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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 ...
KOA Radio: Andrew Romanoff on the Senate Health Care Bill
Listen to Andrew Romanoff discuss the impact of the Senate's health care bill on mental health with KOA Radio.
GOP health-care bill is bad medicine for mental health
Let's say your state faces an opioid epidemic. And a shortage of psychiatric care. And one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
Let's say you live in Colorado.
If you're an optimist, you might turn to Congress for help. At the very least, you'd expect your representatives and senators not to make matters worse.
Unfortunately, the Senate Republicans' new health-care plan would do real harm to Colorado and to the rest of the country. Since the Senate may vote on this proposal before the end of the week, it's important to speak out right now.
In the Senate, ...
Helping men take care of their mental health
Andrew Romanoff, President of Mental Health Colorado, stopped by 9NEWS on Father's Day to talk about men's mental health and how to take care of the men in our lives by taking care of their feelings.
Vail Daily editorial: Congressman’s shooting raises difficult questions
By now, anyone interested in the topic has seen, heard and read plenty of news and opinion about Wednesday's shooting of U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and four other people by a gunman who was then fatally shot by police.
As this is written, the news and opinion are falling into depressingly predictable patterns. Since the gunman — who won't get the pleasure here of posthumous glory through identification — was named, those interested have already learned about his politics, previous arrests and so on.
Political opinions will run along a similar, ...
Summit Daily editorial: State has far to go in addressing mental health crisis
Colorado's county jails have become the last resort for our broken mental health system.
Getting a psychiatric bed for a person in crisis can be a time-consuming challenge that frequently falls to law officers. Consequently, patients deemed a risk to themselves or others often wind up isolated inside a stripped-down cell designed to prevent suicide. That's regardless of whether they've been charged with a crime or not.
Here in Summit County, the average number of hours people spend in mental health jail holds has risen from 44 hours in 2014 to 651 last year, a 1,365 ...
