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"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning...
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Access and availability to behavioral health crisis services continues to be a gap in Colorado's behavioral health system. The goals of crisis services are to improve access to the most appropriate treatment resources and to decrease the utilization of hospital emergency departments, jails, prisons, and homeless programs for behavioral health emergencies.
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Comprehensive crisis response and stabilization services have long been considered a crucial element of public behavioral health systems. There is a considerable body of evidence suggesting that comprehensive crisis services can improve outcomes for consumers, reduce inpatient hospital stays and costs, and facilitate access to other necessary behavioral health services and supports. In many communities, crisis response services also perform important...
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"Do you ever feel like you’re losing your way around your own brain? Words you know vanish off your tongue, and you write down all your appointments so you don’t risk forgetting them. These changes can be alarming, but the good news is they don’t have to be permanent. In How to Keep Your Brain Young, bestselling Christian counselor H. Norman Wright breaks down the basics of how your brain works and gives you easy yet successful strategies for...
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Small changes work. In this practical ebook, wellness expert Brett Blumenthal reveals how to hone in on the mind as the foundation of overall health and well-being. She presents one small, achievable change every week—from developing music appreciation to eating brain-boosting foods, practicing mono-tasking, incorporating play, and more. The accumulation of these lifestyle changes ultimately leads to improved memory, less stress, increased productivity,...
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The Colorado State Penitentiary Offenders with Mental Illness (CSP OMI) program will house and provide more intensive treatment to offenders who are classified as administrative segregation and who have been identified as having mental illnesses. Offenders who have medical problems or require ADA accommodations will be included in the program.
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In 2011 Colorado received a one-year system of care expansion planning grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a blueprint for expanding the approach statewide. The system of care model is a noncategorical approach to improving and integrating services and supports for children and youth with serious behavioral health challenges and their families. Colorado will focus on children with serious behavioral...
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This memorandum covers the actions the Colorado General Assembly has taken to strengthen Colorado's behavioral health care system, including creating the Behavioral Health Administration, strengthening the behavioral health care workforce, increasing rural health care access, and treating and preventing substance abuse issues.
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The availability of an appropriate workforce is critical to the delivery of mental health consultation in early childhood settings. Consultants need to have knowledge and skills specific to early childhood mental health, early care and education, typical and atypical child development and behavior, and working in a consultative role. The self-evaluation checklist describes competencies that professionals need to provide effective mental health consultation...
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The Child Mental Health Treatment Act (CMHTA) was enacted through H.B. 99-1116 to address the nationwide issue of families struggling to access mental health services for their children. In many cases, families were subjected to unnecessary legal and system involvement solely to obtain necessary mental health services for their children. Contributing factors to this issue included public and private health insurance limitations, inadequate supplies...
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It is the policy of the Colorado Department of Human Services to promote the provision of safe and adequate 24-hour care of children in an environment designed to meet the physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs of the children at those times in the life of such children when the child's family of origin is unable or unwilling to provide adequate care. It is also the policy of the Department to require 24- hour care providers to meet standards...