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The Mental Health Center of Denver was recently awarded a 5-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to expand infant and early childhood mental health services throughout Colorado with a new initiative, Right Start for Colorado. About Right Start for Colorado To remedy this, $22 million was designated to create grants that support infant and early childhood mental health services at the community level. Our goal is to create alignment among all different sectors and organizations working on behalf of infants and young children and provide some game-changing work that advances the infant mental health landscape in Colorado,” Dr. Bekman said. To help build a statewide infant and early childhood mental health workforce, Right Start for Colorado will offer trainings to clinicians across the state on several evidence-based clinical treatments specific to very young children.

As #MayisMentalHealthMonth comes to a close, I hope you’ve been inspired by the science-backed research we’ve shared. I frequently take time to think about what I’m grateful for and I took the extra step to actually write these thoughts down. The course assigns a one-week commitment to adequate sleep. Although a stricter commitment to adequate sleep has been more difficult for me to maintain, I am trying to turn this into a more regular practice.

That’s why this May, I want to share how I was able to significantly improve my well-being and offer you tips and tools on how you too, can boost your mental health and live a more meaningful life. This month, we’re encouraging people to take a free online course called the Science of Well-Being from Yale professor Laurie Santos. There is so much science-backed research on how we can live happier, more fulfilling lives and this course will share those insights as well as offer strategies to help you improve your own well-being. We hope the information we share for May is Mental Health Month inspires you to take steps to improve your own well-being and improves your understanding of how strong mental health improves our community.

Now, he works at the farm stand or aquaponics greenhouse at Dahlia Campus for Health & Well-Being two times a week. He found out more about Dahlia Campus for Health & Well-Being through his friend Jenna Smith, Aquaponics Manager at the Mental Health Center of Denver, and learned about the organization’s suicide prevention efforts and resources. He volunteered at Dahlia Campus’ annual fish fry last June, and then he started volunteering at the farm stand on Wednesdays and the aquaponics greenhouse on Fridays. Volunteering at Dahlia Campus for Health & Well-Being has helped Phillip learn that well-being is an “everybody thing.