Playing catch-up with mental health funding

​Buoyed by American Rescue Plan Act funds — and perhaps chastened by their state ranking dead last in at least one of Mental Health America’s 2022 measures — Colorado lawmakers got serious about mental health this spring.
 
In advance of a local presentation with NAMI Colorado executive director Ray Merenstein, Mental Health Colorado’s Moe Keller shared a Democratic Legislative Caucus breakdown of how the Legislature allocated $450 million to mental health. Here is that breakdown, with summaries of bills designed to add residential beds, address workforce shortages, divert people from the criminal justice system and more.

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