mental health colorado
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Colorado ski-resort county hopes to tax pot to fund mental health services
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When Eagle County Public Health and Environment director Chris Lindley moved up to the Vail Valley from Denver a few months ago, he was stunned to learn his new home doesn’t have a single bed for people dealing with mental health or substance abuse issues. “Being new to the county and coming up here from…
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A former speaker gets in his political licks while minding mental health
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No one has to ask, “Remember Andrew Romanoff?” The forever-youthful Democratic boy wonder and former Colorado House speaker never went away. He has mounted two high-profile, if ultimately unsuccessful, runs for elective office since leaving the legislature in 2008. And more to the point, all of us media types keep writing about him – win,…
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Mental Health Colorado is looking for people who make a difference
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How is Democratic forever-wunderkind and former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff applying his considerable talents these days? Advocating for mental health as president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado. And he could use your help – identifying and celebrating success – as he explains in a missive to the media this week: … Specifically, we’re…
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Romanoff: Coloradans weigh in on barriers to mental health care
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More than one million Coloradans experience a mental health or substance-use disorder each year. Only 40 percent receive treatment. What stops so many Coloradans from getting the mental health care they need? And what can we do about it? Mental Health Colorado – the state’s leading advocate for the prevention and treatment of mental illness…
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Romanoff: Colorado could be national leader in mental health
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When you’re raised by a social worker and a prosecutor, you hear a lot about mental health. My mother spent her first year in graduate school performing social work at a state mental institution. Her father, a psychiatrist, conducted evaluations at the same facility. But eventually that hospital, like many others around the country, was…
