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Tim Miller, state affairs director for the Colorado Farm Bureau, said the Farm Bureau’s camp program — which provides six free vouchers for rural farmers to access agricultural-friendly therapists — faced a proposed cut in the state budget of approximately $50. Miller said Representative Dusty Johnson intervened on the House floor and the repeal was defeated: \"This program is gonna get funded for at least the next two years,\" he said. Miller said Representative Johnson hopes to introduce legislation to make the funding permanent.

Separately, Sarah (board member, Larimer County Farmers Alliance) said her group has started a Coffee Break event at the Fox Den in northern Fort Collins, scheduled for the first Monday of every month from noon to 1 p.m. The group held its first meeting and had six attendees; she said Agwell covered coffee for the first event but that federal RASF grant cancellations have removed some expected funds and the alliance will seek alternative support going forward.

Rosie Scovern of the Colorado Department of Agriculture said she reorganized the Ag Behavioral Health web pages into a central hub with resource tables and an events submission form. She invited group members to add events and resources and said she will update the events and funding page roughly weekly.

Robert Sacada, Ag Water Policy Advisor at the Colorado Department of Agriculture, said the department extended a request-for-proposals deadline for an Ag Behavioral Health Summit to mid-May and that a tentative in-person working-group meeting is planned for July 22 in Pueblo and a June 24 meeting will include optional in-person training.

Ending: Members who need help with events or resource postings were invited to contact CDA staff; working-group organizers said they will circulate links and meeting materials by email.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","April 22, 2025 Ag Behavioral Health Work Group Meeting","oneSentenceSummary","Working-group members reported local program activity including Larimer County Coffee Break, a Farm Bureau voucher program preserved from a proposed cut, and new CDA web resources and an RFP for an Ag Behavioral Health Summit.","taxTitle","Department of Agriculture, State Agencies, Organizations, Executive, Colorado","taxId",27097,"location","Colorado","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6260332,"Working group forms committees and posts goal spreadsheet to organize Ag behavioral health work",374,3806000,4180000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95&start=3806&end=4180","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95/thumbnail_3806000.jpg","/articles/6260332/Colorado/Working-group-forms-committees-and-posts-goal-spreadsheet-to-organize-Ag-behavioral-health-work","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6260332-f101e3540faecda19d958f2af4a7d439/orig.mp4?Expires=1770566014&Signature=mM~T63kdA2X~3H94OmZb1B7REdChU31AvUl4fHkkVtPogjrDCSTJDAoxI3CJdpMsoL8RilXSZezIWiKe59CeaUsKAuyjrk2MX4hWKjyWetKN4KZ7r5Oix4DxL9OnYpqLRdDe~E-L~IfRn1yjrDwKnVdYAozH94euRUyxvWVkC5bt5KrtSl~LnzYCj~ha49F8WPdbVowAskchPyLQgY78tfmUponby4tvFeH6byyPxcx6XKbHRSO6I8srhzmQo0quPxNILUDFYVD65998VHY2DVDLNY9922cI0oYNysFsrVt0Ae2wynEbn1x5JosQ8hkPGDLZn~UjeQ89PJN7qY6j6w__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Colorado Ag Behavioral Health Working Group outlined a work-plan structure and asked members to sign up for three subcommittees to help move goals required by the senate bill into action.

Clinton Wilson of Colorado State University, who led the meeting, explained that a goal spreadsheet is available on the meeting agenda and asked members to add their names under the subcommittee that matches their interests. \"Put your name in one of those, underneath one of those groups,\" Wilson said, urging prompt sign-ups so the group can organize and begin meeting.

The three proposed subcommittees are: compiling best practices; identifying gaps and collecting outcome data; and engaging other stakeholders and partners. Members discussed access permissions to the shared spreadsheet and Rosie Scovern of the Colorado Department of Agriculture offered to assist members who had trouble editing the file.

The group discussed procedural requirements: subcommittee meetings will need to be posted as public gatherings so members of the public may listen in, and organizers will receive follow-up instructions about making meetings publicly accessible.

The working group also agreed to use the spreadsheet to track responsibilities mapped to goals from the enabling senate bill and to return to the full group at the next meeting with more organized subcommittee plans.

