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Comprehensive Healthcare Re-entry Program
Colorado Springs, CO

This project represents a partnership of three faith-based health clinics that rely on volunteer staff, a substance abuse treatment provider and community-service organizations to help individuals newly released from prison to successfully reintegrate into the community. Together the partners will provide basic medical and mental health care and medications, employment readiness, life skills and counseling related to family and personal relations. A licensed case manager meets with incarcerated individuals prior to their release, then coordinates services including a corps of volunteer peer counselors.

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Metro Denver Crisis Triage Project
Denver, CO

In this highly collaborative initiative, individuals experiencing a mental health crisis anywhere in the seven counties of metropolitan Denver will receive urgent psychiatric care and follow-up services. A shared call center and information system will help coordinate existing community-based behavioral health services and three crisis centers will replace the current inappropriate use of jails and emergency rooms. Leaders from hospitals, consumer groups, criminal justice, behavioral health care providers, government, business, insurance companies, philanthropy and other groups worked together for two years to plan this ambitious new system.

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Aging Well
Steamboat Springs, CO

Wellness programs focusing on exercise, nutrition, chronic disease management and social support can help seniors remain safe and independent in their own homes. But seniors in rural Colorado's sparsely populated ranching and mining communities cannot easily attend such activities. So visiting nurses, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the State Unit on Aging and the Consortium for Older Adult Wellness are partnering with health providers and community colleges to help isolated seniors stay healthy while remaining in their familiar frontier environment. If successful, this project will serve a rural naturally occurring retirement region.

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Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Partnership
Fort Collins, CO

Through a community partnership in Larimer County, Colorado, the project will implement systemic changes required to achieve a well-coordinated continuum of mental health and substance abuse services, significantly improving responsiveness and effectiveness for those who need information or services.

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Mesa County Consortium on Health Collaborative Family Health Care (CFHC) Project
Grand Junction, CO

The project goal is meet the multiple needs of our patients who experience a high prevalence of mental health disorders interwoven with chronic physical illness. Also to seek to improve access to, and quality of care for, chronic health conditions of low-income, uninsured people in Mesa County, Colorado through the use of psychosocial professionals working in close collaboration with their biomedical colleagues.

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Miles For Smiles
Denver, CO

A mobile dental program targeting children of working poor families, ages 0-18, in rural Colorado. Created to increase access to clinical and educational oral health services and to increase the public's awareness of the serious dental issues facing low-income populations.

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Mile High Child Care Healthy Beginnings Program
Denver, CO

This is an initiative to provide health care to children of working parents who have recently left the welfare rolls at subsidized childcare centers.

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