A New Chapter for Colorado’s Behavioral Health Safety Net

Today, the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC) is proud to welcome Crossroads’ Turning Points as a member organization.

This is more than a membership announcement.

Crossroads becomes the first organization to join CBHC under the Council’s Essential Provider & Safety Net Partner membership category, marking an important milestone in the continued evolution of Colorado’s behavioral health safety net association.

For nearly six decades, CBHC has represented the providers responsible for delivering behavioral healthcare in communities across Colorado. Throughout that time, one principle has remained constant: strong communities depend on a strong behavioral health safety net.

Over the past several years, Colorado’s behavioral health system has undergone significant transformation. New delivery models have emerged. The state’s behavioral health infrastructure has been redesigned. Expectations placed on providers have expanded. At the same time, organizations across the continuum of care continue to face growing challenges related to workforce, financing, regulatory complexity, and long-term sustainability.

As policymakers, providers, and communities have worked to strengthen and modernize the behavioral health system, CBHC has also examined how its membership structure can best reflect the organizations carrying out that work every day.

The result is a broader provider coalition focused on a shared goal: ensuring that Colorado’s behavioral health safety net remains strong, sustainable, and capable of meeting the needs of the communities it serves.

While CBHC’s roots are in community mental health, our mission has always been grounded in strengthening the full behavioral health safety net. That includes community mental health services, substance use disorder treatment, recovery supports, crisis services, residential treatment, and the many other services that help individuals and families achieve health and recovery.

Crossroads’ Turning Points exemplifies that commitment.

Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Pueblo, Crossroads has spent more than four decades serving individuals, families, and communities affected by substance use and mental health challenges. Through prevention services, outpatient treatment, withdrawal management, residential care, recovery supports, competency restoration, and community-based programming, Crossroads has built a reputation as one of Colorado’s leading behavioral health providers.

Their decision to join CBHC reflects a shared belief that collaboration matters. It also reflects the importance of ensuring that providers have a strong voice in the policy decisions that shape the future of behavioral healthcare in Colorado.

CBHC remains uniquely focused on the needs of Colorado’s behavioral health safety net providers and the communities they serve. As conversations continue around behavioral health financing, workforce development, system integration, crisis services, recovery supports, and implementation of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Demonstration Program, the need for a strong, provider-led voice has never been greater.

Welcoming Crossroads is not simply about adding a new member. It is about strengthening that voice.

We are honored to welcome Charles Davis and the entire Crossroads team to the Council and look forward to working together to advance policies, partnerships, and investments that strengthen Colorado’s behavioral health safety net for years to come.

Welcome to CBHC, Crossroads.

Together, we are building the next chapter of Colorado’s behavioral health safety net.