Colorado began funding co-responder efforts in 2018 and now backs 31 such initiatives. An additional 20 or so programs exist across the state that send mental health clinicians out with law enforcement.
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El sistema de salud mental en Colorado está mal preparado para apoyar a niños adoptados con traumas severos
La razón principal por la cual las adopciones de niños en custodia temporal en Colorado fracasan es por un “problema con el comportamiento del niño”. ¿Cómo tratamos el trastorno de apego reactivo o la pérdida relacionada con la adopción?
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Colorado solo financia una agencia para que ayude a familias y niños adoptados con pasados traumáticos. Y su presupuesto acaba de recortarse.
De todas las familias que han recibido asesoría informada por el trauma a través de Raise de Future, ninguna ha reportado una adopción interrumpida, según la agencia y el estado.
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Teens with addiction are often left to detox without medication. Denver Health is trying to change that.
Denver’s public safety net hospital has opened what is believed to be the first adolescent inpatient detox unit.
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Not all 988 mental health crisis calls are reaching Colorado, but they’re still getting answered
The national three-digit crisis hotline is dealing with an area code routing issue and other challenges a year after launch
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Hundreds languish in jails as Colorado’s state-run mental health hospitals can’t find enough nurses
The state is offering $14,000 signing bonuses and $5,000 retention bonuses in its quest to hire 260 nurses in Pueblo and Fort Logan
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A new family therapy program in Colorado will meet you wherever you are — even if that’s Costco
An in-home mental health program for kids that began in January has served 200 people in 20 Colorado counties and has plans to expand
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Colorado to get more mental health bed options, new hospital amid “near crisis”
A new 144-bed behavioral health hospital is coming to Westminster and dozens of state grants aim to boost capacity for mental health
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Colorado kids, teens who visit emergency rooms in mental health crisis can now get free therapy
The Follow-Up Project, which has suicide hotline staff call people who’ve been discharged from a hospital, is now offering free therapy through the nonprofit Second Wind Fund