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We help at-risk clients declutter their lives.
Boost Self- Sufficiency
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Increase Living Space Safety
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Improve Emotional Well-being
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Sponsor a Space provides community-sponsored professional organizing services, referred by social services partners like you.
Boost Self Sufficiency
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Increase Living Space Safety
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Improve Emotional Well-being
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people had well-being safety checks in Colorado Springs in 2022.
El Paso County Department of Human Services
Our living space impacts everything in our well-being.
For some, it’s more than just clutter - their living environment is holding back their lives and impacting their safety or mental health.
Problem is, not only is it hard to know which neighbors are drowning in a tough season, not everyone is equipped to help.
Led by professional organizers.
Partnered with social services.
We're helping needs-based Colorado Springs residents, who are identified by a social services agency partner, with professional organizing support to help them overcome an overwhelming season in their lives.
Our partnering agencies allow us to reach neighbors who are in the greatest need for organizing support services.
become a partner
We help conquer the clutter-driven chaos impacting your neighbor's well-being.
We empower clients to live at home safely with professional organizing systems that can continue to improve their livelihood. A safe and manageable home environment has been shown to have a direct, positive impact on mental health and well-being.
All of our projects are referred to us by leading local social services partners.
High-risk clients who would benefit from Sponsor A Space:
• Sole provider households
• Those adjusting to a major life event
• Aging clients
• Diabetic clients
• Homebound clients
• Households with special-needs kids
• Households grieving a loss
• Medically fragile clients
• High-risk food allergies households
• Clients managing depression
• Clients managing anxiety
• Households juggling many appointments
Our organizing sessions are judgment-free and at a pace that feels comfortable to the client. This pacing is critical in underlining the client's self-worth and ownership throughout the process.
We need your help to identify and change home-based issues that directly impact our community's overall well-being.
our projects change lives
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Sponsor A Space is a community-sponsored program improving lives
through compassionate organizing sessions in Colorado Springs.
We just started serving clients in 2023.
Celebrate with us as our impact grows!
Our Impact
14
40
7
households
transformed
people
served
partnering
agencies
We declutter + organize living spaces to met the unique needs of neighbors.
A safe + productive living space improves the whole household's well-being.
Our services enhance the efforts of our social services partners.
These projects are only made possible with your help.
No one should struggle through painful clutter alone at home.
Vision
Everyone deserves a space that gives them peace - a place that decreases stress, restores a sense of dignity, and empowers them to lead a productive daily life.
mission
To empower people with limited resources to organize their living space for their emotional well-being.
We help conquer the clutter-driven chaos impacting your client's well-being.
A Memorandum of Understanding
must be completed with Sponsor A Space.
Refer qualifying applicants.
Our website can help you explain our services to clients. Applications are reviewed the first Wednesday of the month.
Change lives!
We offer professional organizing of 1 space for accepted applications at no cost to the applicant.
We know all projects are personal.
We never make clients feel bad about their mess.
For accepted applicants, we offer the following services:
✓ 45-minute in-home Discovery Session
✓ Two 3-hour organizing sessions with two professional organizers
✓ Organizing products
✓ Sorting and decluttering items
✓ Setting up simple, organized systems
✓ Donation drop-off
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I really appreciate Sponsor A Space so much for coming and not judging me. This has been an incredibly hard season, and I feel like such a failure.
THANK YOU for truly helping us get back some space
for my mental health and sanity.
- RECIPIENT TESTIMONY*
*All Spaces are anonymous out of respect of the emotional journey for that neighbor.
We transform spaces and teach skills to maintain a manageable home.
Professional organizing skills training empowers clients to:
• Maintain safe and stable housing
• Make health meals at home
• Safely store and find medications
• Use food before it expires
• Manage depression
• Alleviate anxiety
• Organizing medical supplies
• Attend necessary and preventative appointments
• Keep track of bills, medical forms, and legal paperwork
our Social services partners:
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado
Colorado Community Health Alliance (CCHA) was founded to meet the needs of Health First Colorado (Colorado’s Medicaid Program) members. CCHA's team of Care Coordinators expand access to needed services, promote a more coordinated system of care, and improve quality of care and outcomes.
