Community Partners, collaborators and supporters help provide the resources we need year round to help others through our education, prevention, research and awareness programs, as well as patient support!
Would you like to become a 2025 Community Partner? Contact monica@coloradoticks.org for information and application!
IGeneX, Inc. is a specialized clinical reference laboratory focusing on Lyme disease and other associated Tick-Borne diseases. IGeneX, Inc. was founded in 1991 and since then has provided personalized service to private practice physicians, hospitals, and other clinical reference laboratories worldwide. IGeneX is recognized worldwide as offering the most comprehensive testing available by hiring highly skilled professional laboratory personnel and using the most advanced techniques and instruments.
At Sawyer Products, We Keep You Outdoors and protected from Lyme Disease with our odorless after drying fabric insect treatment, Permethrin. From the sidewalks of Manhattan to the thick woods of Maine, Sawyer Permethrin will repel and kill ticks mosquitoes, chiggers, mites, and 55 others species of insects for 6 weeks or 6 washes when applied to clothing and gear. When paired with a topical repellent such as our Picaridin or Deet repellents, you will have your optimal repellency. Sawyer has been a COTBDAA Community Partner since 2018! For more information on all of their products, please visit www.sawyer.com
Buying and wearing clothes treated with permethrin can help reduce your chance of a tick bite. It protects against mosquitoes and other biting insects too! Shop Insect Shield through this link and use our affiliate code COLORADOTICKS. You get 15% off first purchase & COTBDAA gets 10% of the sale! Monies that support our efforts in education, prevention, research and advocacy, including patient support! Protect yourself, your family and pets from exposure to ticks. Insect Shield has been a COTBDAA Community Partner since 2016! Click here to start shopping!
Watch Interview of COTBDAA Co-Founder/President, Monica White, with Insect Shield’s Mary Collins HERE!
Ravel Health — Changing the Way You’re Treated
Get paired with experienced, curated Lyme and mold-literate practitioners dedicated to your healing through virtual care visits and personalized testing and treatment protocols, all from the comfort of your own home.
Chronic symptoms of Lyme, mold and other-hard-to-diagnose conditions can unravel people’s lives. Insurance companies rarely cover the cost of anything for patients with long-term symptoms, and most providers find our conditions mysterious and challenging. Ravel is changing all that by creating a patient journey that is on-demand, affordable, and tailored specifically to your unique needs. Ravel is now live in CO, CT, IA, MN, NE, PA, TX, WA & WI. Please email Jaime at jaime@ravel.health or Kevin at kevin@ravel.health with any questions.
Soul Tribe Yoga Collective is an online yoga studio founded by Lyme patient Milena Pastore. Her journey to overcome Lyme disease inspired her to create a unique yoga and meditation offering designed exclusively for chronic illness patients. Soul Tribe Yoga Collective is an inclusive virtual studio featuring Milena’s carefully curated healing yoga and meditation classes for individuals and groups. Milena creates a safe and welcoming setting through which students can join a compassionate and supportive community. More information, including New Student Registration and the Weekly Group Class Schedule, can be found at soultribeyc.com.
Hop tea is what happens when you brew tea like a craft beer. Unexpected, yet surprisingly familiar. A new way to experience hops. Bold, refreshing and a bit unusual. No alcohol, no sugars, no gluten, no additives or any fermentation. Many of their brews are also caffeine free, make these unique hop tea very “Lyme friendly.” And best of all…Hoplark cares about their community! Order your limited edition special brew for May “The Margarita One”…fighting Lyme with lime all month long! Bonus is that the back of the can is full of awareness and resources regarding Lyme & other Tick-borne diseases! Get yours!
Lymedisease.org is grounded in the principles of patient empowerment, participation, and self-determination. They fight to make the patient voice stronger to support science-based advocacy, bring about legislative change, and create a future where Lyme patients can receive the treatments they need to get well. LymeDisease.org empowers individual patients by educating them, amplifying their collective voice, and providing research tools like our published big data surveys and the MyLymeData patient registry. To learn more and become a member of LymeDisease.org, please click here. Membership includes full access to The Lyme Times, an incredible resource for patients and providers.
Center for Lyme Action is a 501c4 dedicated to growing federal funding for Lyme disease in an effort to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure. Values are: bi-partisan, inclusive, humane, and scientific. COTBDAA supports the annual efforts of CLA to grow federal funding for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. Join these annual efforts as an advocate here!
Great food…great people! Moonlight Mondays at Moonlight Pizza and BrewPub. On Moonlight Monday 10% of their daily sales are donated to community organizations. COTBDAA was the grateful recipient of a Moonlight Monday donations annually 2017-2024.
