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Third in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shootings four years ago.
The policy approaches in Connecticut after the Sandy Hook school shootings - five months after Colorado's Aurora theater shootings - can provide guidance to Colorado and other states that are working to provide better access to mental health intervention services.
Second in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shooting four years ago.
In the four years since the deadly Aurora Theater shootings, many of the resulting policies addressing mental health care and crisis services in Colorado have started to show promise. Others, though, are designed to fix long-term systemic issues and will take much longer to implement and then assess.
More than 442,000 Coloradans said they did not get the mental health care they needed in 2015. That’s one of ten residents of our state.
Adolescence is a time of great change, many unknowns and great opportunity. And for some, it’s a critical time to get the help they need.
Drumroll, please! Introducing the first map in a new series called “CHAS: Mapping Data A to Z.” Let’s break it down.
When the new Colorado Springs Health Foundation invited us to speak with its board members about health care issues in its region, we were eager to pull together data and analysis. But first, we wanted to learn more about the foundation. Its executive director, Cari Davis, spoke with us about this new addition to the Front Range philanthropic community.
The Colorado Health Institute identified five key trends related to mental health in Colorado.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) used adult and child state survey data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) to measure the relationship between parental mental health and child mental health outcomes.
With momentum in the state around behavioral health, CHI has decided to provide a snapshot of Colorado’s behavioral health both on the state level and for each of Colorado’s 21 health statistics regions. Our newest data workbook, Behavioral Health Data in Colorado, does just that.
Many students deal with stress brought on by academic expectations, peer pressure, bullying and other factors. All that stress can take a toll on a young person’s mental health.