Our Work
Last year, 17,000 Coloradans received behavioral health services that they wouldn’t have otherwise. That’s thanks to $3.9 million from the Colorado Health Access Fund, administered by The Denver Foundation.
The 2018 legislative session has come to a close. As we make sense of the last-minute action, which continued in both chambers all the way until 11:59 p.m. on Day 120, we’re thinking about how prescient (or completely wrong) we were with our predictions before Day One.
We’re no fortune tellers, but we think we did OK. Let’s take a look at five predictions from our January legislative forecast report, A Steep Climb to Common Ground:
CHI's Allie Morgan reports from the floor of Colorado's House of Representatives.
Bills related to climate change in the legislature this session haven't made it far.
Colorado's suicide rate is one of the nation's highest. Legislators have considered several bills related to preventing suicides this year.
Colorado Struggles to Address Mental Health and Substance Use: A Colorado Health Access Survey Issue Brief
Introducing CHI's 2017 Access to Care Index.
Colorado's legislature has introduced a number of bills involving commercial health insurance in 2018. How have they fared?
Statewide Needs Assessment of Primary Prevention for Substance Abuse (SNAPS) Final Report