Mental Health and Domestic Violence Services (ARPA Funding)

988 Suicide Prevention Hotline
Proposed Investment: $140,000
Description: Operational support for Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners, Colorado’s operator of the Crisis hotline and Suicide Prevention hotline, during its transition to operation of the 988-suicide prevention hotline. 

Crisis Stabilization Unit 
Proposed Investment: $540,000
Description: Provision of guaranteed bed space for Douglas County residents in a youth Crisis Stabilization Unit

Care Compact  
Proposed Investment: $1,991,065.00
Description: The Care Compact is a project of the Douglas County Mental Health Initiative that formally links existing care coordination service providers through a streamlined network to serve vulnerable individuals with complex mental health, substance use disorder, and intellectual and developmental disability needs. The Care Compact partner organizations are as follows: Douglas County Administration (The Care Compact Navigator), Douglas County Department of Human Services, Developmental Pathways, Rocky Mountain Human Services, the Community Response Teams, Signal Behavioral Health Network, The Rock Church, Centura Health, HealthONE, All Health Network, Colorado Access, and Julota. By connecting these systems of care, the Care Compact reduces the duplication of services, decreases reliance on emergency and acute care services, reduces criminal justice involvement, removes barriers to care and improves access, prevents gaps in treatment, and streamlines information sharing. With additional funding, TCC can help the network build capacity to serve more Douglas County residents needing enhanced support in meeting their whole-person health needs.  

Community Response Team Expansion
Proposed Investment: $1,800,000
Description: The Community Response Team is a unique response team of fire/EMS, law enforcement, and a clinician responding at the scene when mental health is the primary issue. There are four teams, each with a case manager. Expansion to six adult teams (eight teams total) would allow seven-day-a-week coverage, a need repeatedly heard from partners. The expansion would include a second youth CRT to expand coverage to include all schools within the county.  

Douglas County ARPA funded grant programs: $1,372.169.65 over three years to seven beneficiaries and $127,830.35 reserved for Veteran and Men’s mental health

•  The Aspen Effect (TAE) – Youth resilience and leadership, strengths-based, mentorship through a unique animal environment.  Grant funds will be used to convert Executive Director from volunteer to paid,  hire a project director,  boarding and care for TAE’s animals, a key element of their program operations.
  Total Award: $267,420
  Timeframe: 2023-2025
• Castle Rock Pride – Building a supportive community for LGBTQIA+ residents through support groups, educational opportunities, and community events. Grant funds will be used to expand support groups to Parker and Highlands Ranch, and with expansion changing DBA to Douglas County Pride.  Also, informal monthly social group for children 8-13 and their families, including structured, professional therapist facilitated monthly meeting for youth 14-21.
  Total Award: $26,664
  Timeframe: 2023-2025
• The Happy Crew – Peer to peer support, resilience, stigma reduction, community, education, training and coping skills in a novel, comfortable setting- Kakou Coffee House.  Grant funds will assist in securing a building for Kakou Coffee House.
  Total Award:  $240,000
  Timeframe: 2024 (the contract will be reviewed by the Board of County Commissioners in 2024)
• 18th Judicial District Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC) – Coordinated site offering early intervention, comprehensive assessment and connection to appropriate services for youth and families.  Grant funds will be used to hire a Community Assessment Program (CAP) clinician with targeted attention to youth in crisis and at risk of suicide.
  Total Award: $210,000
  Timeframe: 2023 – April 2025
• National Alliance on Mental Illness Arapahoe/Douglas Counties (NAMI ADCO) – Education, support and advocacy for people whose lives are impacted by mental illness.  Grant funds will be used for youth and family focused digital “marketplace” for vetted information and resources across the care continuum to support mental health and well-being and 24/7/365f accessible, comprehensive network of tools and professional mental health resources to empower users to increase self-management, awareness of mental health conditions, and quality of life.
  Total Award: $347,101
  Timeframe: 2023-2024
• Second Wind Fund – Cost-free, prompt therapy for youth 19 years old and younger at risk for suicide and resource navigation assistance for these youth and their families.  Grant funds will cover the cost of therapy for over 100 youth who qualify and a small budget staff including a Provider Engagement Manager and Front Range Community Manager.
  Total Award: $20,584.65
  Timeframe: 2023-2025
• You Are Not Alone, Mom 2 Mom (YANA M2M) – Outreach and peer support to mothers in Douglas County.  Grant funds will assist in the development of a digital program app, pilot the Strong Mamas, Thriving Babies (SMTB) in a Douglas County hospital in 2024, and expansion to other locations.
  Total Award: $260,400
  Timeframe: 2023-2024

Proposed Investment: $2,531,727

Description: Provision of Domestic Violence Shelter Facilities and Services

Veterans Mental Health
Proposed Investment: $333,000
Description: The 2020 Colorado Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) Needs Assessment identified veterans as one of the top priority populations in Colorado. Douglas County proposes a multi-county collaborative network to serve veterans with a three-pronged approach: 

• A full-time, specialized, veteran-specific position employed by the community mental health center, AllHealth Network, available to both Douglas and Arapahoe County Veteran Affairs Offices. 
• A part-time Douglas County Veteran Service Officer (VSO), whose primary duties would be to design and implement strategies for veterans’ mental health promotion and suicide prevention.  
• Finally, in support of enhancing specialized training, we propose offering Mental Health First Aid, the veteran module, to the eight Veteran Service Officers among Douglas and Arapahoe Counties.

Information Technology (Julota Case Management)
Proposed Investment: $410,000
Description: Julota provides the case management, data collection and reporting platform for the Community Response Team program, and The Care Compact (TCC). Over time additional expenses are anticipated to effectively manage CRT and TCC caseloads, comply with necessary privacy standards, accommodate a growing network of partners utilizing Julota and to enhance data collection, reporting and communication through data system integration.