Mental & Behavioral Health

The initiative saw enough success that it was recently extended, with more funding on the way.

A novel National Park Service program is hoping to address Mesa County’s high suicide rate.

Two new initiatives provide mental and behavioral health support to patients and providers in a state where unintentional overdose and suicide are the two leading causes of death for new moms.

High suicide rates and a study completed in 2024 highlighted struggles among the aging population in rural central Colorado.

A southwest Colorado nonprofit is working to address the high levels of substance use and mental health challenges in the restaurant industry.

Co-responders Tim Dellett and Connie Brydges regularly visit a sanctioned campsite in Alamosa, doing whatever they can to help the dozens of unhoused people staying there.

The leading causes of death among pregnant and postpartum people in Colorado are now suicide and accidental drug overdose.

Has a 2020 state law resulted in fewer separations of parents and newborns when substance use is involved?

There are only seven inpatient treatment centers for Medicaid-eligible pregnant people in Colorado. Slots at all of them are scarce.

Historically, “aging out” has led to numerous adverse outcomes, but Colorado is working to expand services and reverse that trend.