Athletes sign with colleges

State; Cole Jenkins, baseball, Missouri Valley; Sophie Schwartz, weightlifting, Concordia.

Chaparral: Landon LaFlam, lacrosse, Canisius; Blake, lacrosse, Adams State; Gavin Morgan, lacrosse, CSU-Pueblo; Shane Hanson, baseball, Santa Barbara City College; Violet ompson, cross country, track, Ft. Lewis; Jackson Parrill, cross country, South Dakota Mines; Benjamin Flora, football, Dordt; Brayden Munroe, football, Northern Colorado.

Cherry Creek: Chase Brackney, football, Iowa; Logan Brantley, football, Kansas; Blake Purchase, football, Oregon; Javon Smith-Combs, football, Colorado State; Hank Zlinskas, football, Colorado; Ismael Cisse, football, Stanford; Braylen Warren, football, Northern Colorado;

Highlands Ranch: Enrich Kephart, baseball, Lubbock Christian; Mason Kajfosz, swimming, Purdue; Daniela Cranford, volleyball, Idaho State; McKenna Carnesi. gymnastics, Washington; Rylan Smith, soccer, San Francisco; Bailey Williamson, rowing, Kansas State

Heritage: Gavin Batron, cross country, track, Metro State; Kate Bryant, gymnastics, Clemson; Sophia Capp, swimming, Purdue; Austin Carr, baseball, South Mountain Community; Sophie Castro, soccer, Army; Amy Champagne, volleyball, Baker; Lila Crowley, track and eld, Texas Tech; Patrick Deevy, swimming, Lynn; Zach Dickman, swimming, Lafayette; Hanna Doerr, soccer, Belmont Abbey; Inge Ehm, swimming, Texas Christian; Sam Garcis, track and eld, Lewis and Clark; Garrett Gurley, swimming, Colorado Mesa; Cade Kunz, baseball, Barton Community; Trevor Landen, baseball, Northern Colorado; Mary Macaulay, swimming, North Carolina; Mitchell Oliver, swimming, Arizona; Hank

Orr, baseball, Barton Community; Jake Paczkowski, baseball, San Joaquin Delta; Ashlyn Porter, softball, Campbell; Zyrig Siegler, football, Western Colorado; Annika Sokol, volleyball, Central Florida: Kayla Truong, soccer, Black Hills State; Linda Weigang. track and eld, Ft. Lewis.

Littleton: Dalana Jakovljevic, basketball, Snow; Brycen Mhlanga, football, Adams State; Aiden Lauer, football, Adams State; Ethan Bird, football, Adams State; Carter Wasson, lacrosse, Aurora; Skye Fanch, soccer, Lake Forest.

Mountain Vista: Alexander Turpin, football, Colorado Mesa; Dawson Long, lacrosse, American International; Brandt Ward, lacrosse, Sacred Heart; Joel Palasz, lacrosse, Sacred Heart; Brady Brown, lacrosse, Monmouth; Riley Jenkins, lacrosse, Canisius; Ethan Pearson, lacrosse, Towson; Abby Aeschleman, golf, Creighton; CJ Meehan, lacrosse, Marquette; Talia Reading,lacrosse, Northwestern; Kamryn Wilson, soccer, Stetson; Brooke Conway, cross country, track, Cal Poly; Keira Gamily, cross country, track, Northeastern; Cayley Swain, cross country, track, Vassar; Rachel Bair, track, Utah; Valerie Stoltz, volleyball, Susquehanna; Michael Wittren, beach volleyball, Grand Canyon; Mai Kawahata, swimming, Santa Barbara; Sean Marlow, baseball, St. omas; Jeremy Bergeron, baseball, Ausustana; Zeke Borel, baseball, Concordia-Irvine; Noah Baker, baseball, Murray State; Brendan Diehl, baseball, Doane.

