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In his State of the State address on Jan. 12, Gov. John Hickenlooper called for making the behavioral health system “easier to navigate, more efficient and more responsive.”
He noted strides in expanding access to coverage and integrating primary care and behavioral health. “But,” he added, “behavioral health demands our attention at all points … and not just as one-off efforts when problems get too big to ignore.”
This interactive dashboard displays Colorado’s ongoing struggle with one of the nation’s highest suicide rates. Trends are displayed by gender, region and method.
Colorado consistently ranks well nationally on health-related measures such as obesity and physical activity. But Colorado also is in the top 10 of a list no state wants to win — the highest rate of suicides.
The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) has analyzed new county-level estimates on drug overdose deaths by county from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a report and a time-lapse map.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore bullying among Colorado’s high schoolers using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
This interactive dashboard and analysis explore mental health among Colorado’s high schoolers using data from the 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.
Third in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shootings four years ago.
The policy approaches in Connecticut after the Sandy Hook school shootings - five months after Colorado's Aurora theater shootings - can provide guidance to Colorado and other states that are working to provide better access to mental health intervention services.
Second in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shooting four years ago.
In the four years since the deadly Aurora Theater shootings, many of the resulting policies addressing mental health care and crisis services in Colorado have started to show promise. Others, though, are designed to fix long-term systemic issues and will take much longer to implement and then assess.
More than 442,000 Coloradans said they did not get the mental health care they needed in 2015. That’s one of ten residents of our state.
Adolescence is a time of great change, many unknowns and great opportunity. And for some, it’s a critical time to get the help they need.