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West Mountain News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in West Mountain!
Front Door Dental
Portable Dental Hygiene. The hygienist comes to you to provide dental cleanings, x-rays, exams, and therapeutic fillings.
CRN Usage: Receives Email/Fax Referrals
Regions Served: Mesa County, Delta/Montrose, and West Mountain
Top Pick Dental
Top Pick Dental Hygiene offers dental cleanings, periodontal therapy, x-rays, custom whitening. Independent Dental Hygiene. Accepting Colorado Medicaid, Delta Dental PPO, Cigna PPO. Accepting new patients. Accepting children and families.
CRN Usage: Receives email/fax referrals
Regions Served: Mesa County
Foundry Treatment Center
Comprehensive substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder treatment centered around the resolution of trauma, self-regulation skills, and developing recovery oriented lifestyle skills. NRT Behavioral Health offers 6 programs led by master level clinicians and a profound leadership team that
1. The Foundry Treatment Center in Steamboat is a men’s – gender specific – residential treatment facility that offers comprehensive, coordinated treatment including medical care, psychiatry, psychotherapy, fitness, and wellness coupled with gender-responsive and trauma-informed approaches. Its focus, milieu, and expertise make this program especially appropriate to men for whom previous treatment episodes have been unsuccessful.
2. Foundry Front Range – Our flagship 73-bed medically supervised detoxification and comprehensive, gender-specific Residential Trauma-Integrated Care program for adults (both male and female) experiencing substance use, co-occurring disorders, and trauma, located in the Denver suburb of Broomfield, Colorado.
3. Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (VIOP) – Our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a comprehensive telehealth option available to any adult Coloradan. Like all Foundry Steamboat programming, our IOP adheres to the Trauma-Integrated Care model developed by Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Michael Barnes. The program offers individual and group therapy with the convenience and privacy of secure telehealth.
4. Chrysalis Continuing Care – In-person IOP in the RiNo district of downtown Denver
5. Michael Barnes Family Institute – Barnes Family Institute provides trauma-integrated programming to help all participating family members address unresolved traumatic experiences and adverse life events. Barnes Family Institute emphasizes the importance of diagnosing and treating trauma affecting individuals and family systems to support better treatment outcomes and help families reduce the risks for future traumatic events including relapse. Family members frequently come to this program with their own trauma history. Some have experienced their own major traumatic experiences. Others grew up in families where loved ones suffered with addiction, trauma, mental health, or chronic disease. Most have experienced what is commonly referred to as “secondary trauma,” which is trauma that is experienced when family members deal with a loved one who is experiencing common trauma symptoms. This program is FREE to client’s in our care and available to ALL family members who want to participate.
6. Foundry Steamboat In-Person IOP
CRN Usage: Receives email referrals
Regions Served: All of Colorado
Mesa County News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Mesa County!
Front Door Dental
Portable Dental Hygiene. The hygienist comes to you to provide dental cleanings, x-rays, exams, and therapeutic fillings.
CRN Usage: Receives Email/Fax Referrals
Regions Served: Mesa County, Delta/Montrose, and West Mountain
Top Pick Dental
Top Pick Dental Hygiene offers dental cleanings, periodontal therapy, x-rays, custom whitening. Independent Dental Hygiene. Accepting Colorado Medicaid, Delta Dental PPO, Cigna PPO. Accepting new patients. Accepting children and families.
CRN Usage: Receives email/fax referrals
Regions Served: Mesa County
Foundry Treatment Center
Comprehensive substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder treatment centered around the resolution of trauma, self-regulation skills, and developing recovery oriented lifestyle skills. NRT Behavioral Health offers 6 programs led by master level clinicians and a profound leadership team that
1. The Foundry Treatment Center in Steamboat is a men’s – gender specific – residential treatment facility that offers comprehensive, coordinated treatment including medical care, psychiatry, psychotherapy, fitness, and wellness coupled with gender-responsive and trauma-informed approaches. Its focus, milieu, and expertise make this program especially appropriate to men for whom previous treatment episodes have been unsuccessful.
