"Colorado is pursuing reforms that will provide accessible and cost-effective health care to its residents. To assist with these objectives, the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC) and the Colorado Association of Alcohol and Drug Services Providers (CAADSP) is proposing a behavioral health (BH) model to help guide further discussion with the Colorado Legislature, Governor, health…

Arnold Salazar, Executive Director of Colorado Health Partnerships, LLC, has been appointed to the  Centennial Care Choices Program Panel.  In the 2008 Legislative Session, Senate Bill 217 created the Centennial Care Choices Program to reform Colorado’s health care system.  This Governor-appointed Panel will work with individuals from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the…

The Excellence in Community Collaboration award recognizes an organization, or group of organizations, that use the power of partnerships to solve community problems. Integrated Managed Partnership for Adolescent and Child Community Treatment (IMPACT) Program, Mental Health Center Serving Boulder and Broomfield CountiesThe IMPACT Program is a Boulder, Colorado community collaboration designed to reduce the out…

After 32 years in the mental health field and 27 with West Central Mental Health, Dan Cushman retires.

After 26-years of service as executive director for Colorado West Regional Mental Health, Doctor Ken Stein is retired.

State Medicaid agencies are playing an increasing role in funding, managing, and monitoring public mental health services in States, reflecting the steady growth over the last three decades in the share of public mental health services funded by Medicaid. Yet relatively little is known on a State-by-State basis about how Medicaid agencies are exercising their…

Colorado’s teens top the nation in depression, and its young people drink, smoke and use dangerous drugs more often than their counterparts in most other states, a federal study shows. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration report is based on responses by 136,000 people to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.…

Several CBHC staff and member representatives were fortunate to attend a screening of the film Canvas at the Carriage House of the Governor’s Mansion on February 12, 2008.  The film, written and directed by Joseph Greco, tells the story of how a family and community are touched by the mental illness of  a mother diagnosed…

Looking Forward is written by a team of eight analysts from the Bell Policy Center, Colorado Children’s Campaign and Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute. They focused on the six-year study period of FY 2007-08 through FY 2012-13 — the last three years of the Referendum C time-out and the first three years of the new Ref…