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Hosting a Facebook Fundraiser for Mental Health Colorado
Thank you for signing up to do a Facebook fundraiser for Mental Health Colorado. This page includes all of the information you will need to launch a successful fundraising campaign, including:
Language you can use for creating your fundraiser and promoting on social media
Graphics you can use on social media
Step-by-step instructions for starting a campaign on Facebook
Language you can use for fundraising:
Mental health is more important than ever. That's why I'm asking you to donate to my fundraising campaign for Mental Health Colorado, the state’s ...
How to Invite Friends to Follow Mental Health Colorado
When you are logged into Facebook, go to Mental Health Colorado's Facebook page. From there, click the three dots on the right side of the page. Then you will be given the option to "Invite Friends." From there, you can select as many friends as you'd like to invite to follow Mental Health Colorado.
Monica Duran
I previously served on the Board of Directors for the Jefferson Center for Mental Health, where I was dedicated to serving all in need. Our mission was to improve the lives and to strengthen our communities by providing essential mental health needs, along with other related services for individuals and families on the road to support recovery. My work as a board member was to increase access to health care, meaningful employment, childcare, and education, so our vulnerable communities have the opportunity to thrive and be healthy. Healthy communities are fostered by ...
Amy Padden
It is far past time that we treat mental illness like a medical condition, which it is. We need to stop stigmatizing and criminalizing mental health issues. For far too long, we’ve been focused on punishing behavior rather than identifying causes and treating those in a sensible way.
One of my top priorities as the next District Attorney is to ensure that we have a robust diversion program, similar to the one that I set up and ran in another district. Rather than seeking prison sentences for non-violent felony cases, we took those who had been charged with those ...
Chris Kennedy
I believe our mental health infrastructure in Colorado needs to be dramatically improved. I've supported strengthening our mental health parity laws, requiring better insurance and Medicaid coverage of mental health care, integration of physical and behavioral health care systems, and better mental health care in our schools. As a member of the Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders Interim Study Committee for the last three summers, I've sponsored numerous bills to improve prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery systems, as well as addressing substance use ...
Beth McCann
As the Denver District Attorney, I see the intersection of mental health and criminal justice almost every day. We don't do a very good job of addressing those with mental health issues in our system. The jails have become warehouse for those with mental health issues. There are several things I have been doing and will continue to do if I am re-elected as Denver's District Attorney.
1) I meet monthly with my Mental Health Advisory Council to discuss these issues and educate myself about what is happening and where there are gaps
2) I support our robust co-responder ...
Julie McCluskie
State Representative Julie McCluskie
House District 61 - Delta, Gunnison, Lake, Pitkin and Summit Counties
Access to affordable primary, oral and behavioral/mental health care on the Western Slope has been a priority for me since elected in 2018. Given the high rate of suicide and substance abuse in Colorado’s high country, creating access to mental health services and reducing the stigma attached to mental illness are deeply important to me.
During my first session in office, I championed HB29-1168: The State Innovation Waiver Reinsurance Program which brought ...
Kerry Tipper
When I was elected in 2018, I wanted to ensure that every Coloradan had equitable and meaningful access to mental health care. That’s why I was proud to support bills like HB19-1269 (Mental Health Parity in Medicaid) and SB19-222 (Improving Access to Mental Health Services for Individuals at Risk of Institutionalization). Good mental health should not be treated as less important than good physical health, especially because the two are inseparable. You can’t have one without the other. I also believe investments in mental health are good fiscal policy. They result ...
Mike Weissman
Progress has been made in the last several decades to reduce the stigma of and increase access to treatment for mental health conditions, but we are still not at the level we should aspire to as one of the most prosperous nations in the world.
We have been actively addressing mental health issues at the state legislature for the last several years by: passing mental health parity legislation; increasing access to counseling for youth and funding school-based counselors; increasing access to mental health services for peace officers; and most recently allocating several ...
Edie Hooton
As long as I’ve been involved in civic matters, our mental health systems have generally been underfunded. I won’t say money is everything, but it has a strong correlation to staffing, services, and facilities - much of which is in short supply in underserved areas of Colorado. And with COVID-19 wreaking havoc on people and our economy, it seems as if demand for mental health services will only grow. I fully understand that access to mental health care is in the greatest interests of individuals, families, and society, and pledge to support legislation and budgetary ...
