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EMPLOYERS LOSE $200B PER YEAR FROM UNTREATED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
By: Phil Lindeman, Krystal 93
Nov. 13, 2018
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OPINION: VICTORIES FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN COLORADO
By Aubree Hughes
Ten Colorado counties are leading the way to improving mental health services in their communities. The counties and their mental health proposals are listed at mentalhealthcolorado.org/ballot2018.
Victories in Denver, Larimer, San Miguel, and Summit counties will steer a record $67 million to the prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. Voters also agreed to fund school-based mental health programs in Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties; jail-based services in Boulder County; and community resources in ...
TOO MANY VETERANS ARE SUFFERING; HERE’S WHAT WE’RE DOING
By: Leroy Garcia
Nov. 11, 2018
Not all wounds are visible. Too many veterans suffer in silence from mental wounds related to their military service.
Today, we celebrate the more than 400,000 veterans in Colorado and more than 20 million veterans across this county. I served in Iraq in the United States Marine Corps for more than six years, and ensuring that our veterans are taken care of is something I care about deeply.
The reality is that too many of our veterans, nearly 50 percent according a recent study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...
DPD’S CO-RESPONDER UNIT HOPES TO GET A BOOST FROM CARING 4 DENVER
By: Conor McCormick-Cavanaugh
Nov. 5, 2018
Tuesday, November 6, is fast approaching, and Denver residents are now voting on various state- and citywide ballot initiatives. One such initiative is Caring 4 Denver.
Created by Representative Leslie Herod and endorsed by influential Coloradans like Wilma Webb and Cynthia Coffman, the initiative would raise Denver's sales tax by .25 percent to bolster the city's mental health resources and substance abuse treatment programs. If the initiative passes, 10 percent of the revenue would be earmarked for the Crisis Interv...
HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
November 3, 2018
Andrew Romanoff from Mental Health Colorado joins us for a conversation on what needs to be done to increase the availability of mental health services in the state.
Originally appeared on 9News.
COLORADO VOTERS WILL SEE A RECORD NUMBER OF MENTAL HEALTH MEASURES ON THEIR BALLOT
By: John Daley, CPR News
Nov. 1, 2018
The 2018 ballot for many Coloradans will reflect the dire state of mental health, suicide and addiction in the state.
Voters across multiple counties will consider a dozen proposals to fund mental health services, a record number for the Colorado ballot.
“More and more communities recognize it is much cheaper, smarter and humane to prevent or treat issues of mental illness rather than to ignore it or criminalize it. We've learned that the hard way," Mental Health Colorado CEO and president Andrew Romanoff said.
In ...
AT LEAST 12 LOCAL BALLOT QUESTIONS SEEK FUNDING INCREASE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
By: Matt Bloom
Oct. 31, 2018
Voters across Colorado are deciding the fate of at least a dozen local ballot measures seeking funding for better mental health care services.
The questions range from tax increases to local budget shuffling — all aimed at building up prevention and treatment services in schools, jails and hospitals.
Andrew Romanoff is president of Mental Health Colorado. He spoke at a Fort Collins event in support of Larimer County’s sales tax question, Issue 1A, on Oct. 30. He says the topic is resonating for many people.
“I think ...
MENTAL HEALTH MEASURE GETS SUPPORT FROM FORMER LEGISLATOR
By: Paul Albani-BurgioReporter-Herald Staff Writer
October 24, 2018
Larimer County is once again deciding how to vote on a ballot issue that would raise taxes by 0.25 percent to provide mental health issue identification, support and treatment services to county residents.
On Wednesday, former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives Andrew Romanoff spoke to the members of the Loveland Lions Club about why he felt voters should support Ballot Issue 1A, the toll of mental health issues in Colorado and how local communities can ...
PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH GETS GRANT TO HELP KIDS’ MENTAL HEALTH
By: Faith Miller
October 24, 2019
Partners for Children’s Mental Health, a program out of Children’s Hospital Colorado, will get a $2.8 million grant from the state attorney general’s office to launch an initiative improving kids’ access to care.
Plans include assessing the state’s pediatric mental health needs, improving care for kids in rural areas, training pediatric physicians on mental health and implementing a School Mental Health Toolkit across Colorado school districts.
The toolkit, developed by nonprofit Mental Health Colorado, is a free ...
COLORADO LAUNCHING SUICIDE PREVENTION EFFORTS
By: Mary Shinn
October 21, 2018
New efforts to improve mental health care for children and teenagers across Colorado will be rolled out over the next two to three years.
The Colorado Attorney General’s Office is providing $2.8 million in grant funding to improve pediatric mental health care and support school-based mental health programming.
Suicide is the leading cause of death for those 10 to 24 in Colorado, and addressing the lack of mental health services in the state is “a matter of life or death,” said Andrew Romanoff, Men...
