Grantee Stories & Videos

By Jeanine Draut, The Colorado Trust Personal responsibility is an ever-present theme in America’s conversation about health and health care. It’s a theme that was repeated at The Atlantic’s Conversation on Community Health Town Hall held in Denver on February 6.

By Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, The Colorado Trust By expanding Medicaid, we can save thousands of lives in our state over the next decade and save money, making state revenue available for other priorities. There will be no such savings of either lives or funds without expansion.

By Angela Atkinson, Early Childhood Council of La Plata County A program of the Early Childhood Council of La Plata County, the Community Access and Referral Enrollment System was originally intended solely to benefit young children but quickly expanded to other vulnerable populations.

By Laurel Petralia, The Colorado Trust Does Colorado have a sufficient health care workforce to meet the increased demand for health care services?

By Moe Keller, Mental Health America of Colorado The Colorado Coalition for Parity hosted former Congressman Patrick Kennedy for a public hearing highlighting the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

By Jill Johnson, The Colorado Trust The school-based health center at Southwest Open School in Cortez makes a little go a long way.

As part of its multi-year commitment to strengthen patient care and safety, The Colorado Trust supported a successful collaboration among health care educators, providers and policymakers that led to the establishment of the nation's first simulation training to improve patient safety and quality of care.

The Colorado Trust is providing support to the Early Childhood Council of Larimer County and 25 other early childhood councils as part of its strategy to improve health outcomes for Colorado children by better integrating health and health care into the state’s early childhood development system.

Assets for Colorado Youth worked in partnership with others to create environments that improve the health and well-being of children and young people by building on the developmental assets framework - an approach focused on adopting positive behaviors, rather than curbing negative behaviors.

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.