Colorado Community Health Alliance
El Paso County Department of Human Services (EPCDHS) strive to protect our most vulnerable citizens, keep families together, and help people become self-sufficient. We do this through food and medical assistance, as well as abuse and neglect protection and prevention.
El Paso County Department of Human Services
Family Life Services helps single moms and their children build new futures through faith-based community in a residential program and an outreach program.
Family Life Services
Rocky Mountain Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) provides comprehensive health care services to their participants. One of the main objectives of the PACE program is to enable older adults to live in the community with the support of the PACE organization.
Rocky Mountain PACE
Safe Families for Children create extended family–like supports for desperate families through a community of devoted volunteers who are motivated by faith to keep children safe and keep families intact.
Safe Families for Children - Pikes Peak
TESSA helps women and their children achieve safety and well-being while challenging communities to end sexual and family violence.
TESSA
For those who are struggling,
clutter is more than just stuff.
It's holding back their life.
leadership
Kayla Roebuck
Board Chair
Katie Ferguson-Glidewell
Board Member
Alex Maestas
Board Member
Meghan Jackson
Executive Director
Crystal Klausmeier
Board Member
Read our Leadership Bios
board Members
Meghan Jackson
Executive Director
Meghan believes in the potential of others. Her natural passion for reimagining spaces lead her to helping people improve their lives through peaceful, organized environments.
Her 11 years of experience in social services, with the most notable position being her role at the Department of Human Services (DHS). During that time, she developed a life skills teaching program, built community partnerships, and helped hundreds of community members to greater self-sufficiency. She has a Bachelors of Psychology and Masters in Social Work (MSW).
In 2019, she founded Joyful Spaces, a home organizing business. This career pivot allowed her to embark on her foster care journey, and she quickly realized that this practical support was very similar to her social services experience.
Sponsor A Space is the culmination of Meghan's love of giving, her support of communities, and desire to equip people with tools to develop their own peace and productivity in their daily lives.
Kayla Roebuck
Board Chair
Kayla believes that disorganization has a big impact on mental health. She often uses her natural tendencies for organization to improve her clients' productivity.
Her work experience spans many social work-supporting avenues - from foster care, equine-assisted therapy, to supporting adults with mental and physical disabilities. She has a Bachelors in Psychology and is a Certified Life Coach. She's also volunteered at many social services organizations such as Stable Strides, Mustard Seed, and Tessa.
Kayla is currently a Targeted Case Manager for Adult Community Services. She's motivated by Sponsor A Space's accessibility to bring peace to people who could not otherwise access these services.
Katie Ferguson-Glidewell
Board Member
Katie is passionate about being of service others to foster their growth and empowerment. Her full family life has led her on her own journey of creating systems to organize their busy lives.
Her work has intersected child welfare and adolescent social work during her time as the Department of Human Services' (DHS) Liaison for the Community Mental Health Center. She provided utilization management for youth in the highest levels of care and supervised the DHS Placement Team. She has a Bachelors in American Racial & Multicultural Studies and a Masters in Social Work (MSW).
Katie is currently the Program Supervisor at Fostering Healthy Futures at Lutheran Family Services. She's committed to the Sponsor A Space mission to support our community in such a self-empowering, tangible way.
Alex Maestas
Board Member
Alex believes in the power of interior design to create peaceful environments. He sees a person's natural needs and then creates the surroundings that help them thrive with others.
Since 2008, Alex has specialized as an independent Interior Designer after attending the Art Institute of Denver. He then became a foster parent in 2010, and has supported and advocated for children in both Denver and El Paso counties ever since. When running a home with 3-6 children at a time, the importance of thoughtful organization, space planning, and intentional design become critical for maintaining a healthy living space.
His attention to detail, eye for design, and ability to support our communities' children, made him the perfect mix of qualities to enhance our Sponsor A Space's mission and values.
Meghan Jackson
Executive Director
Meghan believes in the potential of others. Her natural passion for reimagining spaces lead her to helping people improve their lives through peaceful, organized environments.
Her 11 years of experience in social services, with the most notable position being her role at the Department of Human Services (DHS). During that time, she developed a life skills teaching program, built community partnerships, and helped hundreds of community members to greater self-sufficiency. She has a Bachelors of Psychology and Masters in Social Work (MSW).
