Click here to read the latest CBHC Behavioral Healthcare Update released February 9, 2009! 

This Press Release from the Office of Colorado First Lady Jeannie Ritter, applaudes the efforts of Colorado Community Mental Health Centers and commends the award winners at the 2008 CBHC Annual Training Conference.  Click  to read the release titled, Colorado’s Mental Health System Honors Innovation, Commitment

Don’t miss Raising Spirits, Wine Tasting and Auction  to support mental health and substance abuse treatment services for unisured and underinsured individuals. CLICK ON THE PICTURE FOR MORE INFORMATION!!!  

Important updates have been made to the 2008 CBHC Conference Program.  Make sure to check them out so you don’t miss out on anything! Conference Updates

The Division of Behavioral Health, The Office of Behavioral Health and Housing, and the Colorado Department of Human Services released the program report for the Early Childhood Specialist Program.  Through this program, each of Colorado’s 17 publicly funded mental health centers received funding to hire a full time early childhood mental health specialist. Click here to read…

On Friday, July 25, the Colorado Public Radio show, Colorado Matters, aired a piece discussing how area counties are working to reduce the amount of mentally ill individuals in the jail system.  " A Metro Denver Task Force finds reducing the numbers of mentally ill in jail could cut the jail population in half – and save money. Host…

CBHC Director of Public Policy, Doyle Forrestal, was recently interviewed on Colorado Matters radio program.  Visit our Media Releases Section.

An article from the Loveland Reporter-Herald describing the merger of the Island Grove Regional Treatment Center services in Larimer County with Larimer Center for Mental Health and the Island Grove Treatment Center Services in Weld County North Range Behavioral Health.  Read the article here.

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…