THE PEDIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
Kids and Teens Deserve the Best Mental Health Care The Pediatric Mental Health Institute (PMHI) at Children’s Hospital Colorado provides the highest quality mental health services to children, adolescents and their families. No matter the mental health challenge, we collaborate with families to find healing. And we need your support to continue helping kids and teens in crisis.
Together, we can bring hope and healing to youth struggling with mental health issues. Children’s Colorado has a plan to ensure more kids and teens get the right mental health care at the right time. Inpatient facilities. We will add inpatient beds to help more kids and teens in a mental health crisis.
Family-centered care. We will redesign our clinical space so families can stay overnight and continue to be apart of treatment.
Pediatric Mental Health by the Numbers Suicide is the highest rate of death among Colorado youth
Why Support the Pediatric Mental Health Institute? We believe kids and teens deserve the right care at the right time with the right expertise. With your philanthropic support, we will expand our care and invest in transforming the future of pediatric mental health. At Children’s Colorado, we have the people, infrastructure, and partnerships to transform the delivery of pediatric mental health care in the Rocky Mountain region.
ages 10 to 14. Colorado ranks 48th in the nation for the
Center of Excellence. We will establish a collaborative entity of pediatric experts to track patient outcomes, identify gaps in case and share best practices.
A better future for children with mental illness is within reach and is more necessary and urgent than ever before. Our kids and teens are not getting the help they need because of barriers to care in our region, and they need you.
need mental health services but cannot access them.
Together, we can change the state of pediatric mental health. Your philanthropic support will help transform access to and quality of care across the Rocky Mountain region.
226,000 kids and teens
only 21% receive professional care.
Expanded reach. We will reach kids and teens in rural communities by connecting local primary care providers with our trained psychiatrists.
Kids Can’t Wait
number of kids who
have diagnosable mental health conditions in Colorado, yet
Education. We will educate adults to recognize warning signs.
Will you help create a better mental health future for kids?
“Without Children’s Hospital Colorado, Cora could have died.” C A R O L I N E , C O R A’ S M O M
Comprehensive Services Children’s Colorado is the only pediatric provider in the region that delivers comprehensive mental health care. Our team of psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, nurses and creative arts therapists provide a complete continuum of psychiatric services including outpatient, partial hospitalization, inpatient and emergency services for all ages up to 18. We seek philanthropic partners to ensure that we can expand and enhance the care we’re currently providing.
Contact us to learn about investment opportunities at the Pediatric Mental Health Institute. Anschutz Medical Campus 13123 East 16th Ave., Box 045 Aurora, CO 80045 720-777-1700 ChildrensColoradoFoundation.org/PMHI