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Colorado organizations serving youth rethink their role in addressing mental health crisis

“We can’t just wait for people to come to the hospitals,” U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says

Lakewood High School student Ciara Leal, ...
Lakewood High School student Ciara Leal, right, hugs Tara Noyes after having a discussion about teen suicide on behalf of the Robbie’s Hope Foundation on the 16th St. Mall in Denver on Jan. 25, 2020. Robbie Eckert, a student at Lakewood High School, took his own life in 2018. Robbie’s parents Jason and Kari Eckert started Robbie’s Hope Foundation to raise awareness and push for the need for increased mental health resources in local communities. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - MARCH 7:  Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Children's Hospital Colorado declared a youth mental health emergency because of an increase in kids and teens hospitalized in behavioral health crises, and that year's Healthy Kids Colorado survey found distress was widespread.
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