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Episode 18: July 2024

Network-Wide CRN User News

SDoH AHCM
now available to all CRN partners!

 Accountable Health Communities Model

The Accountable Health Communities Model AHCM is a Social Determents of Health screener that addresses critical resource gaps between providers, essential services, and community resources to improve health outcomes for people with social health needs. The AHCM Screener helps identify and address needs for food, housing, transportation, utilities, and interpersonal safety.

The AHCM screening tool is now available in CRN for Network Partners upon request. Please reach out to Tess McInnis, Jeff Stoddart, or your Community Advisor for more information about utilizing the screener in CRN.

CRN Pro-Tip

Resource Directory Search Results

To get the best results when searching for a resource in the CRN Resource Directory, we recommend you remove the Zip Code from the “Search by Keyworks or add Demographic Criteria” of the Services Categories. Removing the Zip Code (which automatically populates from the client’s profile) will allow for results from a greater geographic area within your region.  Many cities have multiple zip codes, so we highly recommend removing the Zip Codes so you can search the entire region.

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Network-Wide Utilization Stats
(to see region-specific numbers, scroll to the bottom)

Regional News

West Mountain

Tina Hughes,
Community Advisor
West Mountain Region
Contact

West Mountain News

Community Spotlight West Mountain

All services are free and available to anyone

A Way Out provides free bilingual clinical and peer support services to help adolescents, adults, and families who are struggling with drug and alcohol abuse in Eagle, Garfield, Pitkin, and Summit counties. All services are free and available to anyone. A Way Out provides free behavioral health assessments, counseling, timely referrals to additional programs, crisis support, and scholarships for entry into costly treatment programs, plus a year of free aftercare support as needed. Family members receive free counseling to help them cope and set boundaries around a family member actively abusing drugs and/or alcohol. Online support groups are offered in English and Spanish, and a robust Peer Support Program helps our Alumni stay active in their sobriety while connecting with others in a positive fun recovery atmosphere.

Welcome Our New CRN Partners in West Mountain!

Alcoholics Anonymous

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Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. This program provides 12-step support services. Please visit the Central Office of Western Colorado website to find your nearest meeting.

CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals

Regions: Mesa County, Delta/Montrose Region, West Mountain

AlpenGlow Resource and Support

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 Alpenglow offers non-medical, compassionate end-of-life support services for patients and families at life’s sunset. Lori Rienstra, a trained EOL Doula, offers the following services:
– Level of Care Review
– Community end-of-life education via one-on-one as well as group settings
– Education & guidance through death and grieving process
– companionship for patients and families
-Animal-assisted therapy
– Music ministry
– Life review assistance
– Legacy project assistance
– Vigil planning
– Ritual creation & guidance

CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals out of CRN

Regions Served: Mesa County, Delta, Montrose, Garfield County

A Network Partner Organization has users in CRN and may accept electronic referrals through CRN

An Associated Partner does not have users in CRN, but accepts email/fax referrals that are sent though CRN

Mesa County

Angela Rodriguez 
Community Advisor
Mesa County
Contact

Wade Montgomery
Community Advisor
Mesa County
Contact

Mesa County News

Community Spotlight Mesa County

Our impact is exponentially greater due to our emphasis on cooperative partnerships

Mutual Aid Partners is a grassroots-oriented, community-led organization focused on community building, advocacy, and education through a platform that reduces food insecurity and centers accessibility and connection between community members, resources, and organizations.

Since we started in the summer of 2020, we’ve assisted over 56,000 families through the weekly distribution of essential resources including food, clothing, hygiene essentials, period products, and facilitated access to education, health care, and shelter.

The creative collaborations we forged early on, helped us to learn that our work could catalyze sustainable change by engaging other community partners and social service agencies. Our impact is exponentially greater due to our emphasis on cooperative partnerships and our positioning of meaningful outreach through the lens of accessibility and a culturally- responsive, dignity-centered approach.

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Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Mesa County!

Alcoholics Anonymous

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Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. This program provides 12-step support services. Please visit the Central Office of Western Colorado website to find your nearest meeting.

CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals

Regions: Mesa County, Delta/Montrose Region, West Mountain

AlpenGlow Resource and Support

Website Click Here

 Alpenglow offers non-medical, compassionate end-of-life support services for patients and families at life’s sunset. Lori Rienstra, a trained EOL Doula, offers the following services:
– Level of Care Review
– Community end-of-life education via one-on-one as well as group settings
– Education & guidance through death and grieving process
– companionship for patients and families
-Animal-assisted therapy
– Music ministry
– Life review assistance
– Legacy project assistance
– Vigil planning
– Ritual creation & guidance

CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals out of CRN

Regions Served: Mesa County, Delta, Montrose, Garfield County

Senior Engagement

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Welcome to Senior Engagement, a 501(c)3 Non-Profit group. This group is meeting the needs of our community by providing resources and support to those looking to connect with the Seniors in our community. We will be sharing ideas of ways to keep the Seniors in our community engaged and creating ways to implement our goals. We will primarily focus on Seniors who are currently living/isolating in our local Senior Living Facilities and Nursing Homes – we also occasionally adopt groups that are not all Seniors, but can still benefit from our project and the community connection

CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals

Regions Served: Mesa County

Mesa County Public Library

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Many of its programs and services act as upstream mental health supports and fit in the social determinants of health. This public service is accessible to community members of all ages. Of note are the library’s Adult Learning Center that provides English language learning and GED prep classes for adults, story times are available at all locations, 8 locations throughout Mesa County, 970West Studio provides do-it-yourself access for creatives to complete projects, public computers/wifi and tech help, evening/weekend hours, volunteer opportunities, Words on Wheels home delivery service. Grand Valley Connects’ Resource Navigators work out of the Central library M-F 9-5pm.

