The Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council has submitted an open letter to Governor Polis, calling for an audit of the behavioral health system.
“We need to make the system much more accessible and we need to break down some of these barriers,” Doyle Forrestal said in an interview with the Colorado Sun.
The article highlights the issues being addressed, the intense conversation underway, and the hard work being done to fix the system. Read the full article in the Colorado Sun.
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