Background Statement
In 1982, three Denver businessmen became concerned about the 17,601 metro area women who would choose to have abortions that year because there was no one to offer them an alternative. These men decided to spearhead a group of local Christians in establishing a place where women experiencing crisis pregnancies could find the hope and alternatives they needed to choose life.
In September of 1982, the Board of Directors was formed and Penny Salazar-Phillips, who had a Master's Degree in Social Work, was hired as Executive Director. In September, we saw our first clients in borrowed office space.
In 2022, Alternatives celebrated 40 years of impacting all communities of Denver. Our various programs and services have served over 100,000 teens, women and men. Today, we cover a wide geographical area with clinics in Aurora, Downtown Denver, and Inverness/Englewood and in December of 2024, we will open our newest clinic in Arvada!
The history continues to be written each day through Alternatives Pregnancy Center. Generations are impacted, families are united and babies are born as teens, women and men discover there are alternatives to abortion.