Diverse Approaches to Behavioral Health
Photo by Joe Mahoney / Special to The Colorado Trust
Overview
The Colorado Trust is seeking to increase and improve access to quality mental and behavioral health care for those who face barriers to living a long and healthy life. The purpose of this initiative is to fund entities to ensure the delivery of effective and/or innovative mental and behavioral health services.
Grantees
Alliance Against Domestic Abuse
Support for services, education and social change for people affected by intimate partner and sexual violence, and for offering clinical counseling, restorative practices, therapeutic visitation services and collaborative community programming to address mental health crises and improve access to care.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $341,747
Asian Girls Ignite
Support for mentorship, group workshops and community events to bolster participants’ confidence, leadership skills and sense of self. (Fiscal sponsor: The HadaNõu Collective)
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $348,991
CASA of Larimer County
Support for addressing the gap in transitional behavioral health care in the child welfare system by delivering Trust-Based Relational Intervention, a trauma-informed and evidence-based curriculum, to caregivers and systems professionals.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $346,220
Centennial Mental Health Center, Inc.
Support for expanding culturally and linguistically informed care for patients by increasing the number of multilingual providers, certified medical translators, video-based interpretive services and diversity trainings.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Eagle County School District
Support for implementing restorative practices in four middle schools and eight elementary schools for improving school culture, reducing racial disparities in discipline and promoting positive behavioral health for students of color, LGBTQ+ students and students with disabilities.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $354,699
Girls Inc. of Metro Denver
Support for expanding and improving mental and behavioral health programming for 18-year-old girls, increasing access to mental and behavioral health care options and services for the girls and their families through hiring a full-time mental health provider, evaluating current programs and integrating mental health practices across all age groups.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $335,000
Gunnison Hinsdale Youth Services
Funding for collaboration supporting diverse approaches to behavioral health for youth and families, improving referrals, screenings and intervention processes for youth facing adverse childhood experiences, and for providing universal social-emotional learning, mentoring and school-based mental health support.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $306,736
Heart-J Center for Experiential Learning
Support for providing customized outdoor experiences through a nature-based mental health support program, fostering personal growth, community bonding and skills building for wellness and mindfulness.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $316,256
Inside Out Youth Services
Support for increasing access to culturally responsive behavioral health care for LGBTQ+ youth via partnerships extending the care network, strengthening youth leadership and peer support networks, implementing trauma-informed prevention and intervention programs, working with youth to advocate for youth rights and resources, and enhancing community connections for youth as a mental health protection strategy.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $354,999
Loving Beyond Understanding, Inc.
Support for expanding social support and safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people of all ages and intersections, increasing program staff and drop-in hours at LGBTQ+ centers, offering gender-diverse cultural awareness training to mental health and social service providers and establishing specialized counseling services, including via telehealth for rural communities.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $354,995
Montbello Organizing Committee
Support for providing diverse, culturally responsive and community-based services, including clinical therapy, training and education.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Southern Colorado Harm Reduction Association
Support for expanding and improving mental and behavioral health services for people living with substance use disorder by offering multiple services in the wellness center, such as overdose prevention, harm reduction, medication-assisted treatment, case management and wellness programming.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $350,861
Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley
Support for providing mental and behavioral health prevention services and crisis interventions to marginalized youth, and expanding programming.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $325,000
The Family Resource Center
Support for offering services for at-risk teens and families from low-income households or marginalized communities, such as supervised visitations, parenting classes, youth programming and connecting families in crisis to free essential services.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $250,000
Western Slope Native American Resource Center
Support for implementing an evidence-based, culturally responsive behavioral health program that integrates Native American cultural teachings, ceremonies and language for supporting Native Americans seeking long-term healing from mental health and substance use disorders.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $354,918
