The Anschutz Foundation has committed up to $50 million to the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus to jumpstart a new initiative in mental health. As a challenge gift, the investment aims to generate $200 million in funding from public and private partners and will create the CU Anschutz Campus Mental Health Collaborative to develop scalable, tech-enabled programs to improve access and interventions for adults and children in need of mental health care.
Drawing on the reservoir of expertise on the CU Anschutz campus, including hospital partners Children’s Hospital Colorado and UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, the collaborative will expand and transform these programs into community interventions, crisis care systems and workforce development models. The hub for the collaborative will be in the Anschutz Health Sciences Building.
The new funding will support a variety of mental health interventions including suicide prevention; community interventions focused on schools, workplace, the home, first responders and co-response; primary care integration and care transitions for pediatrics and adults; crisis and acute care including substance abuse treatment, inpatient care and advancing innovative new therapies including neuromodulation.