Ending: Members were asked to add their names as soon as possible and to contact Rosie Scovern for help accessing the shared materials.","The group organized three subcommittees—best practices, gaps/data, and stakeholder engagement—and asked members to add their names to a shared goal spreadsheet; subcommittee meetings must be posted publicly if they are formal gatherings.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6260337,"State funds short-term clinician training tailored to agricultural communities, selects LandLogic model",404,4453000,4857000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95&start=4453&end=4857","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95/thumbnail_4453000.jpg","/articles/6260337/Colorado/State-funds-short-term-clinician-training-tailored-to-agricultural-communities-selects-LandLogic-model","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6260337-c3bce3549782f2820d68da1649e2ba76/orig.mp4?Expires=1770566014&Signature=YSb2Y7qa06oMS~Ykoi85pNJH06bu03cr1VKm~6ek9l0hoPU6GOUElz6jZF3adBIIsQPx8qduOtepy8orTkzfrR2Vq4WzxB03yFRUj113U4xMMmakZGhSEktZxuz033azBqSSRKHQYEpDjVx9PdNw31ONoYnibQ8ysojDt5IxbvNMO3fAwEz3bied6ekPhSfDq9bE~uKaQWIUApWnzToww23vFMXSa4YUl5OF1E8msmYQ8CA86lptuoGMSmVfOgQQLrDN1yyQ4Q~EaF0jDGmBPUihBWAiosJgsTMsJGPoDO0nITrgvmT0FjjLkCAbn1fg6PVZSZbptuKPDpumDm9gGQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The working group approved using fiscal-year 2024–25 funds to purchase a short-term clinician training designed for agricultural producers and heard a presentation on LandLogic, a clinical framework developed to help clinicians adapt evidence-based therapies to the agricultural context.

Chad Reznick, behavioral health state specialist with Colorado State University Extension and the Colorado AgrAbility Project, described LandLogic as a brief, 5–10 session, solution-focused clinical approach drawing on cognitive behavioral and action-commitment therapies and adapted through focus groups with more than 100 producers. \"LandLogic is kind of culmination of about 3 and a half years worth of work that we've been putting into developing this,\" Reznick said.

The model uses an \"aerial photo\" technique to help clinicians understand a producer’s operation and day-to-day stressors and incorporates an agricultural resiliency and protective-factors assessment, a values-based planning approach and agriculturally relevant worksheets such as a \"barbed wire thinking\" cognitive-distortion workbook.

Reznick said the developers have trained 202 providers and reported encouraging evaluation results: 98% of respondents said the training would help build trust with clients, 96% said it would increase client retention and 98% said it would promote positive outcomes for agricultural clients.

Kelly (BHA liaison) and others explained the fiscal constraints: the FY24–25 training funds must be spent by June 30, and the BHA intends to use longer lead times and additional funding through 2029 to develop culturally tailored training for tribal communities, migrant and seasonal farmworker populations and Spanish-speaking clinicians and workers.

The training selection reflects the working group’s mandate to support clinician cultural competency for agricultural communities and to spread brief, practical therapeutic tools to providers who serve producers and farmworkers.

Ending: The working group will receive follow-up materials about the purchase and LandLogic training evaluations; BHA and CSU Extension said they will pursue more tailored curricula with community partners over the next funding cycle.","Colorado will fund short-term clinician training designed for agricultural producers; the working group heard a presentation on the LandLogic clinical model and plans for culturally tailored training for tribal and Spanish-speaking communities in future years.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6260342,"State Behavioral Health Administration outlines roadmap, BASO launch and local engagement plan",586,2470000,3056000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95&start=2470&end=3056","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95/thumbnail_2470000.jpg","/articles/6260342/Colorado/State-Behavioral-Health-Administration-outlines-roadmap-BASO-launch-and-local-engagement-plan","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6260342-aa08eac77ca0ccf961d06df00a54f38e/orig.mp4?Expires=1770566014&Signature=dvCYmQBTwSDvJFmNitKsA~cDDbFk~cKqoFTo2t1ceo4oQEMcZWuZZCXQt8kD3KvW3gl82SB9M1jDJhpxVJ28-PCWkUGOojT-zzN8D7VVIiKe0zvRyLtqJT7nhBz9-x1gxo7dEHkhr-gbo17v~QcQ~ZzlAymmOr4BucquP61snMS6rBjMJtbM7yfk3AmhBDNg87Ss2yYXpdUFmi4hAaa1V2r-PuNE~Sf7e78Mj5P8k7MTxYIrgtWjLISPr0fOQ2AsaDZhHs4-RcL-vvqyn-5H1pyonlinMPGBU-rxVkiPElMYtMxp86ILTiEOY-dfjIgY64KcX~TufYBpfKmQkSenSQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) described a roadmap of priorities, a planned Behavioral Health Administration Service Organizations (BASO) launch and a regional liaison structure intended to improve access and coordination for behavioral health services statewide.

Calandra (Cali), regional community engagement specialist and statewide agricultural liaison with the BHA, told the working group the administration’s road map launched July 1, 2024, and that BHA priorities include updating the behavioral health safety net, improving care coordination, public reporting via a performance hub, a new grievance and complaint process in English and Spanish, and a children and youth behavioral health implementation plan.

\"The BHA is your state level organization that's responsible for ensuring that everyone in the state of Colorado has access to behavioral health care regardless of barriers like ability to pay, documentation status,\" Calandra said.

Calandra said the BHA launched a performance hub with county-level metrics and invited the working group to suggest additional measures. She described a new grievance and complaint website and a suite of statewide services including 988, OwnPath (a searchable provider database), and the I Matter program that offers six free counseling sessions for youth in English and Spanish.

The BHA announced a planned BASO launch on July 1, 2025, as part of a redesign of the state behavioral-health system. Calandra said BHA will recruit members for regional BASO advisory councils later in the year and is committed to diverse and representative advisory membership.

