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ROMANOFF: COMMON GROUND ON MENTAL HEALTH IS POSSIBLE
The Greeley TribuneAndrew Romanoff
Guest columnist
Put six Republicans and three Democrats on the same stage and you might not expect them to agree on anything. When it comes to improving mental health care, however, you can find common ground.
Nine candidates shared a stage this past week at Mental Health Colorado's first gubernatorial forum. The consensus: We ought to make it harder for people who pose a danger to themselves or others to get guns, and easier for them to get treatment.
Those are two of the top priorities we're ...
CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR WEIGH IN ON HOT BUTTON ISSUES IN “THE STATE OF MENTAL HEALTH” FORUM
DENVER – The candidates for governor stepped up and addressed some tough mental health policy issues at Mental Health Colorado’s gubernatorial forum on Friday, March 23.
Four hundred people and nine candidates attended the event. The candidates included: Stephen Barlock (R), Cynthia Coffman (R), Lew Gaiter (R), Mike Johnston (D), Greg Lopez (R), Donna Lynne (D), Vic Mitchell (R), Doug Robinson (R), and Erik Underwood (D).
Former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy (D) was slated to attend but was sick. And U.S. Congressman Jared Polis (D) was stuck in ...
NONPROFIT PUSHES FOR BILLS STRENGTHENING MENTAL HEALTH IMPROVEMENTS
With just weeks left for state lawmakers to pass any new laws, Mental Health Colorado has two proposals they want considered.
Story first appeared on Denver7.
COMMUNITY GROUPS, SCHOOLS MEET TO STRENGTHEN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
By: Tris DeRoma — The Los Alamos Monitor Online
Many of Los Alamos County’s leading nonprofits and organizations, including United Way of Northern New Mexico, Self Help Inc, the Los Alamos Public Schools and others spent time last week seeking ways to build a stronger network of behavioral health services in Los Alamos County.
The group listened to a presentation March 15 given by a special guest speaker from Colorado who formed a mental health advocacy organization.
The next morning, the group held a roundtable discussion about how they as a group could ...
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES TALK MENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANCE USE AT BIPARTISAN FORUM
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By: Ernest Luning — Colorado Politics
DENVER — A stage full of gubernatorial candidates agreed on the importance of addressing issues surrounding mental health and substance abuse, but some differed sharply on their approaches at a bipartisan forum devoted to the topics on Friday in Denver.“This issue is literally a matter of life and death,” said Andrew Romanoff, president of Mental Health Colorado, the forum’s sponsor. “We have a lot of work to do. I hope the pace of our work matches the urgency of this missio...
MENTAL HEALTH FORUM TO POSE QUESTIONS TO COLORADO’S CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
By: Alan Gionet, CBS4
DENVER – Ask on the streets of Denver and you’ll find people are worried about mental health and the people with problems.
“I think that we need to figure out how we can get these people help,” said one person downtown.
Gary Peters volunteers to help the homeless at a coffee house on Friday nights. Not long ago, a man was outside attacking people and property with rocks.
“Where is the money going to come from? Where are you going to put them?”
Gary himself is homeless and lives in a city park where he says ...
SOLUTIONS TO GUN VIOLENCE EXPLORED AT CHURCH FORUM
By: Alex DeWind
Jane Dougherty's sister, a school psychologist, was one of 26 people killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut. On March 18, Doughtery, a Littleton resident, stood in a room of roughly 200 people and pleaded for Douglas County leaders to take action on gun violence.
“What we have become is a reactive society,” said Doughtery. “If we just keep arguing that someone has the right to bear arms, more people are going to die.”
Contemporary Issues, an adult Sunday school class at St. ...
AT FRIENDLY HARBOR, PEER MENTORS ARE KEY TO MENTAL HEALTH
Jamie Siebrase, Westword–
The devil had taken over his grandmother’s body, pulling out her soul. Thinking he was Jesus, Joe Bowers decided to put an end to the battle of good versus evil.
He waited for his grandmother, the woman who’d raised him, to go to bed. “I gave her time, and then I went to the kitchen cabinet, took out a 16 gauge shotgun, loaded it and walked upstairs,” Bowers recalls. His grandmother’s bedroom was at the top of the stairway. The door was cracked open, and as Bowers reached the landing, he saw his grandmother kneeling by her ...
‘WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER’: COLORADANS GATHER TO TALK GUNS, MENTAL HEALTH
Michael Abeyta, CBS4 –
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. – On Sunday morning in Fellowship Hall at St. Andrews United Methodist Church a crowd gathered, but not for worship.
This crowd was there to talk about mental health and gun control.
“There are some proposals that we can pass and should to reduce the risk of violence, to increase the supply of mental health care to prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands,” Mental Health Colorado spokesman Andrew Romanoff said.
“I want to stop the wrong people from getting weapons, but what we don’t want ...
MENTAL HEALTH COLORADO TAKING QUESTIONS FOR STATE OF MENTAL HEALTH GUBERNATORIAL FORUM
By: Trevor Reid, Greeley Tribune --
Mental Health Colorado will hold its first forum on mental health and substance use disorders with Colorado's gubernatorial candidates Friday in Denver.
The organization encourages anyone with questions for the candidates to email deargovernor@mentalhealthcolorado.org. Questions will be accepted until Monday.
Candidates will answer questions from students, Mental Health Colorado staff and event attendees. Andrew Romanoff, CEO and president of Mental Health Colorado, said they hope youth, in particular, will send their questions as a ...
