RAVI’S PROVIDER UPDATES
Dear Summit County Mental Health Professionals,
Happy March! We hope this message finds you well. Enclosed please find a slew of updates for your perusal. Please contact info@buildinghopesummit.org with any questions.
Building Hope News
Workflow Reminder: Benefits Verifications
If you are a private provider in Building Hope’s scholarship network and take health insurance, please remember to validate each of your scholarship clients’ insurance benefits to check if mental health services are covered. If your client has an affordable, flat copay, we ask you to inform us so that we can discontinue the scholarship and transition them to their sustainable payer source. Please email Ravi with any questions.
Provider profile updates:
Please check your provider profile on our website’s therapist directory and email Ravi with any changes, specifically to your health insurance and specialities.
If you take Elevate Denver Health through Peak Health Alliance, and it is not on your profile, please email Ravi to have it added ASAP.
March Provider Social Mixer is happening next Thursday!
Register here for our in-person Provider Mixer happening on Thu, March 14th, from 6pm to 8:30pm at Bluebird Market in Silverthorne. One drink ticket and dinner on us! (Menu is available in the eventbrite registration). If you would like to share any news or updates as a brief presentation, please email Ravi to get on the agenda.
Suicide Prevention and Harms Reduction training
Building Hope, Mile High Behavioral Health, Front Range Clinic and Public Health are teaming up to put on a Suicide Prevention and Harm Reduction training on Tue, March 5th from 2-4pm at CMC Breck. We are specifically trying to target those in managerial or leadership roles in the service industry. Register here.
Suicide Loss Support Group
Tough Guy Sessions
Community Updates
MHBHC is hosting it’s first Summit Community Luncheon on March 6th at 12pm to honor and recognize community providers and partnerships. Please email Ciara McCoy with any questions.
Support teen Mental Health First Aid!
Youth and Family Services is looking for a mental health
Nicole Batway, Peer Mentoring Specialist, is working with The Peak School on April 2nd, 4th, and 9th to facilitate teen Mental Health First Aid to their 10-12th grade students. Per program requirements, a mental health professional must be available during the class sessions. The Peak School does not have a counselor on staff, so we are looking for a mental health professional in the community to fill this role. You will be compensated for your time.
Please contact Nicole at Nicole.Batway@
Our next Community-Wide Navigation Zoom Meeting – Wed, 3/20/24 at 9am
Building Hope merged our larger, agency/organizational, mental health navigation meeting with our smaller monthly therapist/provider meeting. Each month will alternate between presentations from the community and individual updates. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, 3/20 at 9am. This month (March) will be dedicated to presentations and brief trainings presented by local community stakeholders.
Click this link to add the meeting to your calendar, or if that doesn’t work feel free to email Ravi to be added. Alternatively, here is the Zoom link for your reference.
HCPF Medicaid Webinar Recording
HCPF hosted a webinar last week on 2/26 and it is available via recording here. HCPF and other state agencies covered the pending Medicaid behavioral health transformation, relevant policy changes, how changes are impacting communities, and what is coming next. Please feel free to watch this informative webinar: https://youtu.be/GfPpjS6HlKE
Provider Trainings & Workshops
Child Parent Psychotherapy
Intervention for Young Children Exposed to Trauma
March 5th at 9am on Zoom:
Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is an evidence-based, dyadic intervention for children birth to five years old and their caregivers, who have experienced traumatic events. CPP aims to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of relational trauma and traumatic events by restoring emotional safety in the caregiver-child attachment relationship, and by helping caregivers and young children heal from the impact of traumatic events. This training will provide participants with a broad overview this intervention. More specifically, the training will provide participants with a theoretical background for CPP, and the training will review the fidelity framework for CPP and various components of the treatment model. Case examples will be used throughout the didactic content to illustrate concepts.
Health Partnership is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting:
Topic: Behavioral Health
Time: Mar 5, 2024 09:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 810 8683 7196
Passcode: 980141
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Beth Reynolds is an EMDR Consultant-In-Training and is starting an EMDR Certification virtual consult group on the 1st and 3rd Thursday’s at 11 am MST. The group begins March 21st and will go through the end of September 2024. You will be able to obtain your 10 hours of group consult hours for certification.
