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Behavioral Health Administration launches data hub to monitor Colorado mental health progress
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About 112,000 Colorado residents last year received publicly funded community mental health services. The Colorado Behavioral Health Administration provided this data point, along with several other facts and figures marking the state’s progress in addressing the mental health crisis through a new hub launched on July 1. The data hub comes two years after the…
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Colorado crisis call center set to lay off 330 employees in Denver
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The Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners call center is preparing to lay off the majority of its staff after seemingly losing out on the procurement of a new contract with Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration (BHA). The nonprofit announced the upcoming permanent layoffs of 330 employees in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) listing on…
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With focus on fentanyl, providers say Colorado must improve its treatment options
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As the executive director of a harm-reduction facility in the heart of Denver, Lisa Raville interacts with substance users constantly. Ask her about the state of inpatient treatment in the metro area, and she’ll laugh, as if you asked her about a stairway to the moon. Ask Julie Taub, an addiction medicine physician at Denver…
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Colorado names new head of Office of Behavioral Health
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The Colorado Department of Human Services announced Monday that Leora Joseph has been named director of the Office of Behavioral Health. The office was reconfigured after the legislature set up a new Behavioral Health Administration, which went into effect July 1. Previously, the OBH had oversight over community behavioral health services, including the Community Mental…
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Lawmakers seek audit of community mental health centers
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The Legislative Audit Committee authorized the state auditor to draft a bill that would investigate 17 nonprofit community mental health centers that were granted “non-compete contracts and a privileged rate status for nearly 60 years, without meaningful oversight.” The audit was requested in January by Reps. Dafna Michaelson Jenet, D-Aurora and Colin Larson, R-Littleton, and…
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State mental health safety net is ‘failing’ Coloradans. Will planned reforms fix or further the problems?
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This investigation is part of the ongoing “On Edge” series about Colorado’s mental health by the Colorado News Collaborative, the nonprofit that unites more than 160 communities and news outlets like ours to ensure quality news for all Coloradans. The series title reflects a state that has the nation’s highest rate of adult mental illness…
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With mental health needs in crisis, will a new state agency help?
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Mental health services, far outstripped by the need for both youth and adults, are the focus of a new state agency being created within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). The new agency, which will be known as the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), is to be housed, until at least 2024, within CDHS. The…