In 2019, she founded Joyful Spaces, a home organizing business. This career pivot allowed her to embark on her foster care journey, and she quickly realized that this practical support was very similar to her social services experience.
Sponsor A Space is the culmination of Meghan's love of giving, her support of communities, and desire to equip people with tools to develop their own peace and productivity in their daily lives.
Crystal Klausmeier
Board Member
Crystal has never been asked to clean her room. Even from a young age, she has always understood the joy of an organized, clean space. Her own experiences of internal calm that comes an uncluttered external environment driven her belief that home organization work changes lives.
Since 2004, Crystal has worked in variety of social services settings - from crisis pregnancy centers, recovery group home for teen girls, a residential treatment for adolescent sex offenders, and to foster care agencies. She has a Bachelors in Adolescent Studies / Social Services, and is a Board Member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado.
Crystal is currently the Program Directory at CASA of the Pikes Peak Region. Her passion to see people live more empowered, whole lives is a driving force for Sponsor A Space's community vision.
Katie Ferguson-Glidewell
Board Member
Katie is passionate about being of service others to foster their growth and empowerment. Her full family life has led her on her own journey of creating systems to organize their busy lives.
Her work has intersected child welfare and adolescent social work during her time as the Department of Human Services' (DHS) Liaison for the Community Mental Health Center. She provided utilization management for youth in the highest levels of care and supervised the DHS Placement Team. She has a Bachelors in American Racial & Multicultural Studies and a Masters in Social Work (MSW).
Katie is currently the Program Supervisor at Fostering Healthy Futures at Lutheran Family Services. She's committed to the Sponsor A Space mission to support our community in such a self-empowering, tangible way.
Alex Maestas
Board Member
Alex believes in the power of interior design to create peaceful environments. He sees a person's natural needs and then creates the surroundings that help them thrive with others.
Since 2008, Alex has specialized as an independent Interior Designer after attending the Art Institute of Denver. He then became a foster parent in 2010, and has supported and advocated for children in both Denver and El Paso counties ever since. When running a home with 3-6 children at a time, the importance of thoughtful organization, space planning, and intentional design become critical for maintaining a healthy living space.
His attention to detail, eye for design, and ability to support our communities' children, made him the perfect mix of qualities to enhance our Sponsor A Space's mission and values.
frequently-asked questions (FAQs)
Sponsor A Space only accepts applications from our partnering agencies.
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
1. Applicant has been engaged with the referring agency for at least 1 month.
2. Applicant is in a stable living environment in El Paso County.
3. Applicant is not otherwise able to afford professional organizing services.
This is not a requirement. What is most important is to get a sense of how clutter and disorganization in their space is impacting the applicant’s life.
The client is required to be present and participate in organizing services. The client and their Professional Organizer will make a custom plan together to declutter and organize one space to make daily life easier.
Sponsor A Space provides one two-hour follow up organizing session with one organizer to fine-tune the organizing systems put in place.
1. Complete an application with your client.
2. Applications are reviewed the first Wednesday of the month.
Applications must be received by the first day of the month to be considered that month.
3. The referring agency and applicant will be notified within 3 business days if the application has been accepted or not.
People can feel a lot of shame around an unmanageable household. Here are suggestions for approaching this topic:
1. Curiosity: “I’ve noticed that ____ seems stressful to you.”
- Keeping track of papers
- Finding items
- An overflowing pantry
2. Empathy: “You are dealing with a lot. It makes sense that ____ feels unmanageable.”
3. Offer: “Mind if I share an idea? I know an place that offers professional organizing at no cost. They help people tackle clutter and create systems to make daily life easier. Are you interested in learning more?”
*Our website SponsorASpace.org outlines our services for potential clients. We also have flyers you can share with clients.
Our services are very personal. Sponsor A Space is very respectful of the fact that clients are inviting us into their home. Funding for our organizing projects relies on the positive impact of our services. We may share non-identifiable information about projects for fundraising or promotional purposes.
Sponsor A Space is not currently structured to assist with whole house projects like those featured on Hoarders. Each project has a targeted approach to address safety and well-being needs.
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Please reach out if you would like more information on becoming a Partnering Agency or if you have additional questions:
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