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When Crisis Access of Colorado won a bid to reform the state’s mental health services, its leader planned to bring the “A-Team” to serve the state’s poor and mentally ill. But mental health lobbyists used political connections to pressure state leaders out of their contract.
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Researchers say the survey demonstrates the need for mental health support throughout the region.
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Mind Springs President and CEO Sharon Raggio stepped down Tuesday, Jan. 4. Her resignation after 14 years in the position comes after the Colorado News Collaborative and many of its news partners statewide published an investigative story on the non-profit's failings.
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Two Colorado counties are breaking from their mental health provider. Others are taking notes.
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Colorado, the state with the nation’s highest rate of adult mental illness and lowest access to care, has been giving community mental health centers non-compete contracts and a privileged rate status for nearly 60 years, without meaningful oversight. This is the first in a series of investigative reports into the state's mental health system, from the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab).
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Gunnison County has a suicide rate more than twice the national average. COVID is making it worse. Now some residents are stepping up to try to stem a…
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For the time being, the children of city employees, hospital staffers and other essential workers are still romping around Little Angels Daycare.The…
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Tylan Jones is not naive. He is a 20-year-old Black man living in the United States. This reality does not easily accommodate naivete.When he was in…
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Scott Zayatz upped his dosage of antidepression and antianxiety medication in early spring when the pandemic started clobbering the nation and the…
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Some words fail us, and for Robert Werthwein, “depression” is one of them.The 41-year-old director of Colorado’s Behavioral Health Office prefers to say…