Toolkits to Promote Cultural Proficiency is a training program designed to increase the cultural proficiency of health care providers.  We are funded to develop and implemement this training over the next two years with a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of Health Disparities. The training program entails two courses: …

After learning that they were $17 million over budget for FY 07/08, the JBC voted unanimously to cut provider rates from 2% to 1.5%.  This is an overall loss of $179,448 total for all of the mental health contracts.