2. Foundry Front Range – Our flagship 73-bed medically supervised detoxification and comprehensive, gender-specific Residential Trauma-Integrated Care program for adults (both male and female) experiencing substance use, co-occurring disorders, and trauma, located in the Denver suburb of Broomfield, Colorado.
3. Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (VIOP) – Our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a comprehensive telehealth option available to any adult Coloradan. Like all Foundry Steamboat programming, our IOP adheres to the Trauma-Integrated Care model developed by Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Michael Barnes. The program offers individual and group therapy with the convenience and privacy of secure telehealth.
4. Chrysalis Continuing Care – In-person IOP in the RiNo district of downtown Denver
5. Michael Barnes Family Institute – Barnes Family Institute provides trauma-integrated programming to help all participating family members address unresolved traumatic experiences and adverse life events. Barnes Family Institute emphasizes the importance of diagnosing and treating trauma affecting individuals and family systems to support better treatment outcomes and help families reduce the risks for future traumatic events including relapse. Family members frequently come to this program with their own trauma history. Some have experienced their own major traumatic experiences. Others grew up in families where loved ones suffered with addiction, trauma, mental health, or chronic disease. Most have experienced what is commonly referred to as “secondary trauma,” which is trauma that is experienced when family members deal with a loved one who is experiencing common trauma symptoms. This program is FREE to client’s in our care and available to ALL family members who want to participate.
6. Foundry Steamboat In-Person IOP
CRN Usage: Receives email referrals
Regions Served: All of Colorado
Delta/ Montrose/ Gunnison News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Montrose/Delta/Gunnison!
Top Pick Dental
Top Pick Dental Hygiene offers dental cleanings, periodontal therapy, x-rays, custom whitening. Independent Dental Hygiene. Accepting Colorado Medicaid, Delta Dental PPO, Cigna PPO. Accepting new patients. Accepting children and families.
CRN Usage: Receives email/fax referrals
Regions Served: Mesa County
Front Door Dental
Portable Dental Hygiene. The hygienist comes to you to provide dental cleanings, x-rays, exams, and therapeutic fillings.
CRN Usage: Receives Email/Fax Referrals
Regions Served: Mesa County, Delta/Montrose, and West Mountain
Foundry Treatment Center
Comprehensive substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder treatment centered around the resolution of trauma, self-regulation skills, and developing recovery oriented lifestyle skills. NRT Behavioral Health offers 6 programs led by master level clinicians and a profound leadership team that
1. The Foundry Treatment Center in Steamboat is a men’s – gender specific – residential treatment facility that offers comprehensive, coordinated treatment including medical care, psychiatry, psychotherapy, fitness, and wellness coupled with gender-responsive and trauma-informed approaches. Its focus, milieu, and expertise make this program especially appropriate to men for whom previous treatment episodes have been unsuccessful.
2. Foundry Front Range – Our flagship 73-bed medically supervised detoxification and comprehensive, gender-specific Residential Trauma-Integrated Care program for adults (both male and female) experiencing substance use, co-occurring disorders, and trauma, located in the Denver suburb of Broomfield, Colorado.
3. Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (VIOP) – Our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a comprehensive telehealth option available to any adult Coloradan. Like all Foundry Steamboat programming, our IOP adheres to the Trauma-Integrated Care model developed by Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Michael Barnes. The program offers individual and group therapy with the convenience and privacy of secure telehealth.
4. Chrysalis Continuing Care – In-person IOP in the RiNo district of downtown Denver
5. Michael Barnes Family Institute – Barnes Family Institute provides trauma-integrated programming to help all participating family members address unresolved traumatic experiences and adverse life events. Barnes Family Institute emphasizes the importance of diagnosing and treating trauma affecting individuals and family systems to support better treatment outcomes and help families reduce the risks for future traumatic events including relapse. Family members frequently come to this program with their own trauma history. Some have experienced their own major traumatic experiences. Others grew up in families where loved ones suffered with addiction, trauma, mental health, or chronic disease. Most have experienced what is commonly referred to as “secondary trauma,” which is trauma that is experienced when family members deal with a loved one who is experiencing common trauma symptoms. This program is FREE to client’s in our care and available to ALL family members who want to participate.
