NEW YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE WILL PROMOTE STATEWIDE COLLABORATION TO PREVENT TEEN SUICIDE

A children’s mental health initiative announced Tuesday could transform how Colorado identifies and treats kids and teens with depression, anxiety or eating disorders at the doctor and in the classroom.

Attorney General Cynthia Coffman announced a $2.8 million grant to launch a collaboration between Children’s Hospital Colorado and Mental Health Colorado that state leaders called “transformational.”