Changing Practices
We disentangle mental health and criminal justice, build mental health support for schools, promote well-being in the workplace, and improve access to care.
We envision a Colorado where mental health is valued, supported, and protected at every stage of life. By promoting healthy minds, advancing prevention, expanding access to care, strengthening families, and ending health-based discrimination, we work toward a future where everyone has the resources and opportunities to thrive.
Strong Start For Children
We develop brains and behaviors at a rapid pace, not fully maturing until as late as our mid-20s. Preventative care and healthy learning environments are central to ensuring healthy minds and bright futures.
Support For Families
Strong, healthy families – created networks of supportive partnerships – are vitally important to strong, healthy individuals. Education, childcare, stable housing, meaningful employment, and access to health care are all essential to family well-being.
Access To Housing, Supports, and Services
Having a place to call home is an essential element of good health across the lifespan. Access to supports and services prolongs life and enhances health outcomes.
Check out our Access to Housing, Support and Services resources.
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Access to Support and Services
Wellness In Aging
From childhood to old age, the quality of our lives depends on our health of mind. Every phase of life brings its own challenges and opportunities for continuing growth and development.
Reduced Potential Harm From Alcohol And Drugs
Drugs and alcohol have been a part of human experience throughout history. From childhood onward, we thrive if we can reap their benefits while reducing their potential for great harm.
Decriminalize Health Conditions
Too often, law enforcement is our first and only response to people’s need for mental health and substance use care. Disentangling mental health and criminal justice improves health outcomes, saves taxpayer dollars, and enhances community well-being.
End Health-Based Discrimination
Mental health—like physical health—is part of who we are. We need to be active in supporting the soundness of our minds and bodies and increasingly understanding and compassionate with ourselves and others.
Take Action With Us
Help change mental health in Colorado. Your support is vital, and every action powers our work and creates a healthier future for all.
Donate
Donations to Mental Health Colorado help pass laws, change practices and build a movement to promote healthier minds across the lifespan for all Coloradans
Join Brain Wave
Join nearly 2,000 Coloradans who are turning their experience into action. Sign up to become part of the Brain Wave today. Your voice is our most powerful tool for change.
Intern With Us
Gain real-world policy, communications, and nonprofit experience while helping to build a healthier future for all Coloradans.
Volunteer With Us
Join a powerful movement of advocates passing laws, changing practices, and building a healthier future for all Coloradans.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Our work to promote healthier minds across the lifespan gains strength through your sponsorship support.
Share Your Story
Sharing your experience helps end health-based discrimination, inspire hope, and show others they are not alone.
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Receive updates on advocacy, resources, and opportunities to take action for mental health in our state.
Legislation We Supported in 2025
During the 2025 legislative session, we passed key legislation to promote the health and well-being of our communities. That includes bipartisan policies to disentangle mental health from criminal justice, expand access to health services for people on Medicaid, and improve care for people with eating disorders. This year, 69 lawmakers received perfect scores on our legislative scorecard. Thanks to this demonstrated commitment from our elected officials, we’re hopeful for a future where each Coloradan has the chance at a happy, healthy life.
Upcoming Events
2026 Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month is a campaign throughout May that engages thousands of Coloradans in conversations about well-being, access to care, and ending health-based discrimination.
2026 Course Corrections Summit
Course Corrections is Mental Health Colorado’s initiative to disentangle mental health and criminal justice. The 2026 Course Corrections Summit convenes advocates, policymakers, and community leaders to advance solutions that reduce reliance on the criminal justice system and expand access to health care.
43rd Annual Tribute Fundraising Gala 2026
The 43rd Annual Tribute Fundraising Gala is Mental Health Colorado’s premier celebration and largest fundraising event of the year, honoring individuals and organizations driving progress toward a healthier state.
2026 Colorado Gives Day Campaign
Colorado Gives Day is a statewide movement to support Colorado nonprofits and a vital opportunity for Mental Health Colorado to raise funds and awareness for advocacy and education.
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Stories of Hope & Recovery
Grieving a Living Child: My Life as an Alienated Father
My brother-in-law Larry
Fighting for my son
I deserve happiness
From Hopkins to homeless
Surviving my son’s mental illness
Psychological care for cancer patients
My long road to recovery
I never give up
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