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Colorado Springs teen suicides highlight gap in mental health services

By MEGAN SCHRADER | mschrader@denverpost.com Colorado Springs is in the midst of a teen suicide cluster. That should be more than enough to scare adults into action to improve adolescent mental health care in Colorado — and there is much room for improvement. First The Gazette and then Newsweek identified the trend of teens taking their own lives in a horrifying contagion of death that has left 29 kids dead in two years, many from the same few schools. No one is certain what exactly drives rashes of suicides like this, but one thing is certain — data shows that children and adults are much less likely to attempt suicide if they have ...

Spreading awareness at the 2016 Tribute Gala with Mental Health Colorado

We had a fantastic time at the 2016 Tribute Gala, Unmasked!! Mental Health Colorado did an incredible job bringing together so many professionals, advocates and organizations to spread awareness of the many issues still surrounding mental health care. We heard some awe-inspiring stories shared and tears were shed.  Silent and live auctions took place with incredible items to bid on! Read more...

Smokescreen

When you make a living -- or, I should say, a killing -- hooking kids on a lethal product, you can’t get too attached to the truth. Take the tobacco industry, please. No surprise here: the industry is fighting Amendment 72, a proposal to increase Colorado’s tobacco tax. And the industry’s arguments are about as accurate as the health claims it used to make. Opponents call Amendment 72 a “blank check” -- an attack that fact-checkers have exposed as misleading and false. As 9News and Fox 31 have noted, the measure spells out exactly where the revenue will go, including tobacco prevention and cessation programs, medical research, ...

Unmasked: Tribute 2016 Thank You

It takes teamwork to pull off an event with over 500 people attending, and that’s exactly what it took for Tribute 2016. Everyone played a role in making Tribute a success, from all of us on staff to our boards, co-chairs, and volunteers. The list is long and we can’t thank people enough for sharing their stories and their support. Their contributions filled the night with special moments: Thank you to Bianca Mikahn, Kasey Sparacio, and Tony Fuller for sharing their very personal stories of ups and downs, unmasking mental illness. Thank you to the honorees – the Brighton Youth Commission, Barbara Mattison, and CHARG Resource Center ...

More college students going to mental health centers

DENVER -- College can be a stressful time. And now those stresses are sending more students to mental health centers than ever before. Hunter Long And Yazman Ezimi are music students. Their biggest source of stress centers around academics. "Homework," Long says. That's probably the biggest thing that causes stress." Another stressor is finding that school life balance. "We both have jobs and we both go to school full-time and we're trying to make a career," Ezimi says. " So it's really hard to balance all of that so that causes stress." The American College Health Association surveyed students in 2016. Forty-three percent of them said ...

Vote Yes on Amendment 72

My mother was a lifelong smoker. My sister and I used to hide her cigarettes, tossing cartons down the laundry chute or stuffing them in the trash. I’m proud of my mom for quitting, but I’ve known too many people who never could. Smoking is the number-one cause of preventable death in Colorado, killing more than 5,000 Coloradans each year. That’s more than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. The best ways to reduce the death toll from smoking are to stop people from starting and to help them quit. That’s exactly what Amendment 72 will do, by raising the price of cigarettes and investing the ...

CEO: Mental-health help starts with screenings

TELLURIDE DAILY PLANET By ANDRE SALVAIL, Editor When it comes to getting help for behavioral-health issues or depression, a screening is a good place to start. That was one of the primary messages that Andrew Romanoff, president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado, brought to Telluride last week. Romanoff was the keynote speaker of Thursday’s Behavioral Health Summit 2016 held at the Peaks Resort & Spa in Mountain Village. On Wednesday, he kicked off a Behavioral Health Community Forum at Telluride Middle/High School’s black box theater. The events grew out of a need for more information on mental health issues and assistan...

KOTO Community Radio on Telluride behavioral health community forum

Telluride's KOTO Community Radio reports on the 2016 Behavioral Health Summit. Andrew Romanoff, president & CEO of Mental Health Colorado, was the summit's keynote speaker and kicked off a community behavioral health forum on Wednesday evening. Listen to hear excerpts from his presentation.

2016 Mental Health Candidate Forum in Colorado Springs

How do we make sure that all Coloradans get the mental health care they need? That’s the mission of our organization — and the focus of our first-ever candidate nights. Mental Health Colorado is teaming up with NAMI Colorado, Colorado Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses, the Colorado Providers Association, the Colorado Psychiatric Society, the Colorado Psychological Society, and Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners to host a series of public forums, featuring candidates for the state legislature. Meet Colorado Springs candidates Sharon Huff (HD 15), Thomas Exum (HD 17), Kit Roupe (HD 17), Pete Lee (HD 18), Tom Reynolds (HD 19), and Michael ...

2016 Mental Health Candidate Forum in Denver

How do we make sure that all Coloradans get the mental health care they need? That’s the mission of our organization — and the focus of our first-ever candidate nights. Mental Health Colorado is teaming up with NAMI Colorado, Colorado Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses, the Colorado Providers Association, the Colorado Psychiatric Society, the Colorado Psychological Society, and Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners to host a series of public forums, featuring candidates for the state legislature. Meet Denver candidates Paul Linton (HD 2), Leslie Herod (HD 8), Lois Court (SD 31), Bob Lane (SD 31), and Raymon Doane (SD 33) and hear about ...