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January 2009
This month's updates come from:
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program
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Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- The theme of the LINKS BIG Meeting IV is Sustaining Integration, with a focus on strategies to use during challenging fiscal times. LINKS hopes to recruit national and Colorado leaders to speak about principles of integration, family and youth involvement, and integration with schools. The meeting will take place on Friday, April 17th from 9am until 4:30pm at The Colorado History Museum. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to rebecca@csi-policy.org
- The LINKS workbook on Family and Youth Involvement in Policymaking is well underway. Chapters will cover such things as recruiting, reimbursement, meeting structure, youth engagement, cultural competence, evaluation, engagement beyond meetings, and more!
For more information, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@csi-policy.org
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Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- Building Bridges has a report available to stakeholders interested in learning more about the family, youth, and staff experience with children’s mental health needs in schools and other systems. The report is the result of eight focus groups and eight key informant interviews conducted in Mesa County: http://www.csi-policy.org/documents/BBMesaEvalResultsOct2008Final.pdf . A second report, available at http://www.csi-policy.org/documents/BBAddendumReportFinal.pdf , highlights the results on the same topic from an online survey for families and a youth focus group with the Youth Partnership for Health, the youth advisory board to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. For more information, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@csi-policy.org or 303-455-1740.
For more information about the Building Bridges project, please contact Barb Bieber at Bieber_B@cde.state.co.us
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Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health
- The Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health and its community partners will be hosting its second Biennial Conference entitled Early Childhood Mental Health in Colorado: Confident, Competent, Recognized on February 12th and 13th, 2009 at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado. The conference is focused on developing and promoting competencies for the early childhood workforce across settings, disciplines, and counties. The program features national speakers and local early childhood mental health leaders. The conference will highlight Colorado programs and agencies that provide state-of-the-art services that enable competent and confident professionals to work with babies, young children, and their families.
For more information, please go to http://www.kinsleymeetings.com/coaimh/index.htm
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Susan Colling, of the Colorado Judicial Department, will be coming to discuss the “Children in Crisis” curriculum on intervention skills and strategies for law enforcement officers at the next Colorado System of Care Collaborative meeting on February 6th, from 9:30 to 11:30am. The meeting will take place at the Tennyson Center, at 2950 Tennyson Street, Denver 80212. There is an orientation from 9 to 9:30am for new members.
For more information, please contact Margie Grimsley at m_grimsley@msn.com
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Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program
- The Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program has released an RFP for an evaluator starting July 1, 2009. Interested applicants can go to the State Purchasing Office Vendor and Solicitation page (https://www.gssa.state.co.us/VenSols). This page provides information on how to register, FAQs and other pertinent information. People interested in applying need to be registered on the BIDS system prior to the date of submission, February 5, 2009. The Bid Number is LQ-PSD09061 under Open Solicitations by Agency.
For more information, please contact Alyssa Lasseter at alyssa.lasseter@state.co.us
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To be included in next month's LINKING YOU, please send us your planning or organization group's name, contact info, up to three bullets of one sentence each, and where possible, a link to more information.
Brought to you by the Colorado LINKS for Mental Health Initiative. For more information about the Initiative, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@CSI-Policy.org
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