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March 2009
This month's updates come from:
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- The Behavioral Health Cabinet
- Bridging the Divide: Suicide Awareness and Prevention Summit
- The Denver Rocky Mountain Association of Black Psychologists
- The Family Policy Academy & the Colorado System of Care Collaborative
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Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- The Integration of Efforts Leadership Team is developing the "Repository for Systems Transformation" (ReST). The ReST will include a wide range of resources for local communities, state partners, and advocacy organizations as they work on transformative efforts in behavioral health and related systems. The resources include tools for collaboration, evaluation, integrating evidence-based practices, addressing disparities, assessing needs and readiness, engaging partners, understanding policy and funding options, and more!
- The LINKS BIG Meeting IV speakers now include Dr. Janice Cooper, a national expert on financing behavioral health integration, Attorney General John Suthers, Representative Jerry Frangas, the Division of Behavioral Health’s Janet Wood, the Division of Child Welfare’s Lloyd Malone, the Department of Education’s Ed Steinberg, and others. In addition, the Keynote Address will be given by Judge K.J. Moore, of the 1st Judicial District; and First Lady of Colorado Jeannie Ritter will be giving the welcome. The meeting is from 9am until 4:30pm on Friday, April 17th at The Colorado History Museum.
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 will be presenting at The 21st Annual Colorado Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference, titled "Building a 'Green' System of Care: Changing the Environment of Mental Health Services". The conference is April 5-7, 2009 at the Hilton Fort Collins, 425 W. Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO 80526. The Building Bridges presenters will be giving an overview of System of Care and Positive Behavior Supports, reviewing results from its recent focus groups in Mesa County, and discussing how data is being used to drive decision making at the state and local demonstration site levels. They will also focus on family partnership at all levels of the Building Bridges project. Their presentation is on Monday, April 6th from 3-5pm.
For more information, please contact Barb Bieber at Bieber_B@cde.state.co.us
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The Behavioral Health Cabinet
- The Behavioral Health Cabinet is overseeing a "Transformation Transfer Initiative". The State of Colorado has contracted with two national consultant organizations – TriWest Group and Advocates for Human Potential (AHP) – to work with members of the Governor’s Cabinet, Judicial and Legislative Branch representatives, consumers, families, providers, advocates and other stakeholders to integrate and streamline behavioral health services in Colorado. TriWest and AHP are helping develop a planning and implementation process to improve behavioral health services over the next several years. Stakeholder forums will be taking place during the month of April. Colorado was awarded a Transformation Transfer Initiative Grant by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Heath Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support this effort.
For more information, please contact Janet Wood at janet.wood@state.co.us
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Bridging the Divide: Suicide Awareness and Prevention Summit
- Please mark your calendars for May 27-28, 2009 for the second annual Bridging the Divide: Suicide Awareness and Prevention Summit at Regis University. The conference will provide a great opportunity to network with statewide and national suicide prevention stakeholders, and there will be some fantastic presentations and keynote speakers. A pre-conference session, available to a limited number of participants, will focus on suicide prevention advocacy at the state and local level. In conjunction with the conference, the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado will hold its Prisms of the Heart event the evening of May 27 at the Mile High Station in Denver. Kevin Hines, national speaker and survivor of a suicidal jump from the Golden Gate Bridge, will be the featured speaker.
For more information, please visit: http://www.suicidepreventionsummit.com/index.html
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The Denver Rocky Mountain Association of Black Psychologists
- On Friday, April 24th, 2009, The Denver-Rocky Mountain Association of Black Psychologists is hosting 2009 Professional Development Symposium on Culturally Responsive Practices in Behavioral Health, Education, Criminal Justice, and Child Welfare. The symposium is intended for psychologists, lawyers, law enforcement, counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, substance abuse, treatment providers, school psychologists, teachers, victim advocates, students, and licensed marriage & family counselors. The symposium will be held from 7:30am until 5:00pm at the Community College of Aurora, 16000 E. Centretech Parkway, Aurora, CO 80011. Pre-registration is $150; on-site registration is $200. There is also a group registration rate of $125 for groups of 5 or more. Register online and see symposium training tracks at www.abpsi-denver.org .
For more information, please go to www.abpsi-denver.org .
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The Family Policy Academy & the Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- To hear about Colorado’s recent participation in the National Policy Academy on Family-Driven Services in San Diego, California, please attend a joint meeting of the Family Policy Academy and the Colorado System of Care Collaborative. The National Policy Academy meeting in San Diego brought together teams from 6 selected states, with the purpose of developing policies supporting family-driven services for children and adolescents. Colorado's focus was on strengthening family advocacy and family leadership. The upcoming joint meeting is being held from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 3rd at the Tennyson Center for Children, 2950 Tennyson Street, 3rd Floor (Room E, F and G), Denver 80212. There is also a new member orientation from 9-9:30am, open to all. Please RSVP by Friday, March 27th to Jacquie Enriquez at jacqueline.enriquez@state.co.us.
For more information, please contact Bill Bane at Bill.Bane@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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