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Series
Blueprints promising programs fact sheet volume FS-BP03
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
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...
Description
Colorado LINKS for Mental Health (Linking Interagency Networks for Kids Services) is an initiative seeking to create partnerships between state agencies and community groups working in the kids' mental health system. The purpose of the guidebook is to enable organizations to identify other planning groups working on youth health, mental health and co-occurring issues, so as to create opportunities to collaboration and avoid duplication in efforts....
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The purpose of the Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist (ECMHS) program is to increase the availability of mental health services to young children, birth through 5 and provide consultation and coaching/training to families and early learning programs. The ECMHS program focuses on developing and strengthening the social emotional skills of young children through timely screening and assessment, increasing the parent and the early learning provider's...