Butch Lewis
Butch Lewis comes to David’s House with substantial experience in both the for-profit business environment and the nonprofit sector. After high school Mr. Lewis joined the United States Marine Corps where he served for five years. He has also served supporting the United States Army as they ramped up to deploy after 9/11. Mr. Lewis attended Purdue University, majoring in Industrial Management and Organizational Leadership & Supervision, and Oxford University in England where he studied international conflict management. He was the founder of University Life, a West Lafayette, Indiana, based company designed to consolidate marketing on college campuses. In addition to these business ventures, Mr. Lewis has also worked as the Marketing Director for Trinitas Ventures, an Indiana-based land development company specializing in student housing. After leaving University Life he worked with several universities, government and non-profit organizations including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, Harvard University School of Law, Dallas School District, Homeland Security and K-Love Radio. Butch now lives in the foothills of Denver with his wife Beth, children Devon, Aydon and their dog Dozer. His personal interests include triathlons, snowboarding, movies and spending time with family.
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Matt Louzon
Matt Louzon has worked in a variety of therapeutic roles with clients in the Denver area since 1993. Primarily, he worked with Excelsior Youth Center for 23 years. He developed their Community Based Services Program, coordinated many alternative treatment approaches for youth and families, trained staff in trauma informed care, and created a continuum of care to help families remain in their communities. Matt has spent 17 years as an individual addiction therapist and group facilitator with Saddle Rock counseling. Additionally, he is the Clinical Director for David’s Sober Living Community. A 501(c3) recovery community serving the Denver area since 2017.
Matt specializes in co-occurring treatment approaches that are based on the individual’s needs. Interventions are holistic in nature are designed to create long term mood management strategies.
Educational experience includes, an MA in Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado and a BS from Michigan State University. Matt has completed the Substance Abuse LAC curriculum from Colorado School of Family Therapy and has extensive training in Dialectic Behavior Therapy. Credentials include, LPC#4364, and is a Certified Motivational Interviewing Therapist (CMiT).
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Jenn Drapeaux
Jenn Drapeaux brings a decade of behavioral health experience to the Spero Recovery Center. Originally from South Dakota, Jenn studied biology and psychology, graduating from Northern State University in 2013. Jenn began her career as a floor technician at an acute psychiatric facility, and then went on to serve as a Mental Health Specialist on Native American Reservations specializing in suicide prevention and working on the front lines to address substance use, domestic violence and trauma. Most recently, Jenn has been representing premier trauma and addiction programs on a National level in the role of Business Development Executive.
Jenn found her passion for this work through her own personal journey and from witnessing the devastating effect unresolved trauma and addiction has had on family members and loved ones.
As the Director of Marketing and Admissions, Jenn is responsible for promoting the message of Spero Recovery Center, one that instills hope in individuals, educating providers and families about the resources available and introducing guests to the process of finding recovery.
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Blake Johnson
Blake grew up in Des Moines Iowa, and first become active in the recovery community in 2012. He found his love for the Rocky Mountains through extensive backpacking and mountaineering in Wyoming’s Wind River Range in his early 20’s before moving to Colorado.
Blake started working in the drug and alcohol treatment field in 2017 as a house manager for a premier addiction treatment facility in Denver. He is currently working towards his bachelors degree in Social Work at Colorado State University as well as his CAC II.
Outside of work, Blake spends most of his time fly fishing, snowboarding, and hiking with his beloved cat Charlie.
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Rourke Weaver
Rourke Weaver is the current Executive Director at Spero Recovery. Before joining Spero Rourke spent the previous three years at Red Rock Recovery Center as the Director of Business Development. While at Red Rock Recovery, he was instrumental in transforming a newly created and underinformed program into one of the most trusted programs in Colorado. The eight years before that Rourke worked in the Recovery Support Services field with The Phoenix, where he ran programing, opened chapters in Colorado and nationally, lead events and started his advocacy work. This experience led him to form a deep passion for the power of community and the necessity for greater focus on building stronger bridges into recovery. Taking the love he has for recovery, finding a sense of belonging and the previous decade working in the field of Recovery, he joined the team at Spero to build a program that was affordable for Colorado families and operated as a place of community and connection first rather than what insurance will pay or clinical modalities. This is by no means to say these are not necessary programs Rourke simply believes that diversity in programs and accessibility are very important.