Calandra described a team of four regional community-engagement specialists who live in their regions, promote BHA programs, amplify diverse voices and facilitate regional collaboration. She encouraged working-group members to use the liaisons as points of contact for early input on state initiatives.

The presentation also previewed commissioner community conversations across the state this summer and a July 9 BASO launch event at the state capitol. Calandra said the BHA advisory council application window closed April 28, and she urged interested members to watch for upcoming BASO advisory recruitment in August.

Ending: The BHA asked the working group to share suggestions for performance metrics and to consider applying for BASO advisory roles when recruitment opens.","The Behavioral Health Administration described its five priorities, a July 1 planned BASO launch, a new performance hub and local liaison program to improve behavioral health access and coordination across Colorado.",{"_33":113,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":114,"_41":115,"_43":116,"_45":117,"_47":118,"_49":119,"_51":120,"_53":121,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":122,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":123,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6260347,"Colorado data show high suicide rates among agricultural workers; state outlines local prevention programs",1163,1220000,2383000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95&start=1220&end=2383","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3133629-d20ba95aa3c938170fdd95b2e1f72a95/thumbnail_1220000.jpg","/articles/6260347/Colorado/Colorado-data-show-high-suicide-rates-among-agricultural-workers-state-outlines-local-prevention-programs","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6260347-ee1d94b85100fedcee5398aa7a98d9c1/orig.mp4?Expires=1770566014&Signature=byFlinANGpTFT8MEqhLIusGIGds81AyIUXy5RCkpb1JNyI4XHoTdW-GeaqYMCWfjRk-KOnMm7j55zWIlR-HngbP7gWnK5dtAQrINlQGdCASrFeByOUd4rJDsKMYo956OMu0KF2KNZ~14JVh~J8qOXLRDp1O970M2OpDmhGst5aJfOMefur7SnMIaC1K8KVF13IWfudy2jWIDrwb~LQwZqmm7LyRQzT6lFNK~McK9hq~Xkkt8luUbejuIGz0wMo7HFepO1R657j17eIMq3hagu0gl~XPPF4qY~VxV7hnzVH6qNarCbPGZEXlW1zOPHC4scTEWOIhJQmv2GaxX8xum2w__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Office of Suicide Prevention presented statewide and county-level data showing higher suicide rates in rural Colorado and described local prevention programs targeted to agricultural communities.

Catherine Harvey, rural strategies specialist at the Office of Suicide Prevention, said Colorado’s rural suicide rate remains higher than urban areas and that the office has been funding local coalitions to address the problem. \"Most people dying by suicide actually do not have a mental health diagnosis,\" Harvey said, summarizing coroners' circumstantial data she reviewed.

The office reported 189 deaths in the past 10 years among people identified by coroners as working in agriculture, forestry, fishing or hunting. Of those deaths, 92% were male and 66% were by firearm; the statewide average firearm share for suicide deaths was reported at 51%. The deaths were distributed broadly across adult age groups from 25 to 65.

Why this matters: the OSP said these figures show why locally tailored prevention is necessary. Harvey told the working group that many of the people who died had not been treated for a mental health condition, and that prevention work must therefore include community supports, stigma reduction and lethal-means safety in addition to treatment access.

OSP described the Colorado National Collaborative (CNC), a county-level suicide-prevention project that funds backbone organizations to convene local coalitions with health centers, nonprofits, schools, people with lived experience and other partners. Harvey said the CNC uses six pillars — connectedness; economic stability and supports; education and awareness; lethal means safety; access to safer suicide care; and postvention — as the framework for county work.

Examples cited: Montezuma County’s coffee-and-cattle gatherings (paid coffee for farmers to encourage informal connection); Pueblo County’s distribution of long-sleeve shirts with 988 and bilingual mental-health messaging to farmworkers; and a gunshot project that supplies suicide-prevention materials and site visits to gun shops, ranges and events staffed by respected local firearm owners.

OSP said it added 12 Eastern Plains counties to CNC as of April 1 using one-time funds and that the original CNC grantees’ grants are scheduled to expire in August. Harvey said future county participation depends on whether federal funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is available: \"We're waiting to see if that is federal funding that will come through and that's how that's funded,\" she said.

The office also noted statewide campaigns and resources used to reach rural men and producers, including the Man Therapy public campaign and plans to develop more agricultural-specific materials.

OSP offered to share data and slide materials with working-group members and said a public suicide-data dashboard is available for county-level queries. The office encouraged local coalitions and individuals to contact OSP for technical help and for notification about future CNC funding opportunities.

Ending: OSP asked working-group members to help ensure locally funded CNC coalitions are representative of Spanish-speaking and other underrepresented populations in their counties, and to notify the office if they want direct alerts about future funding opportunities.","The Office of Suicide Prevention presented county-level data showing higher rural suicide rates and described the Colorado National Collaborative and local prevention strategies such as the gunshot project, COMET trainings and targeted outreach to farm communities.","actionData","errors"]

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