November 2009
This month's updates come from:
- Building Bridges for Children’s Mental Health
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
- The Colorado Health Foundation
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Colorado Youth Development Team
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Building Bridges for Children’s Mental Health
- Building Bridges is in the process of putting together a number of fact sheets around mental health issues for parents and teachers. Six fact sheets, on Anxiety Disorder, Bi-Polar Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Supporting Daily Transition in Schools, and Mandated Reporting in Schools are already completed and available on the Building Bridges website at http://www.csi-policy.org/buildingbridges/brochures-en-sp.html. Several more are being developed, on Reactive Attachment Disorder, Stigma, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Substance Use, Tourettes Disorder, Family and School Partnerships, Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Depression, Eating Disorders, Schizophrenia, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
For more information, please contact Barb Bieber at Bieber_B@cde.state.co.us
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Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- The new LINKS Repository for Systems Transformation (ReST) Website will be available in a few weeks! The ReST Website has links to over 100 highly practical, hands-on resources that can help local communities and state agencies integrate multiple systems to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families. Please keep your eye out for the announcement in the next LINKING YOU!!
For more information, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@csi-policy.org
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Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
- The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing’s Program Eligibility Application Kit, or PEAK, is up and running. This self-service, interactive web site, which is part of HCPF’s system streamlining efforts, allows potential applicants the ability to check for possible eligibility for food assistance, cash assistance, and medical assistance, and allows existing clients to check the status of their benefits through the “Check My Benefits” function. The site is in English and Spanish. To access PEAK, go to Colorado.gov/benefits
For more information, please contact Marceil Case at Marceil.case@state.co.us
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The Colorado Health Foundation
- The Colorado Health Foundation invites organizations to submit applications to increase the enrollment of eligible students in Medicaid and the Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+). Specifically, the Foundation seeks to fund two-year grants to create partnerships between school districts and county departments of human / social services or other state designated medical assistamce sites. Applicants must represent a partnership between a school district or charter board of directors and county departments fuman / social servoces or other state designated assistance sites. The next deadline for grant applications is Januray 15th, 2010.
For more information, please go the Colorado Health Department's Website at http://www.coloradohealth.org/student_enrollment.aspx
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- The Colorado System of Care Collaborative will be meeting to discuss demonstration site applications for fiscal integration technical assistance from the Blending & Braiding Youth TANF Initiative. The meeting will be held 9:00 – 12:00pm on Friday, December 4th at The Jefferson County Juvenile Assessment Center, at 11011 W. 6th Avenue, Suite 120, Lakewood, CO 80215.
For more information, please contact Gloria Blosser at gloriab@jeffcojac.org
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Colorado Youth Development Team
- Does your planning group have a youth council or advisory board? If so, the Colorado Youth Development Team wants to map you onto the Colorado Youth Leaders Map to increase the visibility of your work and to connect you with other youth leaders and adult partners. Coming soon at http://www.healthyyouthcolorado.org!
- Also, you can start connecting with other Youth Development advocates from across the state at http://coloradoyouthdevelopment.ning.com. There are over 300 members, many discussions, postings for events across the state, and more. Start connecting today!
The Colorado Youth Development Team is a private-public partnerships 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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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
