Jennifer Brown

Mind Springs Health, which provides mental health services and has a psychiatric hospital in Grand Junction, remains on a corrective action plan

Bureau of Land Management officials say the outbreak is winding down after two and a half weeks

A handful of child placement agencies and a county child welfare program are standouts in seeking same-sex couples and LGBTQ-affirming foster homes.

Both sides predict more intensity in Colorado if states in the South and Midwest outlaw abortion

National mustang advocates are demanding an investigation into the horses’ lack of vaccination. More than one-quarter of West Douglas herd has died.

Elder abuse prevention advocates are cheering the conviction of a Colorado Springs conservator accused of stealing from her wards. And lawmakers hear emotional testimony from loved ones with guardians.

The federal Bureau of Land Management says many of the horses are from the West Douglas range, in Rio Blanco County.

Hours-long, passionate hearing centered on why the state would repurpose the campus for homeless adults instead of youth in mental health crisis.

Two bills with bipartisan support would help therapists in private practice who are fed up with the convoluted Medicaid payment system. They follow investigative reporting by The Sun and Colorado News Collaborative.

Patients who never found success with antidepressants are feeling their depression lift thanks to ketamine treatments at a new Mental Health Center of Denver program.

A task force included in the bill would be named after a 12-year-old boy who ran away from a Denver residential center and was struck and killed by an SUV.

The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee voted 4-2 to expand the pilot program beyond Denver despite a House vote to stop it.

Huge health systems have added dozens of mental health professionals to primary care clinics in the past few years, helping doctors treat the “whole person.”

Lawmakers who want to stop the program’s expansion are concerned about deaths of 14 wards in two years and a lack of oversight.

The state health department’s latest report on the law shows the median time between prescription and death was 18 days. A CU Anschutz study, meanwhile, finds many doctors are still leery.

The discovery of falsified reports alarmed state officials, who sent 15 caseworkers to Craig in 2020 to re-investigate 80 abuse and neglect cases.

Supporters say it’ll end a monopoly and a funding stream that’s less than transparent. Community mental health centers say it will result in fewer services amid a mental health crisis.

Dr. Morgan Medlock was most recently in charge of crisis services for the Department of Behavioral Health in Washington, D.C.

The rancher will be reimbursed for the loss of the pregnant cow. Meanwhile, six protective burros were delivered to a nearby ranch that lost three cows to wolves earlier this winter.

The mostly white sport is looking for new recruits, and young offenders are looking for better ways to learn how to communicate with each other