Being an advocate for Treatment, Recovery and Recovery Support Services he has, and continues to, engage in the discussion around substance use disorder, recently passing legislation and organizing stakeholders to fight for better regulation and better funding for both Treatment and Recovery. Rourke is the Attorney General Appointed Co-Chair of the Recover Ready Colorado work group, tasked with presenting the Recovery Strategic plan for Colorado. He is the Vice President of Colorado Recovery Residencies, Colorado Professional Liaison Association – Leadership committee, and member with the Colorado Providers Association.
Rourke continues to have a deep passion for programming and working with those in or seeking recovery. Truly enjoying the process of building strong teams, meaningful programming and honest connections that becomes a lasting pillar for long-term recovery.
In his free time Rourke is an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, mountain biking and enjoys time with his wonderful Family and Friends.
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Tye Stovall
Tye Stovall is the Operations Manager at Spero Recovery Center, responsible for overseeing day to day operations of the program. Prior to joining the Spero team, Tye has been working in the field of addiction recovery for over four years. Having found long-term recovery, Tye began his career in the addiction treatment field when he was given the opportunity to work at a facility, of which he was an alumni.
Similar to Spero, Tye has spent a large portion of his career in the treatment field working in the non-profit arena. Throughout this time, he has worked in numerous recovery programs in a variety of capacities. Tye has also pursued additional credentials, such as a Certified Addiction Counselor I and a Peer and Family Support Specialist in order to best serve the inviduals and families he works with. Tye’s objective in the field is to make recovery possible for anyone wishing to escape the perils of the disease of addiction.
Tye continues to have a deep passion for his own recovery and finds fulfillment in sharing this passion with others. In his free time, Tye can be found participating in non-profit volunteer work geared toward the betterment of his community.
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Jessi Lawin
Bio coming soon.
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Camryn Byrne
Camryn Byrne is a Certified Addiction Counselor and our LGBTQIA+ support specialist and manages the day-to-day operations and culture of Spero Sober Living. In that role, she is responsible for the overall health of the houses and the residents, regularly coordinating efforts with individual house management teams to provide solutions for residents and house issues. As well, she oversees the intake/discharge process for future and current residents.
Finally, Camryn is our point of contact with various Colorado Judicial Districts and their probation offices and also the State Department of Corrections. In this role she regularly attends District Court sessions and works with the judiciary and its staff to effect solutions for their clients.
Prior to working at Spero, she was a consultant in the technology and broadcasting fields, working with DIRECTV and XM Radio in their early years. She is an Army Veteran with tours in Central America and Alaska in the 1980’s while attached to the 4th Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She has two Army Commendation Medals and an Army Achievement Medal. Camryn gained her initial experience in broadcasting while in the Army.
You can usually find Camryn grilling, barbequing, cooking, or baking when she’s not at work. She is constantly busy with her husband Drew and two “bullador” dogs, Aspen and Kodiak.
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Patrick Smith, Esq.
Patrick Smith comes to David’s House Sober Community as an attorney experienced in corporate, business, real estate, and regulatory law. As such, he has been in private practice in Manhattan and Connecticut and general counsel to a multinational corporation in Colorado. He is admitted to the Bar in New York and Colorado and retired from Connecticut.
Further, as a businessman Mr. Smith has been involved in the establishment of a retail chain in Philadelphia, the expansion of an international wholesaler in the Rocky Mountain States and the revival of a historic restaurant franchise in New England. As such he contributes a unique mixture of legal acumen and business practicality to the operation of David’s House Sober Community.
Mr. Smith hold a Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts (Latin) from Hobart College.
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Chris Conn
A native southerner, having lived in Nashville and Birmingham, Chris joins us most recently from Minneapolis where he has been in Business Development for a national architectural group for the past two years. Chris’ passion for recovery is a direct result of his own struggle of substance abuse and PTSD. An Alumni of The Retreat in Wayzata, MN, Chris brings valuable personal and professional understanding of peer based treatment to the program. Chris’ natural ability to network along with his charisma and experience developing relationships in business will lend itself well as Development Director. Soon to be a dog dad to a German Short Hair Pointer, you can find Chris most weekends out fly fishing or in the mountains.
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Josh Ross
Joining Spero as the Marketing Manager, Josh Ross is combining his creative skill in marketing and advertising with his passion for mental health and recovery. After graduating Cum Laude from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Josh worked primarily in the marketing industry.
