988/911 Project Coordinator - Denver (Grant Funded, Term Limited through 9/30/2026)
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About The Position
This position exists within the Adult Treatment and Recovery work unit. The team has responsibility for program oversight, technical assistance, programmatic monitoring, and collaboration with stakeholders and outside agencies related to a broad spectrum of behavioral health services. It evaluates service quality, manages contracts, grants oversight, and serves as a contact for outside agencies pertaining to issues of behavioral health service provision, and advocacy for Coloradans with substance use and mental health disorders. In 2021-22 the Colorado Legislature created a new suicide prevention 988 hotline with crisis response services with a new business enterprise structure that is supported by the Behavioral Health Administration and its Finance and Contract area. The bill requires the Department to implement the 988 crisis hotline enterprise. The enterprise is and operates as a government-owned business within the Department of Human Services for the business purpose of imposing cell phone charges and utilizing the charges' revenue to fund the 988 crisis hotline and provide crisis outreach, stabilization, and acute care to individuals calling the 988 crisis hotline.
