SB 22-147

Senate Bill 22-147, titled "Behavioral Health-care Services For Children," establishes a new program at the University of Colorado called CoPPCAP. This program helps primary care providers and school-based health centers identify and treat mild to moderate behavioral health issues in children. The bill also allocates $4.6 million for CoPPCAP, $5 million to expand access to behavioral health services through grants, and $1.5 million to support school-based health centers. Since the bill has been signed into law, these funding measures are now in place to improve mental health care for children across Colorado.

Official Summary

The act creates in the university of Colorado the Colorado pediatric psychiatry consultation and access program (CoPPCAP). The purpose of CoPPCAP is to support primary care providers in identifying and treating mild to moderate behavioral health conditions in children in primary care practices or school-based health centers. The act requires the general assembly to appropriate from the behavioral and mental health cash fund: $4.6 million to CoPPCAP; $5 million to the behavioral health care professional matching grant program to expand access to behavioral health-care services for children and families; and $1.5 million to the school-based health center grant program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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