Network-Wide CRN User News
Unlocking the Power of CRN Reports
Wednesday. February 19th, 12-1pm
Join us for an insightful session where we will explore the various reports available in the Community Resource Network (CRN) platform. This event will help you navigate and utilize these reports effectively to gather the critical information your organization needs.
During this session, we will cover:
- Overview of CRN Reports: A comprehensive look at the different types of reports you can generate within the CRN system.
- Best Practices: Tips and strategies for extracting the most relevant data for your organizational needs.
- Customization Options: How to tailor reports to fit specific requirements and preferences.
- Q&A Session: An opportunity to ask questions and get personalized advice on using CRN reports.
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your reporting skills and make the most out of your CRN system. We look forward to seeing you there!
Upcoming Training
Utilization
Network-Wide Utilization Stats
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Regional News
West Mountain News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in West Mountain!
Baby and Me Tobacco Free
Baby and Me Tobacco Free (BMTFP) is a psychosocial counseling program that helps pregnant people to quit smoking and stay tobacco/nicotine-free postpartum. In addition to offering 10 counseling sessions, BMTFP also utilizes financial incentives and biomonitoring feedback to support participants in their quit attempts. Postpartum, a supportive partner is also eligible to enroll. The supportive partner can be anyone who lives with the participant and is also interested in quitting tobacco/nicotine use. BMTFP provides 4 prenatal counseling sessions and 6 postnatal counseling sessions. Participants are eligible to enroll if they are less than 37 weeks pregnant and if they smoked or vaped tobacco/nicotine during their pregnancy or within the 3 months before becoming pregnant. Participants are eligible for up to $400 in incentives and supportive partners are eligible for up to $300 in incentives.
Regions Served: Statewide (Virtual Services)
CRN Usage: Accepting electronic referrals through CRN
Mesa County News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Mesa County!
LifeSong Counseling and Coaching
Life Coaching Services:
Overcoming Emotional Eating:
Do you deal with “cravings” or urges to eat when stressed, needing comfort or a momentary escape? If this sounds familiar, you may be resorting to food for an emotional diversion or a way to cope. Managing difficult emotions and looking to food can be a detrimental cycle and daunting to overcome. Having a Life Coach help you navigate this roller-coaster challenge, can have a transformational impact! You will learn practical steps to help you prioritize sustainable, effective strategies to improve overall health and well-being. Fine-tuning your thoughts and beliefs makes a significant difference in helping to conquer the triggers and emotions sabotaging your efforts to live with peace and confidence related to eating behaviors. With gentle conversations and encouraging accountability, better overall manageability for optimal health is in your grasp.!
Purpose With Passion:
Living with clarity in meaning and purpose can often get lost in the day-to-day demands of life. How often do you have negative self-talk or limit yourself to what you believe is possible? It is so important to make the most of the present to intentionally pursue where you want to go! Life coaching will help you navigate your path to success as you determine your values, overcome mental barriers, tap into your reservoirs of potential, and build confidence. With life coaching, you will gain sustainable solutions to establish a newly defined purpose, energized with a genuine-impassioned vision.
Regions Served: Mesa County
CRN Usage: Receives Email Referrals
Delta/ Montrose/ Gunnison News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Montrose/Delta/Gunnison!
Baby and Me Tobacco Free
Baby and Me Tobacco Free (BMTFP) is a psychosocial counseling program that helps pregnant people to quit smoking and stay tobacco/nicotine-free postpartum. In addition to offering 10 counseling sessions, BMTFP also utilizes financial incentives and biomonitoring feedback to support participants in their quit attempts. Postpartum, a supportive partner is also eligible to enroll. The supportive partner can be anyone who lives with the participant and is also interested in quitting tobacco/nicotine use. BMTFP provides 4 prenatal counseling sessions and 6 postnatal counseling sessions. Participants are eligible to enroll if they are less than 37 weeks pregnant and if they smoked or vaped tobacco/nicotine during their pregnancy or within the 3 months before becoming pregnant. Participants are eligible for up to $400 in incentives and supportive partners are eligible for up to $300 in incentives.
Regions Served: Statewide (Virtual Services)
CRN Usage: Accepting electronic referrals through CRN
Insight Medical Counseling, LLC
Blended physical/mental health practice focusing on relieving chronic pain and other chronic symptoms such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, etc.
