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Increasing mental illness among veterans
We often hear about veterans who sustained serious physical injuries while serving in the military. We rarely hear about those who are dealing with mental illness, which is on the rise.
ABC7 News story: READ MORE

Mother fights system that undid years of work on son’s mental illness
As he headed for prison just over a year ago, Chad Childers feared the doctors there would take away the prescription drugs that silenced the voices in his head and kept his depression at bay.
The Grand Rapids Press article: READ MORE

Coping with bipolar disease
Woman overcomes stigma of mental illness, raises a family, has a job.
VICTORIA ADVOCATE article: READ MORE

“Where Do I Start? Who Do I Call?”
Parent to Parent of Colorado would like to share a two page resource with you.  It’s called “Where Do I Start? Who Do I Call?” and it’s a compilation of state resources for parents of children with disabilities.

In addition to this resource, Parent to Parent of Colorado offers the following free resources to families:

Please know that the ‘Where Do I Start?’ document is also available for downloading on our website in English.
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Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Guide
This Resource Guide is developed for TBI care coordinators, children with TBI and their families. A resource Guide for adult survivors of TBI is also available. Call 866-245-6600.
This Resource Book is a result of the collaborative efforts of Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs (HCP), Colorado Connections, a division of Denver Options, and Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund in Colorado Department of Human Services.
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In search of the good old nervous breakdown
Everyone from actors to housewives used to have them, so what were they?
MSNBC.com article: READ MORE

Depression in Black America: Coming out of the shadows
Cyndi Barriero often thought of killing herself. Once, it took her three hours to convince herself not to do it. “There was a period in my life when it became a hobby, finding ways to do it. But it wasn’t a game; I was serious,” she told the Florida Courier.
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Homeless, beaten, attempted suicide — yet he’s grateful
Life is hard enough for most people, but Jon Grate has a few more challenges than most. The 61-year-old Chicago native has been treated for paranoid schizophrenia, depression, panic and anxiety attacks, mania, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He has heard voices in his head since he was 4.
Quad-Cities Online article: READ MORE

A New Mental Health Parity Brochure is available.
What are the “Parity” Laws? Mental health parity refers to providing the same insurance coverage for mental health treatment as that offered for medical and surgical conditions. Colorado law requires certain group health plans to provide the same benefits for the illnesses and disorders listed on the What’s New panel of this brochure as are provided for any other medical illness.

This means that your benefits for these conditions must be the same as benefits for other physical conditions.

This includes:

Click the link below to view the brochure:
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Family’s battle with mental illness
Eli and Lorraine Kaplan talk about their son’s diagnosis of schizophrenia and why they want to help others break their silence. Video from: NBC’s Today Show on 2/7/08