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The Colorado Trust provided support to the Consortium for Older Adult Wellness to help bridge the gap between health care providers and community-based resources to improve the health and well-being of older Coloradans.

The Colorado Health Professions Workforce Policy Collaborative is bringing together policy leaders, health care providers, educational institutions, and economic development and workforce planners to reversen workforce shortages and strengthen Colorado's health care system. The Colorado Health Professions Workforce Policy Collaborative is bringing together policy leaders, health care providers, educational institutions, and economic development and workforce planners to reverse workforce shortages and strengthen Colorado's health care system.

The collaborative efforts led by Invest in Kids have helped to implement the evidence-based Nurse-Family Partnership home visitation program across Colorado, improving the health and well-being of over 12,000 children and their vulnerable families.

Over the last 16 years, Healthy Mountain Communities has brought solutions to problems throughout the nine communities that make up this region.

A grantee of The Trust's first statewide initiative, Colorado Healthy Communities, the High Plains Community Health Center was created and continues as a leader in health care for the un- and underinsured, migrants and many others in southeast Colorado.

To address the mental and physical health needs of preschool and elementary school students, The Colorado Trust provided support to the Montrose County School District for its Northside Elementary school-based health center.

In the remote ranching community of Craig, the safety-net clinic used to be open just two days a month. An extension of the local hospital, the clinic was struggling and rarely saw children. The Northwest Colorado Health took over the clinic and successfully mounted a massive effort to win designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center in 2008. Now the Northwest Colorado Community Health Center boasts a full-time staff of medical and behavioral health experts and is open five days a week.

Bebe Kleinman of Doctors Care in Littleton is working with other city leaders to meet the needs of immigrants in the community, including an emphasis on health care, mental health issues and suicide prevention.

For three decades, providers at Advanced Pediatrics have been committed to caring for all children, whether they have private insurance or depend on public programs like Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+).

Cancer patient Janice Slade lives in the San Luis Valley where a shortage of health professionals makes it difficult to receive access to the regular, quality care she needs.