The Literacy Center of West Michigan is committed to making this a region with the highest literacy levels in the nation. One in 8 adults in our area struggle with reading or writing. But volunteers are changing the lives of participants and vice versa.
That's because the bill laying out the state's new Behavioral Health Administration proposes blowing up the system as they know it. Colorado has 17 community mental health centers, each responsible for providing crisis services, ongoing therapy and help with housing to people who are low income or don't have insurance. Supporters of the bill see it as ending a.
This investigation is part of the ongoing “On Edge” series about Colorado’s mental health by the Colorado News Collaborative, the nonprofit that unites more than 160 communities and news outlets