6. Foundry Steamboat In-Person IOP
CRN Usage: Receives email referrals
Regions Served: All of Colorado
Helpful Resources for November 2024
from the Colorado Regional Health Connector Program–>
Funding Opportunities
- Funding (due 12/12) Check out the opening of this federal opportunity with a wide range of potential applications, it is available to local governments, CBOS, and other local/regional organizations, but not state governments. EPA has funded regional grantmaking organizations to “alleviate much of the burden that the federal grants process places on small, resource-constrained community-based organizations supporting underserved communities and marginalized populations.” The $40 million allotted for Region 8 will be administered by Mountains and Plains Environmental Justice Grants Hub (https://mapejgrants.org/)
- 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 (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
- Modulesabout Value-Based Payment Models
- 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
- Join the Colorado Public Health Workforce Collaborative on November 19th from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. MT for a deep dive discussion on recruitment, retention, career pathways, workforce data, and current events affecting the public health workforce. Sparked by workforce needs that emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Collaborative has convened a partnership of organizations providing structure and support for the field of public health. The Collaborative has brought the workforce blueprint to life and is now launching implementation strategies and toolkits to support the capacity of partners and communities. Gain valuable insights during this virtual roundtable, featuring a presentation from Trust for America’s Health concerning the future public health workforce. Automated closed captions and captions in multiple languages available. Open to Colorado-based organizations, PHIG recipients, and the general public. Registration link.
- National Center for Farmworker’s Health is hosting a series of Learning Collaboratives. More information can be found here.
- Sources of Strength is offering multiple upcoming information sessions and webinars. Details and registration information can be found on the Sources of Strength Events webpage.
- Mark your calendar and plan to join The 2024 Colorado Food is Medicine Summit. This one-day event brings together policy and practice leaders from across the state to engage in insightful discussions and explore strategies to increase access to essential nutrition programs. Join us at The Summit and help continue this vital momentum! Registration details and cost to follow. Event Details: Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 8am-4pm, History Colorado Center
News & Resources:
- Join the Healthy Communities Unit’s Virtual Community of Practice on November 12 @ 1 PM to hear about Affordable Housing Legislation in Colorado. KC McFerson, Senior Planner from the Department of Local Affairs, will be talking to us about Housing Affordability, Quality, and the recently passed State legislation. Fill out this form to get signed up for these quarterly sessions.
- Listening sessions are being held by the Colorado Commision on Aging’s Age Friendly Communities Subcommittee. They will be offered virtually across 5 regions of CO. See the attached flyer starting with “CCOA”
- 2024 issue of the AgrAbility Harvest newsletter in PDF format. A screen-reader friendly version is available at http://www.agrability.org/harvest/agrability-harvest-2024/. Topics include:
- Hats Tell Stories
- Finding a Way Forward: Limited Sight Doesn’t Limit Determination
- Assistive Technology: Skid-Steer Loaders and Accessories
- New Resources on Farm Shops, Drones, and Worksite Assessments
- 2025 AgrAbility National Training Workshop in Los Cruces, New Mexico
- Parent and Family Wellness Center Perinatal Wellness Check-In. The Parent and Family Wellness Center is offering free wellness check-ins to pregnant and postpartum folks throughout Colorado. These 20-30 minute video sessions with a specially-trained mental health clinician provide psychoeducation about PMADs (perinatal mood and anxiety and disorders) and help folks understand and mitigate their risk factors. During your free 1:1 video session, a clinician will help identify what stressors you may have, check-in on your relationships, and educate you about how pregnancy and postpartum can affect your mood. And if you want more support, we’ll help set that up. To schedule a session visit: parentfamilywellness.com/perinatal-check-in or email info@parentfamilywellness.com