Josh served as an executive board member for the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health for five years and hopes to make a difference at Spero through previous experience and desire to help those in need.
In his free time, Josh can be found practicing his love of fishing around his favorite spots in Colorado, reading advertising magazines and spending time with his loved ones.
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Robert Oshsner
Robert is CCAR certified recovery coach and a graduate of the Stout Street foundation. A two year intensive in patient program. Robert is Program Coordinator for Spero Recovery sober living homes. He enjoys helping people find their way in recovery as well as other areas of their life. Robert is also apart of 12 steps recreation and enjoy playing volleyball and softball with others in recovery. Robert loves spending time with his daughter, playing guitar and working on my own personal growth.
“ Do the next right Thing and it will work out better than you could’ve even imagined.”
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Peter Palladino
Born in Stillwater, Oklahoma Graduated high school there and went to college of the Ozarks to play basketball for one semester. Realizing I wasn’t going to play I decided to head back to Stillwater to complete college in my hometown at Oklahoma State University. I graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Sciences in Political Science/ Pre Law with minors in Applied Politics, Sociology, and Marketing. After graduating college Peter enlisted in the United States Army where his M.O.S. was Cryptologic Linguistics (Russian). Where his service took him all over the United States. After his military services concluded Peter worked as a compliance specialist for an architecture firm that focused in Americans with Disabilities Act across the U.S. Peter moved to Colorado in 2016 and has lived in Denver ever since. Peter currently works as a Grant coordinator and a Client Advocate for Evergreen Christian Outreach a Non Profit in the Evergreen area. He also manages the Spero House over the weekend. Peter has become Recovery Coach certified and is also working on his CAC certification.
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Bret Rausch
I was born in sterling Colorado Jan 1 1985. I graduated from sterling high school in 2003. All my life music held a special place in my heart. I played in a punk rock band in high school but got more interested in the production part of music more than playing in a band. I interned at a recording studio in Westminster Colorado for a few months and then moved on to a music production school in Phoenix Arizona called the conservatory of recording arts. I graduated from that school and moved on to get a job in Los Angeles California. I worked in music production in Los Angeles for a decade working on movie soundtracks and recording records for various artists in the music scene. My whole life I struggled with drug and alcohol addiction which progressed into adulthood. I lost my gig in Los Angeles because of my addiction and from multiple arrests because of my addiction as well. I moved back to Colorado late 2015 to get sober, which didn’t happen right away. I got into more issues with the legal system and had forced sobriety for a short period of time. Once out of the laws eyes I slowly fell back into my old ways which then landed me into finally reaching out for real help. I found Spero in a a detox I was in and left detox and spent time at Spero rehabilitating. Spero saved my life and I couldn’t be more happy being a part of this team and helping others. I went through a recovery coaching class to become a recovery coach and am working towards being CAC certified. Thanks for reading!
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Jean Healey
I have worked in the treatment industry for years. Before working at Spero I was a director at a leading addiction treatment center in Colorado. After years of working for that organization I realized I wanted to work more face to face with those struggling with addiction and to give back in a more personal way. My story includes a long history of drug and alcohol abuse and the thing that I found works for my recovery is exactly what Spero offers. I am proud to work alongside all the people at Spero and to be on this journey with my trusted coworkers.
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Spero’s Residential Recovery Program Staff
The residential recovery program staff at Spero Recovery Center, are trained and certified at many levels. We have people of all different professions here to help you get to the other side of your addiction.
For example, our residential program staff will help you to learn how to do things like:
- Get proper nutrition
- Be kind to yourself
- Work through your issues
- Interact with others
- Develop life skills
- Get back in shape
In short, with the right amount of care and motivation, anyone can overcome their addiction. Our residential recovery program staff is 100% dedicated to getting you to a point where you can take the reigns in your recovery. We want to see you doing well and being happy while you live a healthy life free of addiction.
What Is It Like At Spero Recovery Center?
At the Spero Recovery Center residential rehab program, you will come in on your first day and your luggage will be checked for items that you should not have. You will turn in your medications, and we will take you to your room. After that, you will join the rest of the group and begin working in programs such as:
- Individual counseling and 12-Step programs
- Family therapy and group therapy
- Experiential therapy and alternative therapy
- Life skills training
- Fitness program
As you can see, our highly trained residential program staff will help you recover from your addiction.