November 2010
This month's updates come from:
- Building Bridges for Children's Behavioral Health
- Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Partners for Colorado
- Teen Screen
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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Building Bridges for Children’s Behavioral Health
For more information about Building Bridges, please contact Barb Bieber at Bieber_B@cde.state.co.us
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Colorado LINKS for Mental Health
- The Colorado LINKS for Mental Health Initiative is transitioning in 2011 to Quarterly Networking Meetings! The 2011 meetings are on January 4th, April 5th, July 5th (this meeting is subject to change), and October 4th, from 2pm to 4pm, at The Tennyson Center for Children at 2950 Tennyson Street, Denver CO 80212. The January meeting will focus on the upcoming legislative session and how it relates to children’s behavioral health issues.
For more information, please contact Jose Esquibel at j.esquibel@state.co.us
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- The Colorado System of Care Collaborative was formed in the spring of 2003 to define a common vision, value system, and goals to address the complicated system of services for children, youth, and families with multiple and complex educational, safety, and overall health needs. The Collaborative is made up of concerned stakeholders representing state agencies, community programs, parents, youth, and advocates.
- The next meeting of the Collaborative will be on Friday December 3rd, 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.
- CSOCC 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/.
For more information, please contact Gloria Blosser at gloriab@jeffcojac.org
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Partners for Colorado
- With the November elections over, it's time to make sure children and families in need are a priority for our leaders. Governor Elect John Hickenlooper's transition team recently hosted regional meetings to discuss ideas and suggestions for moving Colorado forward. Although the meetings are concluded, you can still provide input at the Partners for Colorado website. Please take a few minutes to share your priorities for the integration of systems serving children and families at www.partnersforcolorado.com.
For more information, please go to www.partnersforcolorado.com
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Teen Screen
- Teen Screen is a program of the National Center for Mental Health Checkup at Columbia University that offers free support to health professionals working to implement annual mental health and substance abuse screenings for adolescent patients. Numerous screening related tools and resources are available at https://mail.google.com/a/csi-policy.org/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4
For more information, please go to https://mail.google.com/a/csi-policy.org/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4
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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.
