Our Work
The Denver Foundation has engaged CHI to support its multi-year project that aims to improve access to behavioral health care for Coloradans with high health needs.
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.
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
Statewide Needs Assessment of Primary Prevention for Substance Abuse (SNAPS) Final Report
Team CHI traveled throughout Colorado to identify the best ideas and programs for preventing youth from using and abusing substances for a new report commissioned by the Office of Behavioral Health.
You know you’re a health policy nerd when the back-and-forth action of this spring’s NCAA basketball tournament reminds you of public health legislation in Colorado. Wondering how action on the court translates to action at the state Capitol? I’ll explain.
Republicans and Democrats have taken turns advancing their offensive playbooks by introducing public health bills over the past couple years. But opponents have played solid defense, blocking the easy lay up to the governor’s desk.
Colorado Reaches a Record High for Overdose Fatalities. Again.
More Coloradans have been dying of drug overdoses each year for nearly a decade. It’s a health crisis that’s been increasingly in the public eye, but the newest data are still startling: Some 912 people died of an overdose in 2016 – a state record. Preliminary data from 2017 suggest that more than 950 died of an overdose last year.
Three pillars of a policy response and where the Colorado legislature’s actions match up to the evidence