This week’s CBHC Bill Tracking Slate is now available.  Links to the full text of each bill CBHC is tracking, as well as summaries, notes and all CBHC positions, are included.  Also, our weekly Legislative Update provides highlights for behavioral health issues at the State Legislature. 

This week’s CBHC Bill Tracking Slate is now available.  Links to the full text of each bill CBHC is tracking, as well as summaries, notes and all CBHC positions, are included.  Also, our weekly Legislative Update provides highlights for behavioral health issues at the State Legislature. 

Click here to see the CBHC Bill Tracking Slate

Click here to see who won from Colorado! 

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. 

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. 

Senior Reach, the collaborative program with Jefferson Center for Mental Health, Seniors’ Resource Center, and The Mental Health Center Serving Boulder and Broomfield Counties, is a finalist in the Ashokas Changemakers and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations "Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing" international competition…this program is one of 12 finalists IN THE WORLD!!! 
 
Please take a minute and lend your support for Senior Reach to win this competition by voting online. Voting closes December 9. 

Click here to vote!

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing is now posting the new Preferred Drug List (PDL) that becomes effective July 1, 2009.  This PDL applies to Medicaid fee-for-service clients.  It does not apply to clients enrolled in Rocky Mountain Health HMO or Denver Health Medicaid Choice. 

To view the new PDL, CLICK HERE.

"About half of all mental illnesses arise by age 14. A new guideline asks pediatricians to be on alert." 

This article from the U.S. News and World Report, by Lindsay Lyon, draws further attention to a newly highlighted importance on screening youths between 12 and 18 for signs of mental illness, after increasing evidence demonstrates the utility in doing so. 

Click here to read the entire article and learn more about teen depression.

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare recently published a detailed paper addressing the relationship between mental and physical healthcare and the importance of integration of these two systems. 

Click here to read this publication

This paper is also available in the CBHC Online Library. under the Healthcare Integration/Coordination link.