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Colorado DHS agrees to Pueblo meeting about CMHIP
From the FULL COVERAGE: CMHIP in crisis series
BY PETER ROPER THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN PROPER@CHIEFTAIN.COM
Top state officials responsible for the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo will have a town hall meeting in Pueblo next month to discuss the chronic staffing problems at the hospital.
Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne and state Rep. Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, said they had each gotten the commitment for an October meeting from Reggie Bicha, director of the Colorado Department of Human Services.
Bicha and other DHS administrators had a series of public meetings around ...
Mental Health Colorado addresses crisis at mental hospital, state needs
BY NAT STEIN
The Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo (CMHIP) treats pretty challenging patients — some referred from community health centers and some referred from the court system (if they're found "not guilty by reason of insanity" or their competency to stand trial is questioned, as in the case of Robert Dear Jr., the admitted Planned Parenthood shooter, who's currently committed to CMHIP). But the 449-bed, state-run hospital needs some help of its own.
The Pueblo Chieftain's Peter Roper has been following this protracted story that took a dire turn ...
Nonprofit addresses mental health workforce shortage
By Adam Uhernik
PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - The nonprofit Mental Health Colorado recently brought health care leaders around one table in Pueblo to brainstorm ideas on how to close the mental health workforce shortage and gap.
"There aren't enough people going into the field of providing mental healthcare and there is not enough people staying in that field. We are trying to find out how to close that gap," said president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado, Andrew Romanoff.
The issue came to the public's attention during the summer when the State Hospital in ...
Mental Health Colorado offers help for kids and teens going back to school
COLORADO SPRINGS - by Bill Fulsom
Along with new clothes and supplies there is a suggestion for parents to pay attention to their kids mental health as they head back to school. The non-profit group Mental Health Colorado is offering some on-line help. Through MentalHealthColorado.org there are a few tools for parents to check on their kids mental wellness.
There is a section called screening. Within the category there is a list of numerous potential mental illness issues. Each one links to a short doctor approved screening test. It is not a diagnosis but it may ...
Opioid treatment funding
Mental Health Colorado's President and CEO Andrew Romanoff talks about federal funding and the opioid crisis with 9News.
Mental Health Colorado hiring regional coordinators across state
POSTED BY J. ADRIAN STANLEY
A leading mental health advocacy group plans to hire “regional coordinators” across the state to help identify and address issues on a local level. And the first coordinator being hired is a half-time position for the Pikes Peak Region.
Andrew Romanoff, president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado, a nonprofit advocacy group that’s a branch of Mental Health America, spoke to the Independent about the new program during a visit to the Springs. He said the new coordinator will focus on understanding barriers to mental health care, ...
Mental Health Colorado adds coordinator in Pikes Peak Region
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) -- We know that teen suicide is a public health emergency in our community. Now one non-profit group is working to put a coordinator in the Pikes Peak region to help combat the problem.
Katie Pelton sits down with Mental Health Colorado President & CEO Andrew Romanoff.
Mental Health Colorado is adding a coordinator to cover El Paso and Teller counties. They will live here and work here, learning what the real issues are that face our community.
Colorado has one of the highest suicide rates in the country. The group wants ...
Five years after the Aurora theater shooting, what’s the status of mental health care?
DENVER -- It's an outcome of the Aurora Theater Shooting we don't talk about a lot.
What happened that July night changed lives forever, but it also forever changed how Colorado helps those dealing with mental health crises.
Following the mass shooting that took the lives of 12 innocent victims, lawmakers passed a bill to fund a statewide mental health crisis response system.
It created a 24/7 hotline, a mobile crisis team, eleven 24-hour walk in care centers, and short-term respite care to help those in crisis.
Five years later, Denver7 looks at ...
KOSI Radio interviews Andrew Romanoff with Mental Health Colorado
Listen as Adam Morgan speaks with Andrew Romanoff, the President & CEO of Mental Health Colorado, and Jen Marnowski, Director of Communications, about mental wellness.
Viral tweet sheds new light on mental health
BY DREW ENGELBART, Fox 31 Denver
A Michigan woman’s Twitter post has gone viral and shed a new light on mental health. The post is an email from the woman to her coworkers explaining that she is taking a couple “mental health days” off work, followed by a positive response from the company’s CEO.
“Every year a million Coloradans experience mental health disorder and only half of them get care,” Mental Health Colorado’s President & CEO Andrew Romanoff said.
The organization, Mental Health Colorado, is deeply concerned by that statistic and ...
