July 2010
This month's updates come from:
- Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Family Leadership Training Institute
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
For more resources on systems integration, including tools to guide you through planning to implementation to evaluation, please visit the Repository for Systems Transformation at http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ps/ipsp/ReST/index.html
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Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council Integrated Care Map
- A crucial part of health care reform in the United States is the movement toward treating the whole person - mind and body - in an integrated setting. Colorado has been making strong efforts in this direction for quite some time and now has a tool for various health care providers and policy makers to learn about the different levels of collaborative arrangements that currently exist across the state.
- The Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC) has been mapping and profiling all of the locations where its member community mental health providers are currently providing integrated services, totaling nearly one hundred sites to date. The CBHC Integrated Care Map demonstrates how providers have tailored their collaborative efforts to meet the unique needs of each community, pulling from the diverse pool of community resources available to help assure success.
- To read more about the CBHC Integrated Care Mapping Project and to see the Map itself, please go to http://www.cbhc.org/integration/map.
For more information, please contact Brian Turner at bturner@cbhc.org.
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- The Colorado System of Care Collaborative has recently launched a new website! The website has the history and principles of the Collaborative, resources for new and potential members, links to its partner organizations, and information about the Blending & Braiding Your TANF Initiative. To access the website, please go to http://www.cosystemofcare.org/.
- The next meeting of the Colorado System of Care Collaborative will continue recent work on the SOC Collaborative Action Plan by establishing specific goals and activities for the next year. The meeting will be on Friday August 6th, from 9:30am to 11:30am, at the Jefferson County Juvenile Assessment Center, 11011 W. 6th Avenue, Suite 120, Lakewood, Colorado 80215. All are welcome.
For more information, please contact Gloria Blosser at gloriab@jeffcojac.org
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Family Leadership Training Institute
- The Family Leadership Training Institute (FLTI) is a public-private partnership in which local communities to provide parents, youth, and/or communities with the knowledge, skills and tools they need for effective civic engagement. The goals of the FLTI are to affect positive family leadership development by
- Helping families become leaders in their communities through civic engagement;
Expanding and facilitating the capacity of families to be change agents on a neighborhood, regional and state level;
Developing supportive communities of families within regions of the state;
Facilitating family involvement in state and local policy decision-making processes; and
Increasing parent-child interaction through family involvement.
- On Saturday, July 24th, eighty-eight family leaders from Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Larimer and Montezuma/Delores Counties graduated from the most recent 20 week FLTI program. To engage these new and highly invested family leaders in your community or systems change effort, or to find an online application for the next FLTI, please go to http://www.coloradomedicalhome.com/FamilyLeadership/.
For more information, please go to http://www.coloradomedicalhome.com/FamilyLeadership/.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just released a website designed to provide tailored, state-specific health care information to families with children, individuals, people with disabilities, seniors, young adults, and employers. The site’s information is organized into sections on finding insurance options, learning about prevention, comparing care quality, and understanding the new law.
- This is the first web site to collect both public and private health insurance options across the nation in a single place. As such, it may prove to be an extremely useful tool for foundations and grantee organizations. The site features an interactive timeline highlighting key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, and there is a section devoted to implementation, which features materials related to the Act, including regulations, authorities, and requests for comment.
- To access the site, please go to http://www.healthcare.gov/
For more information, please go to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at http://www.hhs.gov/
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Brought to you by the Center for Systems Integration for the Colorado LINKS for Mental Health Initiative. For more information about the Initiative, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@CSI-Policy.org.
