THRIVE is taxpayer-funded through nonprofit Caring for Denver. Denver Health says it has seen a significant decrease in ...

Denver's THRIVE program, which aims to help those experiencing homelessness and addiction, has also helped to decrease jail bookings. Other news from around the nation comes from North Carolina, ...

White Bird Clinic, a health care center in the city, launched the program as a community policing initiative in 1989. Like the Denver program, CAHOOTS responds to a range of mental health-related ...

All centers offer some type of 24/7 emergency program ... The Aurora Mental Health Center and the Mental Health Center of Denver limit the use of their mobile units more than others because ...

DENVER — Denver's STAR program will ... STAR stands for "Support Team Assisted Response." The program dispatches licensed mental health professionals rather than officers when a 911 call is ...

The STAR program deploys a mental health clinician and a paramedic to engage with people experiencing crises related to mental health, poverty, homelessness and substance abuse through Denver’s ...

is also in the program. "We're really just trying to wrap our arms around families from the very beginning," said Dr. Sarah Hills, Team Lead, Infant Mental Health, Denver Health. In doing so ...

It's why Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) wants to allocate money to expand a program at Denver's jail to help with this backlog. "When someone has a severe mental health illness ...

Since the pandemic, reports have shown that Colorado, like other states, has seen an increase in mental health needs as Denver continues to invest millions for behavioral health programs.

a contingent of Denver lawmakers, officials, and police officers spent three days in Eugene doing ride-alongs with responders from their mental health program, called CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance ...