Expanding Access to Behavioral Health

Expanding Access to Behavioral Health is sponsored by The Colorado Trust. The Colorado Trust is funding 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.

_Photo by Joe Mahoney / Special to The Colorado Trust_ 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:**$351,593 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:**$490,000 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:**$480,027 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:**$490,000 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:**$489,242 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:**$399,538 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:**$489,682 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:**$489,761 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:**$490,000 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:**$360,576 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:**$490,000 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:**$488,642 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:**$450,913 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:**$497,559 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:**$510,000