suicide prevention
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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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Suicide prevention in El Paso County moves to next level, calling on everyone to help reduce deaths
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser touted El Paso County’s two-year-old Suicide Prevention Collaborative Tuesday, saying he hopes more communities unite under a similar collective structure to reduce deaths by suicide. “This is going to be a model for Colorado,” Weiser said at a press conference outside the offices of Pikes Peak Suicide Prevention Partnership on…
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TRAIL MIX | Jason Kander stops trying to ‘outrun’ depression
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This column is usually about candidates running for office, but this week it’s about a candidate who stopped running. On Oct. 2, in a remarkably candid online post, Missouri Democrat Jason Kander, the frontrunner in next year’s race for mayor of Kansas City, declared he was ending his campaign. After 11 years of “trying to…
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201 new Colo. laws and rules take effect
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The biggest batch of new laws from the last legislative session hit the Colorado books Wednesday. The 201 new rules and regulations took effect 90 days after the end of the 120-day General Assembly. The laws run the gamut from marijuana and hemp to rural economic development and deregulation of taxis, as well as removing…
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Out West Roundup: Film industry officials hope next New Mexico governor boosts business
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New Mexico Film industry officials hope new governor boosts business SANTA FE – Officials in New Mexico’s film and television industry say a new governor may help boost business for film production in the state. Gubernatorial hopefuls seeking to succeed term-limited Gov. Susana Martinez say some potentially consequential tweaks to the state’s film and television…
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Gubernatorial candidates talk mental health, substance abuse at bipartisan forum
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DENVER – A stage full of gubernatorial candidates agreed on the importance of addressing issues surrounding mental health and substance abuse, but some differed sharply on their approaches at a bipartisan forum devoted to the topics on Friday in Denver. “This issue is literally a matter of life and death,” said Andrew Romanoff, president of…
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Linda Newell’s ‘Last Bill’ documentary depicts what government looks like from the inside
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There were lights, more than a few cameras and plenty of action at the premiere of former state Sen. Linda Newell’s documentary film Saturday afternoon at a Littleton theater located in the heart of her old Senate district. There was also a massive, forbidding doorway to Skull Island lit by flickering tiki lights, and lots…
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Linda Newell set to premiere behind-the-scenes film about legislative process
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You can take the lawmaker out of the Capitol, the old saying goes, but you can’t take the Capitol out of the lawmaker. Maybe that isn’t precisely how the old saying goes, but it describes former state Sen. Linda Newell’s path since the Littleton Democrat faced term limits last year. As her eight-year legislative career…
