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Expanding Access to Behavioral Health

Photo by Joe Mahoney / Special to The Colorado Trust

Overview

The Colorado Trust is committed to addressing systemic inequities in mental and behavioral health by increasing access to high-quality, culturally responsive care for communities facing barriers to health and well-being. Through the Expanding Access to Behavioral Health initiative, The Colorado Trust is funding 15 entities to reduce gaps in service availability, enhance service delivery models, and build community-based networks that offer holistic support for mental and behavioral health, particularly for historically underserved populations. The Colorado Trust is supporting strategies to overcome structural barriers such as geographic isolation, stigma surrounding mental health, language and cultural mismatches, and affordability.

Grantees

A Little Help

Support for expanding mental health services for older adults in Colorado through various activities and groups, offering free mental health counseling, group therapy, and educational workshops for older adults along the Denver and northern I-25 corridor.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $252,352

Alianza NORCO

Support for improving the mental and physical health, economic stability, and community integration of low-income immigrants in Larimer and Weld counties through the provision of peer-to-peer support groups, health insurance enrollment, debt navigation services, women’s health referrals, and holistic wraparound navigation support.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

Ardent Grove Foundation

Support for providing low-cost counseling for people with eating disorders, disordered eating and body image concerns, offering trauma-informed mental health care, specialized training, clinical supervision and wraparound services to meet the needs of this underserved population.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $345,502

Chaffee County Public Health

Support for addressing the behavioral health crisis in Chaffee County and surrounding areas through the provision of behavioral health navigation and coordination, harm reduction services, mental health first aid training and other behavioral health initiatives.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence

Support for funding, coaching and job placement assistance for 10 psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner students from underserved rural communities and communities of color in Colorado. For every year of funded support, the mental health nurse practitioners will serve for two years as behavioral health providers in designated communities.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $354,242

Dream Catcher Therapy Center, Inc.

Support for providing equine-assisted psychotherapy for clients in Delta and Montrose counties with trauma, abuse or other mental health issues, and offering supervision for therapist candidates and interns.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $299,200

Eagle Valley Community Foundation

Support for expanding access to behavioral health services (for those with access and mobility concerns) and delivering bilingual and culturally competent care in Eagle County and surrounding areas through the use of the Mobile Intercultural Resource Alliance bus.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $352,682

Gunnison Valley Health Foundation

Support for hiring five clinical therapists to work in schools in Gunnison County to offer evidence-based interventions, crisis support, and individual, group and family therapy to students and their families.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $354,761

Healthy Archuleta

Support for expanding mental and behavioral health care access for Spanish-speaking households in Archuleta County by training primary care providers in culturally sensitive practices, developing a referral system for Spanish-language households, providing training for bilingual navigators, supporting bilingual navigators in becoming certified Spanish-language medical Interpreters, increasing access and utilization of telehealth services in languages other than English, and establishing access to a bilingual mental health provider.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

La Plata Youth Services, Inc.

Support for expanding the Communities-in-Schools Partnership Program, which provides school-based mental and behavioral health services to La Plata County youth who face barriers to access. The project offers individual and group therapy, professional development for school staff, and collaboration with specialized community partners.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $250,316

La Raza Services, Inc.

Support for implementing Proyecto Adelante, a culturally and linguistically responsive behavioral health program that will provide bilingual therapy, youth mental wellness programming, holistic healing practices, and community resources for the Latino/a/x community members in the Denver metro area.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

Las Animas-Huerfano Counties District Health Department

Support for a behavioral telehealth program to provide care and facilitate client-provider interactions for people with mental and behavioral health needs as well as youth or adults with opioid or other substance use disorders. The project creates two behavioral telehealth spaces in Walsenburg and Trinidad and contracts with experienced providers specializing in telehealth delivery.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $353,643

Regis University

Support for training five bilingual play therapists to serve the Spanish-speaking immigrant community in the Denver metro area with no-cost play and family therapy sessions, and the requisite and supervision and certification.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $328,335

Second Chance Center, Inc.

Support for expanding behavioral health services for people leaving jail and re-entering society in the Denver metro area in order to reduce recidivism, improve mental health and substance misuse recovery, and increase access to vital resources and wellness programs.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $352,953

Transformative Justice Project of Colorado

Support for expanding mental and behavioral health services for system-involved youth across the state by increasing service capacity, extending geographic reach and enhancing jail-based support, especially in underserved areas.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

Staff

Alejandra Hernandez

Program Manager

Learn about the health equity issues affecting Coloradans at Collective Colorado, a publication of The Colorado Trust.