News Clips
Building health resources for students and staff
September 30, 2019
Originally appeared on the Kaiser Permanente website
Kaiser Permanente event explores mental health needs and best practices in Colorado schools.
Mental health is a rapidly growing topic of conversation in Colorado with more than 1 million people — adults and children — living with depression or anxiety in the state. Encouraging strides are being made to break down stigma and provide more access to mental health resources but more can and must be done — especially for youth in Colorado who rank third-highest in the United States for mental ...
SPECIAL REPORT: A quarter of Colorado school districts lacking sufficient mental health care in El Paso County
By: Debbie Kelley and Burt Hubbard
September 28, 2019
Public school districts statewide and in the Pikes Peak region need to hire thousands of counselors and other mental health professionals to meet national staffing standards, according to a Gazette analysis of data from a 2019 Mental Health Colorado report.
Read the full The Gazette article.
Access to mental health, substance abuse treatment in Colorado getting worse, survey finds
By: Jakob Rodgers
September 25, 2019
Article originally appeared in The Gazette.
A mural on the side of the Cottonwood Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs a message focused on helping to eliminate the stigma around mental health.
Coloradans say it’s only getting harder to access mental health and substance abuse treatment due to stigma and the prohibitively high cost of therapy.
The number of Coloradans who went without needed mental health care in the previous year nearly doubled from 2017, ...
“A gradual better”: One student’s story of dealing with suicidal thoughts
September 25, 2019
Suicide rates in the US are on the rise – as o 2017 (the most recent data available), suicide is the second-leading cause of death in 15-to 34-year-olds.
Read the article in Campus Well.
A ‘PRESSING NEED’ SUNDAY EDITION | Kentucky grapples to close dangerous gap in mental health law
By: Jason Riley, Chad Mills and Marcus Green
September 22, 2019
Story originally appeared in WDRB.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WDRB) – It was an “Oh, my God!” moment for Kentucky state Sen. Danny Carroll. He said the revolving door of violent criminal cases involving 30-year-old Cane Madden is “the most blatant example” of a failure in the justice system he has ever seen.
Time after time, judges have dismissed Madden’s cases in Louisville and released him back into society under a state law that prosecutors say is their worst nightmare: Someone who is incompe...
Mental Health Colorado honors Vail Resorts
September 11, 2019
Broomfield-based company to receive Workplace Wellness Award for implementation of Epic Wellness program
Vail Resorts will be honored with the Workplace Wellness award during Mental Health Colorado's 2019 Tribute Gala on Sept. 28, according to a news release.
Each year, Mental Health Colorado honors a company or organization displaying creativity, ingenuity and significant achievements in promoting mental wellness and ending stigma in its communities.
Vail Resorts is being recognized for the successful implementation of its Epic Wellness program, ...
Without access to care, anxiety, depression, addiction stalk rural Coloradans | SPECIAL REPORT
by: Joey Bunch
September 1, 2019
Originally appeared in The Gazette.
This story is part of a yearlong series about Colorado’s broken mental health care system. Read more of the series here.
KIOWA COUNTY • Simply coping can be lonely, and here in southern Colorado, where the brown fields sweep to the blue horizon, struggles come on as slow as drought or with the sudden intensity of a dust devil.
There’s desperate isolation in a place where everybody knows everybody else’s business, says Laura Negley, a ...
Chuck and Julie with Sarah Davidon and Lisa Sabey
Listen to this episode of Chuck and Julie with Sarah Davidon & Lisa Sabey from the documentary "American Tragedy: Love Is Not Enough" featuring the story of Sue Klebold's journey to becoming a Mental Health Advocate, At-risk Children, Youth suicide, and much more!
Anschutz Medical Campus to screen documentary featuring Sue Klebold
Date: August 21, 2019
The screening of American Tragedy: Love is Not Enough, a new documentary that follows Sue Klebold’s journey from realizing her son was one of the Columbine Shooters to her becoming a mental health advocate will occur on August 30. The film includes suicide loss survivors’ stories and professionals all agreeing on a need for a major paradigm shift away from reliance on therapy for mental illnesses toward a more proactive, universal approach to mental wellness.
Indeed, as Klebold concludes, it was not love that was missing in her son’s ...
Colorado’s trailblazing Safe2Tell system needs significant upgrades, lawmakers say
By: John Frank
August 20, 2019
Two decades ago, in the wake of the Columbine school shooting, Colorado officials created the Safe2Tell anonymous tip line to help prevent more school massacres.
To read the full story, visit The Colorado Sun.
