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SUE KLEBOLD TALKS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
By Justin Criado
Oct 19, 2018
Sue Klebold, mother of Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold, said there were no signs that her youngest son was planning what eventually transpired on April 20, 1999, before taking his own life.
“From what I could see, he was doing OK,” she said.
She explained how a month before the incident, Dylan visited the University of Arizona, the school he planned to attend, with his family and was excited to get the largest freshman dorm room possible. Three nights ...
NEW MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE AIMS TO COMBAT TEEN SUICIDE
By: Caiti Blase
October 19, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS – This week Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman announced that nearly $3 million will go towards improving youth mental health across the state.
Andrew Romanoff, president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado, said the initiative is a partnership between Children’s Hospital of Colorado and his organization.
He said the state needs more specialists in pediatric mental health which is one of the things the hospital will address with the $2 million it will receive.
The remaining $800,000 will be ...
NON-PROFIT GETS MAJOR FUNDING FOR MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES IN SCHOOLS
By: Katie Pelton
October 19, 2018
Credit: MGN
DENVER (KKTV) -- A non-profit is getting major funding to help put more mental health resources in our schools. The group 'Mental Health Colorado' was awarded $800,000 from the attorney general's office.
“Attorney General Cynthia Coffman this week announced a $2.8 million initiative to improve children’s mental health. It’s a partnership between Mental Health Colorado, our organization, and Children’s Hospital Colorado," said Andrew Romanoff, the President and CEO of Mental Health Colorado...
Unmasked: A Masquerade Party
October 21, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRLsLn8J5sY&t=23s
Join the City of Castle Pines for a masquerade party benefitting Mental Health Colorado. Tickets are still available.
COLORADO IS TRYING TO MAKE A DENT IN YOUTH SUICIDE RATES
By: Ali Budner
October 19, 2018
Our region has an especially high rate of suicide. Now Colorado is taking a unique approach to deal with it, at least for kids. Attorney General, Cynthia Coffman, just allocated $2.8 millionfor a state-wide pediatric mental health initiative.
Andrew Romanoff, who leads Mental Health Colorado, said this is very important for the state’s youth right now.
“We know that in most cases the first signs of mental illness occur during adolescence,” he said. “But we also know there is a gap of 8-10 ...
NEW FUNDING TO HELP SUPPORT YOUTH WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
October 16, 2018
By: Jeff Todd
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Nearly $3 million is jump-starting a shift in how mental health services are administered to Colorado’s youth.
(credit: CBS)
“I had to prove how sick I was in order to get the care I needed,” said Cora Galpern who has gone from patient to advocate. “I struggled most severely with an eating disorder. I was also struggling with depression and anxiety.”
Galpern says the system right now is set up to triage and only treat ‘the sickest of the sick.’
(credit: CBS)
“If people ...
NEW YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE WILL PROMOTE STATEWIDE COLLABORATION TO PREVENT TEEN SUICIDE
By: Jennifer Brown
Oct. 16, 2018
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.”
Read the full story at the Colorado Sun.
SOME WELD CANDIDATES FOR STATE LEGISLATURE RESPOND TO MENTAL HEALTH COLORADO SURVEY, SOME DON’T
By: Terry Frei
October 13, 2018
DENVER — Andrew Romanoff, the former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, has a top-floor corner office in downtown Denver, three blocks from the Colorado State Capitol.
On a cloudless Friday morning, the view was potentially distracting as Romanoff — in his role as president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado — talked about the eight-question survey on mental health issues his organization sent to 179 candidates for the Colorado House and Senate. The answers of those who responded are posted on the Mental Health ...
ON YOUR BALLOT: $45M MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE IS NEEDED IN DENVER IN MIDST OF CRISIS, ADVOCATES SAY
By: Jackie Crea
October 15, 2018
DENVER — Denver voters will have a lot to consider when they fill out their ballots over the next few weeks, including spending millions of dollars to help those who need mental health care through proposed Ordinance 301 or Caring 4 Denver.
Emergency responders and law enforcement face a growing problem. Every year in the U.S., 35,000 people become disabled or a danger to themselves because of a severe mental health crisis, according to Andrew Romanoff, CEO of Mental Health Colorado. He is one of many advocates of the ballot ...
SUMMIT DAILY LETTERS: A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH ON THE BALLOT
By: Andrew Romanoff
October 12, 2018
Suppose you just landed on earth.
You go looking for the most beautiful place on the planet, so you come to Colorado. But amid the majesty of the mountains, you find people dying by suicide — more than 1,000 each year. Thousands more are sleeping on the streets or languishing in prison cells.
Here in Summit County, the suicide rate is three times the national average. Adults in the county have the highest rate of binge drinking in Colorado.
We can be shocked by these statistics or we can change them. The good news: Summit ...
