Mental Health America Of Colorado

Public policy and strategic initiatives: the organization presses insurers and regulators to comply with state and federal law - including the guarantee of mental health as an essential benefit, the adequacy of provider networks, and the enforcement of mental health parity. The organization also champions measures to integrate mental health care into the primary care system; to address the shortage of mental health professionals, especially in rural colorado; and to disentangle mental health and criminal justice.

Safer: the organization provides short term housing in a hotel setting with the goals of health stabilization, basic resource access assistance, employment assistance and next step housing for unhoused individuals experiencing mental health and/or substance use concerns at risk of or experiencing justice system involvement.