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September 2010
This month's updates come from:
- Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council
- Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved
- Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
- Colorado School Safety Resource Center
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
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 Behavioral Healthcare Council
For more information, please contact Brian Turner at bturner@cbhc.org.
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Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved
- The Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved is holding its 2010 Annual Conference on October 8th at The Children’s Hospital. The theme of this year’s conference is Fulfilling the Promise of Coverage and Care for the Underserved. Speakers include Rachel Nuzum from The Commonwealth Fund, Pam Hanes from Colorado Health Institute, Kavita Panel from The New America Foundation, as well as a number of others from The Georgetown Center for Children and Families, The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, and The Urban Institute.
- To learn more about attending the conference or becoming a sponsor, please go to http://www.ccmu.org/conference.asp
For more information, please contact Larissa Ortiz at ortiz.larissa@gmail.com
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Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
- CCHI is holding its annual event, called A Night Among the Stars, on Thursday, October 14th, from 6 to 8pm at the Grand Hyatt Denver Mount Sopris Ballroom at 1750 Welton Street in Denver. Please feel free to register for a night of entertainment, mingling, light hors d’oeuvres, and discussions around Healthcare Reform Implementation.
- To register (by October 4th), please go to http://cchi.convio.net/site/Calendar?id=100181&view=Detail
For more information, please contact CCHI@cohealthinitiative.org
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Colorado School Safety Resource Center
- The Colorado School Safety Resource Center is presenting the Colorado Safe Schools Regional Training in Pueblo, October 20-21, 2010. Speakers include Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; David J Schonfeld, MD, FAAP, Director, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; and Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Co-Director, Cyberbullying Research Center and others.
- To register, please go to www.co.train.org. The course ID number is 1021638.
- Conference registrants are invited to attend a Special Event (Pre-Conference Evening) on the topic of “Supporting Grieving Students” featuring Dr. David Schonfeld at 7:00-8:30 pm on October 20, 2010. RSVP is required, please email schoolsafetycenter@cdps.state.co.us to RSVP.
For more information, please go to www.safeschools.state.co.us or contact the Colorado School Safety Resource Center at 303-239-4435.
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- The Colorado System of Care Collaborative 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/.
- The next meeting of the Colorado System of Care Collaborative will be focused on a discussion of the family focus groups that were conducted by the Family Resource Center Association on behalf of BBYT on TANF. The meeting will be on Friday October 1st, 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.
For more information, please contact Gloria Blosser at gloriab@jeffcojac.org
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Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
- The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) is holding a number of Health Care Expansion Population Stakeholder Conferences across Colorado this fall. The purpose of the conferences is to provide an overview of the new Medicaid expansion programs and the current status of their development. There will be opportunity for attendees to share their thoughts and feedback about the programs. The Medicaid expansion programs to be discussed at this conference are for adults without dependent children up to 100% FPL, working adults with disabilities and children with disabilities. Any family member, advocate, provider or staff member interested in learning about the new Medicaid expansion programs should attend.
- The upcoming dates and locations are:
- October 7, Montrose, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites
- October 13, Lafayette, Imagine! Conference Center
- October 21, Gunnison, Quality Inn
- November 4, Trinidad, Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites
- November 9, Colorado Springs, Double Tree Hotel
- To register, please go to http://hcpftraining.gosignmeup.com/
For more information, please contact outreach@hcpf.state.co.us
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- September 23rd, which is the 6 month anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (PPACA), marked the beginning of several historical changes for health care. Provisions to healthcare reform include health coverage for more children, elimination of lifetime and most annual limits on care, and patient access to preventative services such as mammograms and colonoscopies without charging a deductible, co-pay, or co-insurance.
- To learn more about health care reform, please go to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ recently released website. The site’s information is organized into sections on finding insurance options, learning about prevention, comparing care quality, and understanding the new law. Since this is the first web site to collect both public and private health insurance options across the nation in a single place, it may prove to be an extremely useful tool for foundations and grantee organizations.
- To access the site, please go to http://www.healthcare.gov/
For more information, please go to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at http://www.hhs.gov/
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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.
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