Tag: Vincent Atchity
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New commission creates statewide standards for Colorado jails
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save What set of standards are jails held to in the state of Colorado? Until recently, the answer was none. In 2022, Rep. Judy Amabile, D-Boulder, sought to rectify that by creating the Colorado Jail Standards Commission. The goal of the commission, in Amabile’s words, is…
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Mental health — and care options — in Colorado remain ‘distressing’ after years in survival mode
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado no longer ranks as the worst state in the nation for the prevalence of mental illness and access to treatment for adults, a spot it held in the 2022 State of Mental Health in America report.— The recently released 2023 report from Mental Health…
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Colorado children’s mental health leaders plead for pandemic recovery funding
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Children’s mental health advocates want a fair share of Colorado’s federal pandemic recovery money that has yet to be allocated, they announced Tuesday during a virtual discussion spearheaded by Children’s Hospital Colorado. “There is a continued sense of being overwhelmed as a system, and it’s…
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Spike in suicides at Colorado jail highlights shortfalls of mental health care for those behind bars
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After a 33-year-old man took his life last week while incarcerated at the El Paso County jail, the number of suicides in the facility since 2019 rose to five, after nearly a decade when none…
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‘See something, say something’ still good advice when it comes to mental health concerns
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save How can someone walk into a grocery store and randomly kill 10 innocent strangers? There’s no simple answer, experts say, but there are a few things they know. Mass shooters often are socially isolated, or loners, and have some sort of grievance, said Susan Payne,…
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Colorado Springs-area children, teens suffer mentally from pandemic pressures
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As Lexi Rowland’s schoolwork piled up and her friends down the block seemed like a plane trip away, a serious funk descended on the Discovery Canyon Campus High School senior. Loneliness reached in, grabbed on…