The cost is $15/group. The group will be no larger than eight participants per EMDRIA requirements. Beth is also available for individual consultation at a rate of $50/hour. Feel free to check out www.realsightcounseling.com for more information. If you would like to be added to the roster or have further questions, email at Beth e.reynolds@
Partner News
OSO and FDRD go snowshoeing
This is a bilingual activity and there will be limited space. We are encouraging families from the immigrant and BIPOC community to join us but the event is open for everyone. We will have translators during this event.
The snowshoe hike will be on Saturday 03/09, from 10am to 12pm at Tenderfoot Mountain Trailhead on County Rd 51 in Dillon.
We are reaching out to you in hopes that you help us spread the word.
Questions and registration can be via text or whatsapp to 970-409-6137.
March Summit County Brain Injury Support Group
Common Spirit (formerly Centura) holds monthly Brain Injury Support Groups!
For month’s group, we are going to do our annual Nordic Ski outing at the Frisco Nordic Center (616 Recreation Way, Frisco, CO 80443) on Thursday March 21, 12:30-2:30 PM. The Nordic Center donates day passes and equipment rentals and funds from the hospital pays for an instructor. This is a great way to meet other members, explore a new or already loved sport, and get outside at no cost!
Please email Melissa Volkert if you are interested for details on registration.
CDPHE launches Connect More:
The Game That Turns Awkward Conversations
into Winning Connections
Connecting with teens can be a bit like a game show — full of unexpected moments and exciting twists and turns. If you’re feeling unsure about how to support your kids, that’s where Connect More comes in. Consider us your helpful host, ready to guide you through the thrilling highs and less-thrilling lows of figuring out how to respond to your teen’s toughest questions.
Connect More is the newest creative iteration of CDPHE’s Forward Together campaign, which supports parents, trusted adults, and youth in building the supportive relationships that are key to helping youth be happy and healthy. Connect More is an adventure — where participants are met with support to transform their relationship challenges into winning
11-18 y.o. Virtual IOP program with Antelope
Antelope Recovery is a virtual treatment provider that offers intensive outpatient programming for youth ages 11-18 — they have daytime and after school hours for groups and appointments. They treat a wide variety of mental health conditions such as substance abuse, depression, and anxiety.
They are working on being able to accept Medicaid, but currently accept Aetna, Signal, and Cigna. They also have scholarships available (
They do NOT have Spanish speaking providers at this time. They’re headquartered in Boulder but all services are remote.
If you are working with a teen or family who are looking for a higher level of care (meaning looking for more support than one outpatient therapy visit a week), this might be a good resource to share.
Clients can call 303-578-2391 to get started.
Job Opportunities
High Fidelity Wraparound Facilitator
High-Fidelity Wraparound is an evidenced-based care coordination process that has been demonstrated as an effective way to support children and youth with serious behavioral health challenges to live successfully in the community with their families. The primary responsibility of the facilitator is to bring together the different people who are providing services and supports for the youth and family and create an integrated and streamlined plan that is strongly informed by the youth/family voice and choice. The Facilitator is the convener of the wraparound process and is responsible for ensuring the model is implemented with fidelity for each child, youth, and family.
High Fidelity Wraparound Family Support Partner
The Family Support Partner (FSP) is a full-time position at the Mile High Behavioral Healthcare (MHBHC) in Summit County. This position is designed to provide intensive levels of direct support to families in the Summit County area. Often, but not always, the Family Support Partner is a graduate of Wraparound and should always be a family member of a person with complex emotional or mental health needs and system experience.
Casey Donohoe will be departing as hospital social worker:
Although a position in not yet posted, Casey’s role will be opening up soon (timeframe not exact). If you’re interested in taking over as the social worker for the hospital, please contact her at CaseyDonohoe@centura.org.
Unsheltered in Summit will be hiring for a part time role:
As Unsheltered in Summit continues to grow, they are ramping up to hire a part time worker to managing the Safe Parking Program and expand housing resources in Summit. If you are interested, please contact Diane Luellen at dianeluellen@comcast.net.
Last Word!
Please join our Summit County Provider Facebook page and please take our provider survey so we can continue to support our provider community.
If you would like to be added to the provider directory on Building Hope’s website or make updates to your existing profile, please fill out this form. For simple updates to your availability status, please email Ravi. If applicable: please also remember to log in to your Mountain Strong profile and make edits there as well!
We hope to see you at one of our community events.
*Building Hope Summit County*
*PO Box 1771, Frisco, CO 80443*
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