mental health

Amid rising input costs, trade tensions, and extreme weather, U.S. farmers—especially older producers—are facing mounting debt, mental health strain, and record-low incomes.

Millions of people in the U.S. experience domestic and sexual violence each year, including children and teens. To try to prevent this from happening, Basalt-based nonprofit Response is partnering with K-12 schools from Aspen to Carbondale to teach students about consent and healthy relationships in the age of smartphones and social media.

At a recent meeting hosted by Ascendigo, Roaring Fork Valley locals voiced support for the Colorado Intentional Communities Research Project's mission to develop more neuro-inclusive housing.

Queer Prom in Carbondale gave LGBTQ+ youth a joyful, affirming space to celebrate identity, connection, and community—offering support in a time of political uncertainty and growing need.

This week on Regional Roundup: Dolores Huerta speaks in Denver, immigrant advocacy in the Mountain West, ICE and mental health, mining on public lands, and more.

As young people across the country continue to die in the fentanyl epidemic, El Jebel resident Cath Adams is spreading awareness in schools and other venues about the synthetic opioid drug after losing her 21-year-old daughter to an accidental overdose in 2020.

Mind Springs Health in Grand Junction was considering a partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year to offer inpatient mental health care services to detainees. But when community concern mounted over how the potential deal could make it easier for ICE to arrest immigrants in Western Colorado, the mental health care provider abandoned contract discussions.

Four states have set up procedures for people to restrict sales of guns to themselves voluntarily.

Local high school students involved in the Youth Leadership Council are tackling several issues, including youth mental health, cost of living, and substance abuse.

Last week, the Upper Colorado River Commission held a virtual meeting on developments concerning a controversial government program designed to pay water users to curb their use. The System Conservation Pilot Program, or SCPP, is intended to help boost flagging water levels in Lake Powell. Some farmers and irrigators in southwest Colorado – and in other Upper Basin states like New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming – had reservations about applying, concerned about deliberately not farming their land in order to save water. Chuck Cullom, the executive director of the commission, says the process leading up to this iteration of the SCPP was rushed, something he says the commission takes responsibility for. And a set of bills that would expand treatment for people with eating disorders passed the state Senate Tuesday.