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.