Tag: non – profit
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What’s On Your Mind? Non-Profit Salaries, Reentry Services, and Mental Health Programs.
This article is written by someone with lived experience in Colorado’s reentry system—not always a positive one. It seeks to shed light on pressing issues within mental health services, reentry programs, and the broader non-profit sector in Colorado, which have reached what some describe as a pandemic of systemic dysfunction. The Facebook prompt “What’s on your…
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The Broken Promise of Caring for Denver: When Ambition Outpaces Accountability—A Scam in Disguise? Denver’s Mental Health and Reentry Crisis: Is Caring for Denver Just Another Hoodwink?The Impact of Unregulated Facilities
In 2018, Denver voters embraced an ambitious initiative to tackle the city’s mental health and addiction crises through a small sales tax increase. Spearheaded by State Representative Leslie Herod and endorsed by mental health leaders like Dr. Carl Clark of WellPower, the program promised transformative change. Dubbed Caring for Denver, the campaign envisioned an annual…