Regions Served: State of Colorado
CRN Usage: Receives email/fax referrals
Helpful Resources for January 2025
from the Colorado Regional Health Connector Program–>
Funding Opportunities
- Funding (due 1/27/2025) – HRSA Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program. Up to 50 total grants for a 4-year project period. This program provides grant funding to expand and enhance the delivery of health care services to promote outreach in rural communities. Eligible applicants include all domestic public and private, nonprofit, and for-profit entities with demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations. Applicants are also required to propose projects that serve exclusively HRSA-designated rural areas and be a part of a network comprised of three or more organizations with at least two-thirds or 66% percent network organizations physically located in a HRSA-designated rural area.
- Funding (due 2/26/25) – Strategic prevention framework. The purpose of this program is to help reduce the onset and progression of substance misuse and its related problems by supporting the development and delivery of community based substance misuse and prevention and mental health promotion services.
- Funding (due 10/1/2025) – The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is pleased to announce the release of an Application for Reimbursement through the Prescription Accessibility Grant Program on December 11, 2024. The Prescription Accessibility Grant Program was created to award hardship grants to pharmacies that face financial barriers to complying with House Bill 24-1115. CDPHE will award approximately $65,000 to pharmacies, with a maximum award of $1,500 per individual grant recipient. Grant funds must be used exclusively to purchase equipment that creates accessible prescription labels. Eligibility for this funding is as follows:
- Pharmacies registered and based in Colorado.
- Independent pharmacies
- An ‘independent pharmacy’ is defined as a prescription drug outlet privately owned by at least one licensed pharmacist with no ownership interest by or affiliation with a chain or publicly owned pharmacy.
- Ineligible entities
- Publicly traded pharmacies (Walgreens, CVS, etc) are not eligible for this funding opportunity.
- Pharmacies that meet eligibility criteria and have purchased labeling equipment that complies with the new accessibility requirements are encouraged to apply for grant reimbursement. The application deadline is October 1, 2025. Review the application requirements and apply for grant reimbursement.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – Hearst Foundations Health Grants. The Hearst Foundations provide grants for organizations working to address access to healthcare for high-need populations, healthcare professional shortages, evolving healthcare demands, and medical research.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – National Grassroots Organizing Program. Two-year unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small, constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the US and its territories.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – Economic Development Assistance. Funding to support the implementation of regional economic development, including public works projects and job creation projects. Past projects have included funding for water and wastewater projects in hospitals and healthcare facilities and road infrastructure projects that would support the expansion of healthcare facilities. Rural tribal and other underserved communities are of priority.
- Funding (applications accepted on an ongoing basis) – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Grants for innovative projects that are working to build health equity, ensuring that everyone has access to the care they need and all families have the opportunity to make healthier choices.
Webinars, Trainings & Conferences
- Training – Cannabis Education Prevention Online Training Suite. This suite of trainings will provide and support trusted adults with the tools to understand the many aspects of recreational cannabis in the context of youth prevention.
- Colorado Community Champion Coaching – Coaching support for organizations that work with young people, this is focused on cannabis prevention.
- Training – Become a Systems Thinker – This module highlights the importance of systems thinking in public health, where challenges often involve multiple factors that influence each other. Participants will be introduced to practical tools designed to help them apply systems thinking in their work. (free)
- Webinar – Advancing Healthy Aging. All webinars will have live Spanish interpretation. And will be posting all of the webinars in Spanish and English on this website (https://engagement.colostate.edu/health-extension/). Be sure to register and mark your calendars!
- November 21, 2024: Exploring Care and Support Services, an education program by the Alzheimer’s Association®
- December 12, 2024: Beyond Burnout: Empowering Caregivers with Dr. Deana Davalos, CSU Columbine Center for Healthy Aging
- January 23, 2025: Flipping the Script on Aging with Dr. Allyson Brothers, Colorado State University
- February 20, 2025: Strengthening Intergenerational Connections with Dr. Christine Fruhauf, Colorado State University
- March 13, 2025: Ahead of the Curve: Advance Care Planning with Cheryl Noble, Larimer County Extension and Kat Laws, UC Health Aspen Club
- April 17, 2025: Bridging the Digital Divide: Advancing Digital Equity for Older Adults with Dayton Romero Older Adult Technology Services & AARP Senior Planet
- May 15, 2025: Advancing Inclusive Older Adult Programming: Success Stories from the Field panel facilitated by Ginger Williams, MHA
- FREE – FACILITATION: FROM BRAINSTORMING TO DECISION MAKING – Unlock the secrets to effective group decision-making with our engaging three-part workshop! Dive deep into hands-on practice and gain valuable tools to enhance your facilitation skills. Each interactive session is designed to guide you through facilitation techniques, brainstorming strategies, and methods for evaluating and finalizing ideas. Registration closes on January 9, 2025. Learn More & Register » starts Jan. 24, 2025, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM MT
- 2025 Colorado School of Public Health Practice-Based Learning & Career Expo! This year we will have two in-person events. One will be on Wednesday, February 26 at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the other will be on Thursday, February 27 in Fort Collins at the Colorado State University Campus. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with top talent from the Colorado School of Public Health and receive a FREE professional headshot. This expo provides a platform to showcase practicum, capstone, and job opportunities. It’s the perfect chance to recruit future public health professionals and establish relationships that can help you grow your team and advance your work in the public health sector. 🔗 Register here to reserve your space at the expo(s)!
- In-Person CU Anschutz Medical Campus Event Details:
📅 Date: Wednesday, February 26
📍 Location: CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Education 2 Bridge
⏰ Time: Expo: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Lunch: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Provided) - In-Person Fort Collins Event Details:
📅 Date: Thursday, February 27
📍 Location: Colorado State University, Lory Student Center, Room 386
⏰ Time: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM (lunch provided) - Parking details and a code will be provided for attendees when the event gets closer.
- 🔗 Register here to reserve your space at the expo(s)!
- If you cannot attend in-person, but still want us to promote your opportunities please fill out this form.
- If you have any questions please email us at Coloradosph.careers@cuanschutz.edu
- In-Person CU Anschutz Medical Campus Event Details:
News & Resources:
- Save our Safety Net! In direct response to the Medicaid Unwind, a group of providers are getting together to support continued Medicaid benefits and clinic supports through these efforts. A few of you have reached out about this and/or brought up the concerns that are happening with safety net clinic closures, hope this resource helps!
- Know your rights!
- Know Your Rights Under the U.S. Constitution – No Matter Who Is President (available in 4 languages)
- Know Your Rights: Is It Safe to Apply for Health Insurance or Seek Health Care? (available in Spanish)
- Health Care Providers and Immigration Enforcement: Know Your Rights, Know Your Patients’ Rights
- Know Your Rights: Abortion Access for Immigrants (available in 8 languages)
- Privacy Protections in Selected Federal Benefits Programs
- LGBTQ+ Resources for Policy + Legislation:
- LGBTQ+ Rights
- LGBTQ+ Youth
- Election Wellness Guide
- Trevor Project Finding Support and Building Community Post Election
- Trevor Project Coping with Intense Emotions Around the Presidential Election
- Transgender Law Center Care Package
- Learn more about the Skrimetti supreme court case on this podcast: TransLash Podcast
- Connect to Health – Colorado is launching a telehealth pilot program to increase local access to health services, from Julesburg to Dolores. In a collaborative effort between the Colorado State Library, the Office of eHealth Innovation, and the American Heart Association, 23 rural libraries will receive funding and support to implement initiatives to increase telehealth access for their communities. Libraries could choose to implement tele-hubs – a private space within the library that patrons can reserve to connect virtually with a healthcare provider or participaparticipate in virtual wellness services. These spaces will have the equipment and internet connectivity needed to support virtual services, and patrons can get assistance with the technology from library staff. Alternatively, some libraries chose to implement “telehealth kits,” so that patrons who have adequate connectivity at home can borrow the equipment and connect with a provider in the comfort of their home. Each tele-hub and “telehealth kit” will include blood pressure cuffs and scales donated by the American Heart Association.
- Through HCPF’s coordinated efforts with policymakers, other state agencies, providers, and patient advocates, Colorado has prioritized continuous eligibility as a way to ensure that Medicaid members are getting timely access to the health care they need with as few barriers as possible. Legislation from 2023 – Continuous Eligibility Medical Coverage (HB23-1300) – laid the groundwork to expand Colorado’s continuous eligibility policies and also requires Colorado to design an implementation plan during 2025 to operationalize the approved amendment by January 1, 2026.
- Traihead’s Annual Report 2024-25 – https://trailhead.institute/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Trailhead-Institute-2024-2025-Annual-Report.pdf