The Rolling Heads in Colorado's Crappy Mental Health System

• Robert Werthwein & Sharon Raggio are gone and Carl Clark @ MHCD is still there, really?​
• Most know that there is a SIGNIFICANT LIMIT to what these kinds of EXITS are going to accomplish.
• BUT we also know that things can't go on the way they have.

 
Further, the Mental Health Profession has problems that go beyond the PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM.

• ​It is going to be EASIER to DESIGN a BETTER SERVICE SYSTEM --- if we have a better idea about what we're talking about with regard to NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL & PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS.
• AND that is undergoing some CONSIDERABLE REVISION ---
  • ​It's not so much that our current explanations are WRONG (sometimes they are ) --- it's more that we've taken the first 1 or 2 links in the CHAIN of CAUSALITY that we've come across --- and thought we had the whole thing.
    • ​Further, that's a lot of what we're doing in our criticism of the PROVIDERS and the STATE.
    • It's not exactly wrong, but if we want to CHANGE this --- it is not going to be sufficient.
    • ​There are BIG SYSTEMIC CHALLENGES.

 
Historically, States and Providers and FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE State Legislatures have done a complicated Kabuki Dance in which the NEEDS of INDIVIDUALS and FAMILIES have been sold down the river to maintain the ILLUSION that laws were being complied with and needs met.

• ​CERTAINLY a lot is being spent but we SHOCKINGLY have not prioritized those with the greatest needs.

Robert Werthwein resigns from Colorado Office of Behavioral Health. Photo Credit: Denver Post

From ColoradoPolitics.com:

• Robert Werthwein to step down from state Office of Behavioral Health  (Dec. 9, 2021)

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• Werthwein was never the issue with Colorado’s behavioral health system (Dec. 27, 2021)  

Sharon Raggio --- Former CEO of Mind Springs -- serving the Western Slope

​From SummitDaily:

County leaders across Colorado respond to Mind Springs Health CEO’s resignation

‘One person didn’t create this system and one person’s resignation isn’t going to fix it’  (Jan. 4, 2022)

Dr. Carl Clark --- CEO of Mental Health Center of Denver

​From Axios Denver:

​The CEO Carl Clark took a $819,340 salary in 2019, more than 10 times what the average clinician earns.  (Dec. 6, 2021)

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