ABOUT US
CPS Team - Reverend Susan (seated), Carolyn, Mike and Eva (left to right, standing)
Why Choose Our Team
We have a great team lead by Reverend Susan Lyon, who started this resourceful community company in her own kitchen in 1983. Throughout the years while helping thousands of people find work, her and her team are dedicated to helping thousands more with resources and employment.
OUR MISSION
We strive to find the best employees to grow our community's businesses because we are dedicated to help those who seek to help themselves by providing them employment counseling and opportunities to change their lives. We are very UNIQUE...Our Christian based roots allow us to help anyone and everyone who wants to change their lives.
We have a great team lead by Reverend Susan Lyon, who started this resourceful community company in her own kitchen in 1983. Throughout the years while helping thousands of people find work, her and her team are dedicated to helping thousands more with resources and employment.
OUR MISSION
We strive to find the best employees to grow our community's businesses because we are dedicated to help those who seek to help themselves by providing them employment counseling and opportunities to change their lives. We are very UNIQUE...Our Christian based roots allow us to help anyone and everyone who wants to change their lives.
OUR VISION
We want to put our community back to work through HOPE, STRUCTURE, & EMPLOYMENT with the BEST employer!
Titus 3:14 "And let our own people really learn to apply themselves to good deeds - to honest employment- so that they may be able to provide for daily necessities..."
WHO WE ARE
Care Placement Services (“CPS”) is a full service employment agency for the poor in the Denver Metro area. We work with businesses in the area to understand their job needs and then take those requests into the community to those in poverty and put people back to work. We have found that there are more jobs available than can be filled by today’s workforce and yet there are hundreds of those in poverty not working today. CPS bridges that gap by counseling those in poverty, helping them with life skills and getting them back to work. Helping individuals in poverty to find and keep jobs is the ultimate solution to the poverty and homeless problem.
CPS is a division of My Beloved Ministries, a 501(c) (3) organization which has provided support services to the poor for more than 30 years. MBM runs a boarding house which serves up to 10 individuals and families, most of them homeless. The boarding house takes in homeless people and transitions them back to stable housing. MBM also runs a food bank for low-income housing and apartments in and around Westminster, Colorado and provides other services to the poor in the area. CPS is a natural extension of MBM whereby we move those we serve into independent lives by finding them jobs and helping to stabilize their lives through employment, housing and other needs. CPS is run as division of CPS with separate bank accounts, funding and etc.
Pastor Susan Lyons is the President of MBM and has been involved with those in poverty for over 30 years. Throughout that time she has supported individuals to be productive members of the workforce. Pastor Susan coordinates a team of 3 – 5 volunteers to do interviews with prospective clients, provide counseling services and coordinate with local employers as to their employment needs.
We want to put our community back to work through HOPE, STRUCTURE, & EMPLOYMENT with the BEST employer!
Titus 3:14 "And let our own people really learn to apply themselves to good deeds - to honest employment- so that they may be able to provide for daily necessities..."
WHO WE ARE
Care Placement Services (“CPS”) is a full service employment agency for the poor in the Denver Metro area. We work with businesses in the area to understand their job needs and then take those requests into the community to those in poverty and put people back to work. We have found that there are more jobs available than can be filled by today’s workforce and yet there are hundreds of those in poverty not working today. CPS bridges that gap by counseling those in poverty, helping them with life skills and getting them back to work. Helping individuals in poverty to find and keep jobs is the ultimate solution to the poverty and homeless problem.
CPS is a division of My Beloved Ministries, a 501(c) (3) organization which has provided support services to the poor for more than 30 years. MBM runs a boarding house which serves up to 10 individuals and families, most of them homeless. The boarding house takes in homeless people and transitions them back to stable housing. MBM also runs a food bank for low-income housing and apartments in and around Westminster, Colorado and provides other services to the poor in the area. CPS is a natural extension of MBM whereby we move those we serve into independent lives by finding them jobs and helping to stabilize their lives through employment, housing and other needs. CPS is run as division of CPS with separate bank accounts, funding and etc.
Pastor Susan Lyons is the President of MBM and has been involved with those in poverty for over 30 years. Throughout that time she has supported individuals to be productive members of the workforce. Pastor Susan coordinates a team of 3 – 5 volunteers to do interviews with prospective clients, provide counseling services and coordinate with local employers as to their employment needs.
