on good behavior you can be released to one of their five, 5 bedroom homes for up to 18 month stays on good behavior. The 2029 facility and fPfizer homes provide well below market fees to residents to save money, this is good on its face and a bona fide boom to investors willingness to step in. The problem is the homes operated at an annual loss in 24' of $170K , an offset to profits for a 501C-3 home that purposely collects no federal funding to avoid any oversight, yet maintains the 501 Designation, something that should be looked into, a loophole or fraud? Step Denver operates on a 90/10 funding model; translation: 90% of the budget (again, paying out non-taxed, exorbitant payroll and administrative fees) is funded 4% by corporate donations, 32% foundations/grants, and 64% individuals. To justify collections from donors they falsely report success rates for former residents (whether they stayed stayed one day or up to two years) on two primary components - still sober as of this survey call, no particulars; e.g. since they left the program, one year, in-between benders, etc.) and still working full-time measured as 32+ hours, again no particulars to since you left program, gaps yes or no. This survey is conducted sporadically over a year from departure by the RSM (Recovery Support Manager) who last managed the resident upon departure. at anytime a RSM ( usually there are only 5 total " managing" progress of 60+ active in-house residents any time, so 12+ each. So in addition to managing 12 active residents at a time they're supposedly calling all the former residents up to one year departure to "see"/determine/gauge how their recovery is progreesing. Given the extremely high, short-term turnover they would be required to call, gauge, monitor, and survey hundreds of former residents a year. Step Denver strives to put as much "lipstick on the pig" to keep the money train rolling down the tracks with their donors to keep up with the budget paying their exorbitant salaries so the survey stats are simply false, misleading, created 100% internally (no outside 3rd party surveys are done). They do not count into their statistics former residents not contacted or responded which would and should be counted in the " loss" column as you can only imagine only the ones doing well are going to pick up the phone or respond. The non-responders are not responding because they are using, period, yet they are not counted at all, the "silent majority." The national average of former programs residents not using up to a year later and having full-time employment is 10%; yet, almost comically and absurdly, Step Denver sells their donors on achieving 80%+. "Ocean Front Property in Arizona." read more
