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May 2008
This month's updates come from:
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- School Health Services Leadership Task Force
- Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Project BLOOM
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Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
For more information, please contact Anne-Marie Braga at anne-marie.braga@state.co.us
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School Health Services Leadership Task Force
- The School Health Services Leadership Task Force is conducting a survey of stakeholders in school and health systems on what components are necessary for an integrated, streamlined school health services system. The survey will help inform the development of a plan to guide school health services funding and policies at the state, foundation, and local level! If you are familiar with the structure and components of school health services, your input in the survey would be of great value to the Task Force. To take the survey, please go to http://www.csi-policy.org/research/index.htm before the deadline of Sunday, June 8th.
For more information, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Research@CSI-Policy.org
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Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- Building Bridges is a new federally funded grant recently received by the Colorado Department of Education in partnership with Behavioral Health Services and State Judicial. Building Bridges is based on the integration of two models, System of Care and Positive Behavior Supports (PBS), with the goal of increasing access to behavioral health services and improving mental and behavioral health outcomes for school aged children and youth. Building Bridges combines state policy change with local implementation in Mesa County, which will result in a wide range of new tools and technical assistance approaches for communities throughout the state.
For more information, please contact Barb Bieber at bieber_b@cde.state.co.us or Denise McHugh at Denise@csi-policy.org
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Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
- The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing is requesting comments on its draft Request for Proposals (RFP) to administer and operate the Colorado Medicaid Community Mental Health Services Program (Mental Health Program). The draft RFP and exhibits will be published on the Department Web site the week of June 9th at http://www.chcpf.state.co.us/HCPF/web/draftrfp.asp . The public comment period will be from the date the draft RFP is posted through July 3, 2008. The Department will host a series of public forums to invite stakeholders to ask questions and provide feedback on the draft RFP. Meeting times and locations are posted on the Department's website at the URL above.
For more information, please contact Marceil Case at Marceil.case@state.co.us
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- The Colorado System of Care Collaborative's June 6th speakers, Bert Singleton and Brie Reinman, will be discussing the Access to Recovery program. New member orientation is from 9-9:30, and the Partnership meeting is from 9:30 - 11:30, both at the Tennyson Center for Children, 2950 Tennyson Street, Denver.
- The System of Care Collaborative Gaps and Barriers Committee is seeking your assistance in identifying other state and local groups working on addressing system gaps and barriers related to children and youth behavioral health. Please contact LisaJansenThompson@aumhc.org if you have information about:
- State or local groups that are addressing system gaps and barriers;
- Priority gaps and barriers that are being identified by these groups; and
- Whether, to the best of your knowledge, system of care values and principles being considered in moving efforts forward.
For more information, please contact Lisa Jansen Thompson at LisaJansenThompson@aumhc.org
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Project BLOOM
- Project BLOOM recently received a supplemental grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that includes revitalizing Colorado's Linking and Aligning project to develop a draft care coordination plan by September 2008 focused on the integration of behavioral and physical health of young children. Four monthly forums between May and August will engage experts and other stakeholders from across the state in developing subsections of the care coordination model. The first forum will be held on May 29th from 8:30am until 1pm.
For more information, please contact Jean M. Cimino at JeanCimino@gmail.com
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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 Anne-Marie Braga at anne-marie.braga@state.co.us.
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