CRN Usage: Receives email referrals from CRN

Regions Served: Mesa County

Hope of the Grand Valley

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HOPE of the Grand Valley is a local Mesa County nonprofit that was founded in 2008. Our mission is to provide support and a hand-up to hard-working parents and their children who are not receiving welfare, or housing assistance. This is a group that tends to fall through the cracks. These are people trying to break the cycle of poverty and doing their best to get ahead. It’s a situation that creates an uncertain future for both parents. We are fortunate to serve ever-increasing numbers of hard-working, low-income families. This segment of the population is growing, yet typically overlooked and often struggling. Children with parents who are making a little too much money to qualify for government assistance. We are here to give a hand up to parents who are working tirelessly, paying their bills, and doing everything in their power to provide their children with food, clothing, and shelter without public assistance. Our families are given the opportunity to take advantage of the many services and programs we have available.

CRN usage: Receives email referrals from CRN

Regions Served: Mesa County

A Network Partner Organization has users in CRN and may accept electronic referrals through CRN

An Associated Partner does not have users in CRN, but accepts email/fax referrals that are sent though CRN

Delta/ Montrose/ Gunnison

Cherie Schmitz
Senior Community Advisor
Southwest Region
Contact

Delta/ Montrose/ Gunnison News

Community Spotlight Delta/Montrose/Gunnison Region

Partners of Delta, Montrose and Ouray is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building one-to-one mentoring partnerships between young people and responsible, caring adults. Youth with a mentor in the Partners programs benefit from increased self-esteem, academic improvements, pro-socio bonding. They are also less likely to become delinquent or experiment with substance use. Having a mentor opens a world of opportunities for a youth, shaping a successful future one experience at a time. Partners serves youth ages 6 -17 that could benefit from a positive adult role model.

CRN Usage: Accepting electronic referrals

Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Montrose/Delta/Gunnison!

Alcoholics Anonymous

Website Click Here

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. This program provides 12-step support services. Please visit the Central Office of Western Colorado website to find your nearest meeting.

CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals

Regions: Mesa County, Delta/Montrose Region, West Mountain

AlpenGlow Resource and Support

Website Click Here

 Alpenglow offers non-medical, compassionate end-of-life support services for patients and families at life’s sunset. Lori Rienstra, a trained EOL Doula, offers the following services:
– Level of Care Review
– Community end-of-life education via one-on-one as well as group settings
– Education & guidance through death and grieving process
– companionship for patients and families
-Animal-assisted therapy
– Music ministry
– Life review assistance
– Legacy project assistance
– Vigil planning
– Ritual creation & guidance

CRN Use: Receiving emailed referrals out of CRN

Regions Served: Mesa County, Delta, Montrose, Garfield County

Valley Food Partnership – Local Farmacy Rx

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Valley Food Partnership is a regional non-profit working to strengthen the regional food system through education, access, and community building across the food supply chain. We offer cooking and nutrition education paired with produce vouchers, provide a beginning farmer/rancher development program, facilitate the Montrose Farmers Market, work to increase wholesale purchasing of local food, and provide an annual agricultural forum.

Local Farmacy Rx (LFRx) is a cooking and nutrition education and incentive program dedicated to increasing the consumption of local fruits and vegetables, thereby improving the health of individuals and families, for people experiencing food insecurity and/or at risk of a diet related disease. Referrals to the program come from partner health care providers and social service organizations. Participants engage in education, utilizing both Cooking Matters and participant-driven interests to learn nutrition lessons; cooking easy, budget-friendly, healthy meals; to shop and cook with local, seasonal produce; and food preservation. For every educational opportunity participants engage in, they receive $50 to spend at local food retailers. Additionally, social connections and a connection to the agricultural community is focused on.

Regions Served: Montrose

CRN Usage: Receiving Referrals in CRN

A Network Partner Organization has users in CRN and may accept electronic referrals through CRN

An Associated Partner does not have users in CRN, but accepts email/fax referrals that are sent though CRN

Helpful Resources for July 2024

from the Colorado Regional Health Connector Program–> 

Funding Opportunities 

  • Funding (due 7/12) – Community Economic Development Projects. For projects aimed at business development opportunities and creating employment for low-income individuals located in geographic areas with a demonstrated need.
  • Funding (due 8/5) – Multi-sectoral preventive interventions that address SDoH in populations that experience health disparities. This funding supports projects to test prospective multi-sectoral preventive interventions that address social determinants of health in populations that experience health disparities.
  • Funding (due 8/15) – Health Center Program New Access Point Grants. Grants to support the establishment of new health service delivery sites under the Health Center Program for underserved populations.
  • Funding (due 9/19) – Accelerating research through international network-to-network collaborations. Goals of this program are to 1) leverage prior NSF support for building research capacity towards activities that launch international research network of networks (NoN) that will lead to an accelerated advancement of an area of science after the award period and 2) recruit and foster a diverse and internationally competent US-based workforce trained in conducting and leading multi-team international collaboration. Any area funded by the National Science Foundation is eligible
  • 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.

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