368A5A9BD82DB1618725878000666EB4 Hearing Summary

Vincent Atchity, Subpanel Chair, President and CEO, Mental Health Colorado, provided an overview of subpanel and work group progress.

Lesley Brooks, M.D., Subpanel Vice-Chair, Chief of Addiction Medicine, SummitStone Health Partners, added to the discussion about subpanel and work group progress. 

Henry Sobenet, Chief Financial Officer, Colorado State University System, discussed his work as a subpanel member of the Task Force on Economic Recovery and Relief Cash Fund.  He shared the Economic Recovery and Relief Task Force suggested evaluation criteria, found here:  http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/committees/2017/err_task_force_possible_framework_for_evaluating_recomendations_11-1-10.pdf.

Committee members asked questions about the evaluation criteria. 

Jacob Bornstein, Wellstone Strategies, shared how the Affordable Housing Transformational Task Force is prioritizing strategies.  He distributed the following documents to the committee:

• Feedback on Behavioral Health Workforce Preliminary Draft Recommendations (http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/committees/2017/bhtf_draft_workforce_recomendations_chelckist_11-1-24.pdf)
• Subpanel Preliminary Draft Recommenations Workforce Pillar (http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/committees/2017/bhtf_subpanel_workforce_recomendations_handout_11-1-21.pdf)
• Review of Guidance from Task Force (http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/committees/2017/bhttf_lenses_and_guidance.pdf)

Roger Low, CEO and Founder, Colorado Equitable Economic Mobility Initiatives, discussed his organization's purpose and mission.  He presented a slide deck about workforce issues, accessed here: http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/committees/2017/11.1.2021_ceemi_presentation.pdf.

He answered questions from the committee.  Committee discussion followed about psychiatric nurses.