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August 2008
This month's updates come from:
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council
- Colorado State Youth Council
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Project BLOOM
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Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health has another MOU partner! The Colorado System of Care Collaborative approved the signing of the MOU and excited to formalize its partnership with LINKS on family and youth involvement activities.
- The Budget, Funding, and Finance Leadership Team is developing a white paper on fiscal coordination. It includes recommended first steps for addressing fiscal recommendations from many previous efforts, including the HJR08-1050 Behavioral Health Task Force, Colorado's Juvenile Justice State Plan for Youth with Mental Health Issues and Co-Occurring Disorders, the Prevention Leadership Council, and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, a leading national organization with a focus on fiscal reform. A combination of fiscal and programmatic staff from multiple state agencies are working together to move forward with fiscal coordination efforts around kids with mental health and co-occurring needs.
For more information, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@CSI-Policy.org
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Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council
- The Civilians for Veterans Fund is a new partnership that is bringing the network of Colorado's Community Mental Health Centers together, with the generosity of private donors and the expertise of the Veterans Administration (VA), to allow veterans and their families to receive mental health and substance use treatment in a confidential location near their home. In this unique collaborative effort that has the support of Colorado's First Lady, Jeannie Ritter, families and veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) are receiving free, confidential mental health treatment in three rural areas of Colorado. Currently, the Civilians for Veterans Fund is helping to provide services in three regions of Colorado; the San Luis Valley, Gunnison/Montrose region, and in the Southeastern areas covering the Arkansas Valley. For more information about the Civilians for Veterans Fund or to receive additional supporting documents, contact Doyle Forrestal, Director of Public Policy at the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council, 303-832-7594 or dforrestal@cbhc.org
For more information, please contact Doyle Forrestal at gdelgrosso@cbhc.org
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Colorado State Youth Council
- The Colorado State Youth Council and WIN Partners/University of Colorado Denver (UCD) will be hosting an online training and teleconference on Census Data—What Is It, & How Can It Be Used in Program & Project Planning. The training, scheduled for Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:00-1:15pm, is targeted to staff that serve youth, staff that coordinate youth programs, members of local youth councils, and partners from other agencies that serve youth. It will be conducted using an online delivery system, such as Adobe Connect coupled with a teleconference line. This workshop provides an in-depth look at the Census Bureau's web site, www.census.gov, and will explore what type of data is available and how to access this information using interactive tools, including American FactFinder. Participants will learn how to retrieve reports, create tables, and generate thematic maps using the Census Bureau's website. For more information, or to receive the link to the web teleconference, please contact Steve Wright at steve.wright@state.co.us
For more information, please contact Steve Wright at steve.wright@state.co.us
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- At the next Colorado System of Care Collaborative meeting, there will not only be an update on the 2010 Initiative from the Colorado Children's Campaign, but there will also be a discussion on the state of family involvement. The meeting is Friday September 5th from 9-11:30am at The Tennyson Center (2950 Tennyson Street).
For more information, please contact Margie Grimsley at m_grimsley@msn.com
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Project BLOOM
- Project BLOOM will be holding a fourth and final Linking and Aligning Forum on Thursday, September 4 from 8:30am-1:00pm, with the purpose of developing a care coordination plan/process for the integration of physical and behavioral health for young children. This forum is the fourth in a four-part series, although attendance at the previous three forums it is not a requirement to participate. Minutes from the first three forums are available on request. The goals of the September 4th forum are to develop recommendations for specified target audiences of the care coordination plan and develop next steps for the plan. The forum will begin with small group work, followed by a panel of systems-level stakeholders who will respond to the small group discussion. The forum will be held at the University of Colorado at Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus, Education 2 NORTH Building, 13120 E. 19th Ave., 1st Floor, Room 1304, Aurora, Colorado 80045. To register, please click on the following link and then scroll down the page to find: Project BLOOM - Linking and Aligning Forum #4): http://www.jfkpartners.org/Workshops.asp . For more information, please contact Jean Cimino at JeanCimino@gmail.com.
For more information, please contact Jean Cimino at JeanCimino@gmail.com.
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