Click here to see who won from Colorado! 

“Today, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor released an interim final rule (IFR) providing guidance on how the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act must be implemented.” -NCCBH

 The National Council  for Community Behavioral Health has issued a summary of the interim final rule that can be accessed on the Legislative/Public Policy page of the website. 

Click Here to See the Summary and Full Language of the Rule. 

CBHC has begun to track various pieces of legislation introduced to the 2010 Colorado General Assembly.  The CBHC Bill Tracking Slate provides hyperlinks to the full text of the bills we are tracking, the sponsors of the legislation, and status updates.  This slate will be updated on a weekly basis.

Click here to see the 2010 CBHC Bill Tracking Slate

West Central Mental Health Center was selected as the 2009 Winner of the CBHC Golden Light Bulb Award for Excellence in the Clinical Arena at this fall’s CBHC Annual Training Conference in Breckenridge, Colorado. 

Click here to read an article in the Daily Recorder and to learn more about their Parnters in Care Program. 

This article by Benedict Carey in the New York Times presents recent findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association discussing the effects of some widely prescribed anti-depression drugs.  The study found that the effect of these drugs on mild to moderate depression may only be as effective as placebo pills.

Click here to read about the implications of the study.   

This article in the Cortez Journal by Steve Grazier gives details about the exciting new heathcare integration effort taking place in southwest Colorado.  Primary care and behavioral health services will be provided at this new care facility located in Cortez, Colorado and operated by the Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center.

Click here to learn more about integrated healthcare in Cortez.   

The Colorado Center for Systems Integration (CSI) puts together a monthly newsletter providing updates for kid’s behavioral health news from a rich variety of sources.  This month’s updates come from:

• Building Bridges for Children’s Mental Health
• Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
• Colorado System of Care Collaborative
• Colorado Youth Development Team

Click here to read the updates and to sign up to directly receive LINKING YOU monthly newsletters.