IDEA takes pride in their highly experienced and caring staff.  Today they would like to honor Marcela Paiz and Ben Montano.

Marcela Paiz, BS, CAC III is IDEA’s President/CEO and she founded IDEA in 1995.  With over 15 years of experience in the field she has expanded the reach of IDEA services by establishing offices in Aurora, Brighton and Thornton.  With a “hands on” approach, her expertise is in prevention and treatment of family violence and addictions as well as in parenting.  Her 25 years prior experience in human services, diversity and community relations have helped pave the way in her vision of providing services that are linguistically and culturally appropriate to the communities IDEA services.

Ben Montaño, CAC III is the Administrative Director for IDEA.  Ben has been part of the IDEA team for over 10 years.  As Administrative Director he focuses on insuring that IDEA is offering the highest quality services and that staff and clients alike have a positive experience when at IDEA.  He specializes in the training and developing of staff and serves as a link between all IDEA locations.