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How do we preserve mental health care as an essential benefit?
By Andrew Romanoff, Guest Commentary
What can we agree on?
That’s a question worth asking, as a new herd of lawmakers gathers in Denver and Washington. Last year’s elections probably convinced many Americans that the answer is “almost nothing at all.”
Not so fast.
While the presidential race proved to be one of the most divisive in recent memory, a few signs of consensus emerged in Colorado. The subject: mental health.
In August, our nonpartisan organization asked every candidate for the Colorado General Assembly where they stood on the prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. Nearly 50 percent of ...
Lights! Camera! Legislation!
What happens when you put 100 people in one building for 120 days?
We’re about to find out. The General Assembly began its work on Wednesday, January 11th, swearing in a new cast of state lawmakers.
Who are they? How will they vote? And what can you do, as a constituent, to influence their decisions?
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 2 for Mental Health Colorado’s Hill Day. We’ll start the morning with a dynamic round of advocacy training, then walk over to the State Capitol to meet our representatives and senators.
You’ll learn about some of the most important issues in this year’s legislative session -- and how can you make a differe...
Colorado must stop using jails for people in mental health crisis, panel says
By JENNIFER BROWN | jbrown@denverpost.com
PUBLISHED: January 4, 2017 at 5:20 pm | UPDATED: January 5, 2017 at 1:00 am
Colorado should stop using jails to house people placed on involuntary mental health holds who haven’t been charged with a crime, says a task force created by Gov. John Hickenlooper.
The state is one of only six that still put people having a mental health episode behind bars.
The 30-member panel, ordered by Hickenlooper after he vetoed a bill in June that would have strengthened Colorado’s 72-hour mental health hold law, acknowledged rural communities without hospitals or mental health centers would have the ...
Replacing the Affordable Care Act
Trust us.
That’s what some members of Congress are telling their constituents -- by vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a plan to replace it. We’d rather not.
This week Mental Health Colorado joined a coalition of more than 100 organizations across the state in an urgent plea to our Congressional delegation: craft a new plan first. Repealing the current law and postponing its replacement would only create, in the coalition’s words, “uncertainty and chaos.”
Where do you stand? Contact your representative and senators to let them know.
At Mental Health Colorado, we share an interest in expanding access, improving ...
Mental health group looks to solve issues
By Crystal Nelson
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 3:29 pm
Officials at Mental Health Colorado came to Brighton on Wednesday, Dec. 7, to find out what residents here need in terms of mental health programs.
The state nonprofit group found that area residents want more access to mental health care and lower insurance deductibles for care. The group held meetings throughout the state in recent weeks, hearing from residents in Fort Collins and Grand Junction, Pueblo and Aurora, among others.
“Most of the folks who join our conversation are not satisfied with their access to mental health care for a number of reasons, including the cost ...
Denver deputy accused of telling mentally ill inmate to ‘just die’ has suspension overturned
By: Jennifer Kovaleski, Blair Miller
DENVER – A Denver sheriff’s deputy suspended for allegedly telling a mentally ill inmate on suicide watch to “just die” had his suspension overturned Friday by the Denver Career Service Board.
The mentally ill inmate was being housed in a special suicide cell that is designed to prevent suicide.
Read the hearing officer's judgment in full by clicking here.
Denver Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Bosveld had been suspended for 10 days for neglect of duty and failure to observe written departmental or agency regulations. He served his suspension beginning Sept. 21.
THE ORIGINAL INCIDENT THAT LED TO ...
Colorado Gives Day Thank You
We want to thank all of our supporters for your donations on Colorado Gives Day. You were a part of raising more than $25,000 for Mental Health Colorado.
This money helps us help the more than one million Coloradans who experience a mental health or substance use disorder each year. We want all Coloradans to have access to good mental health care.
ColoradoGives.org is a year-round, online giving website featuring more than 1,800 nonprofits, including Mental Health Colorado.
Enjoy the holidays, focus on what really matters
We all know the drill. The anticipation, the excitement and the stress of the holidays.
It’s all about one big, happy family, obligations and events to attend, and finding one more present to make everything perfect. Right?! Wrong.
Elizabeth Nelson, a Psychologist with the Colorado Center for Clinical Excellence, says stress is normal over the holidays. It’s how you handle it that makes all the difference.
“The more you buy into the ‘perfect family, perfect holiday’ the more it clouds out your ability to do the things that would help you cope,” says Nelson.
She says you don’t have to make every dish, go to every event and ...
Mental health advocates want to hear concerns about the system
DENVER -- Andrew Romanoff knows intimately how a family can be blind-sided by the consequences of mental health concerns that go undiagnosed and untreated.
He lost a close cousin to suicide and turned his grief into a passion for changing the way Colorado thinks about, treats and funds mental health.
"It's a real crisis in our state," Romanoff said.
He is in the middle of a listening tour across the state, hearing concerns from people in rural and urban cities about mental health.
The Mental Health Colorado nonprofit estimates 1 in 4 Coloradans will experience a mental health issue or substance disorder each year.
The website states ...
