May 2010
This month's updates come from:
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Colorado Association for Infant and Child Mental Health
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Colorado Youth Development Team
- Early Childhood Council
- Prevention Leadership Council
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 LINKS for Mental Health
- LINKS has produced a short paper on financing strategies, called Successful Principles and Strategies for Integrated Funding to Support Models Like High Fidelity Wraparound. The paper, or tip sheet, describes principles for integrated funding based on the experience of three Colorado communities with High Fidelity Wraparound. The principles can be applied by the state and communities interested in integrating funding to support any cross system model. To download the paper, please go to: http://www.csi-policy.org/links/documents
For more information, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@csi-policy.org
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Colorado Association for Infant and Child Mental Health
- The Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health is having a quarterly meeting on June 8th from 5:30-7:30pm at The Children’s Hospital. The meeting will include a lecture by Joy Browne entitled “Growing up in the Hospital: Mental Health influence and outcomes for infants, toddlers, and their families.”
For more information about the meeting, including distance participation, go to http://www.coaimh.org/UpComingMeetings.php .
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- The Colorado System of Care Collaborative will be holding a special meeting on strategic planning and goal setting for the Collaborative on Friday June 4th. The meeting will be held from 9am to 12pm 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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Colorado Youth Development Team
- CYDT is holding a Networking Breakfast on June 25th, 9-11a at Platte Forum, 1610 Little Raven Street, Suite 135 Denver, Colorado 80202. The goal of this breakfast is connect positive youth development professionals so that they can share practices, leverage resources, and coordinate efforts that promote a positive youth development approach.
The Colorado Youth Development Team is a private-public partnership of youth, family & community advocates, and youth serving professionals who have come together to infuse positive youth development strategies into state and local policies & infrastructure. For more information on the Colorado Youth Development Team, please contact Amy Engelman at Amy@csi-policy.org
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Early Childhood Council
- The Early Childhood Councils Advisory Team will be meeting on Wednesday, May 26th at the Clayton Learning Center at 3975 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Denver from 8:30am to 4:00pm. This meeting is open to the public.
For more information contact Susan.Marinelli@state.co.us .
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Prevention Leadership Council
- The PLC is pleased to announce that Governor Ritter has signed the State Plan for Prevention, Intervention and Treatment Services for Children and Youth, 2010-2013. This plan guides the work of the Prevention Leadership Council.
For more information, or to see the plan, please contact Jose Esquibel at j.esquibel@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 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.