Employment Agencies for the Poor
CPS is one of the few Employment Agencies structured as a non-profit whereby our services are free to workers (other than the $20 monthly Membership Fee). Most non-profits serving the poor in the field of employment services do counseling, resume work and etc., but stop short of actually finding jobs for workers. CPS goes that extra distance. We act as a full service employment agency working with employers who rely on CPS to send them employees that fit their needs. This saves the employer the need to go through the laborious process of culling through voluminous job applicants. CPS pre-selects a few workers who fit the skill set required and from this short list the company hires the employee.
“For-profit” employment agencies require high fees to sustain the organization. These agencies charge workers between 19% and 28% of the worker’s wages for the first year of employment. The fees range from a low of $3,000 for a minimum wage job to a high of $20,000 for higher wage jobs. This is a very material part of low income worker’s wages and often precludes their success in taking the job or continuing in the job. CPS solves this problem.
CPS is one of the few Employment Agencies structured as a non-profit whereby our services are free to workers (other than the $20 monthly Membership Fee). Most non-profits serving the poor in the field of employment services do counseling, resume work and etc., but stop short of actually finding jobs for workers. CPS goes that extra distance. We act as a full service employment agency working with employers who rely on CPS to send them employees that fit their needs. This saves the employer the need to go through the laborious process of culling through voluminous job applicants. CPS pre-selects a few workers who fit the skill set required and from this short list the company hires the employee.
“For-profit” employment agencies require high fees to sustain the organization. These agencies charge workers between 19% and 28% of the worker’s wages for the first year of employment. The fees range from a low of $3,000 for a minimum wage job to a high of $20,000 for higher wage jobs. This is a very material part of low income worker’s wages and often precludes their success in taking the job or continuing in the job. CPS solves this problem.
Biography of Ms. Lyon
On a spring day April 28, 1982, Susan Lyons’s life was changed forever. She was hit by a passing car while walking along a road in north Denver. She nearly died and probably should have. A doctor at the hospital attributed her recovery to divine intervention, which actually made it into the hospital records. Susan says that was the day her life for Christ started. After eight months Susan left the hospital with the need to support two boys, age 3 and 9 as a single parent. Her husband had abandoned her after the accident - he didn’t want to be married to someone with heavy financial burdens and physical disabilities. At that difficult time Susan’s sole support was from old friends and some new ones. Some people she had never met before came forward to help her out which impacts her still to this day.
The accident and her disabilities took away a very lucrative job. Even though she had been out of work for eight months she didn’t qualify for public assistance or services. With no support and a single mom Susan had the idea to use her prior experience in job placement to put her life back together. So she sat at the kitchen table, paper and pen in hand and started an employment service. She particularly focused on finding jobs for people where life's circumstances had caused their lives to cave in. She adopted as her axiom, if you work for God, God will work for you and.
It worked. Over time Susan became a Pastor and opened My Beloved Ministries in Denver which to this day serves as a food bank, boarding house and support services to the poor. In over 30 years of service she has helped hundreds of people, many with employment support and services.
On a spring day April 28, 1982, Susan Lyons’s life was changed forever. She was hit by a passing car while walking along a road in north Denver. She nearly died and probably should have. A doctor at the hospital attributed her recovery to divine intervention, which actually made it into the hospital records. Susan says that was the day her life for Christ started. After eight months Susan left the hospital with the need to support two boys, age 3 and 9 as a single parent. Her husband had abandoned her after the accident - he didn’t want to be married to someone with heavy financial burdens and physical disabilities. At that difficult time Susan’s sole support was from old friends and some new ones. Some people she had never met before came forward to help her out which impacts her still to this day.
The accident and her disabilities took away a very lucrative job. Even though she had been out of work for eight months she didn’t qualify for public assistance or services. With no support and a single mom Susan had the idea to use her prior experience in job placement to put her life back together. So she sat at the kitchen table, paper and pen in hand and started an employment service. She particularly focused on finding jobs for people where life's circumstances had caused their lives to cave in. She adopted as her axiom, if you work for God, God will work for you and.
It worked. Over time Susan became a Pastor and opened My Beloved Ministries in Denver which to this day serves as a food bank, boarding house and support services to the poor. In over 30 years of service she has helped hundreds of people, many with employment support and services.