Ponderosa: Lauren Stucky, softball, Colorado State; Kayli Spall, basketball, Doane; Caden D’Lallo, lacrosse, Adams State; Ryan Kennett, track and eld, Colorado Mines; Camden Stanley, lacrosse, Westminster; Katherine Rank, volleyball, New Haven; Gabriel Jacobs, baseball, Azusa Paci c; Elli Brown eld, gymnastics, Lindenwood; Logan Matthews, football, New Mexico Highlands; Jacob Bostelman, wrestling, Northwestern; Lyam Edwards, football West Texas A&M; Jack Taylor, football, Briar Cli ; Cape Olsen, football, Ft. Lewis. underRidge: Jack Bakke, swimming, Chapman; Josie Byrne, track and eld, South Dakota Mines; Kenny Carpenter, track and eld, Colorado State; Kira Chaney, volleyball, Hartford; Nate Geiger, football, Wyoming; Sam Green, lacrosse, Woester; Jonah Lassen, baseball, Bethel; Aiden Olshan, football, Wyoming; Ryan Oro, golf, Charleston; Kaden Shouse, football, Wyoming. Rock Canyon: Savanna Barbosa, lacrosse, Tampa; Sean Barta, Baseball, Pima Community College; Luc Belvill, lacrosse, Stevenson; Bryce Bienvenu, baseball, Centenary; Ben Case, track, Cornell College; Neila Castaneda, basketball, Luther;Alex Cutone, lacrosse, Boston U; Murrie Dodge, cross country, track, New Mexico St.; Aidan Duda, football, Western Colorado; Abby Gardner, swimming, Bu alo; Addison Gilbertson, lacrosse, Old Dominion; Chase Goode, baseball, Miles Community College; Alina Hajewski, volleyball, Trenton St.; Gavin Hershberger, basketball, Upper Iowa; Chase Jaworsky, baseball, Union Valley; Carsen Krell, baseball, Morningside; Savannah Larsen, lacrosse,Ohio Northern; Jasper Lorenz, soccer, William & Mary; Samantha Loft, soccer, South Dakota; Ethan Meyer, lacrosse, LeMoyne; Daniel Morton, lacrosse, William Penn; Ben Rome, basketball, Gustavus Adolphus; JT Shank, baseball, Paci c; Ava Todd, soccer, Kent St.; Addison Vali, soccer, SMU;

Michael Vargas, cross country, track, UCCS.

Aiden Olshan:Colorado Mesa University for Football

Ryan Oro:University of Charleston for Golf

Kaden Shouse:University of Wyoming for Footb

Valor Christian: Cashel Dugger, baseball, UCLA; Gavin Hunt, baseball, Azusa Paci c; Brn Leikam, baseball, Wichita St.; Carson Tinney, baseball, Notre Dame; Anna Allison, basketball, Arizona Christian; Sydney Baller, basketball, Mass Institute of Technology; Macey Huard, basketball, Montana; Ali Wetta, basketball, Utah State; Taylor Rorick, cross country, track, Creighton; Brooke Wilson, cross country, track, Wake Forest; Rowdy Beers, football, Florida International; Brody Bliek, football, Northern Colorado; Tanner Morley, football, Colorado State; Trey Stott, football, San Diego; Roman Bradley, football, Air Force; Elle Higgins, golf, Montana; Anya Turner, gymnastics, Georgia; Audra Dial, lacrosse. Kent State; Reagan Diggy, lacrosse, Duke; Kyle Green, lacrosse, William Jewell; Kaley Kakac, lacrosse, John Hopkins; Kadin Bolin, soccer, Wartburg; Sabin Bolin, soccer, Wartburg;Zac Brooks, soccer, Cedarville; Jaiden Kinch, soccer, South Alabama; Julia Lambert, soccer, John Brown; Anja Lewis, soccer, Abilene Christian; Ella Lloyd, soccer, Adams St.; Patrick Mandy, soccer, South Carolina;Jo Sees, soccer, Kansas St.;Addie Whitehouse, soccer, Santa Clara; Peyton Holmes, track, Northwest Missouri St.; Jack Wetterling, track, Colorado State; Jocelyn Millican, cross country, track, Davidson; Peyton Brown, volleyball, Mass Institute of Technology; Sasha Cohen, volleyball, Central Florida; Erin McNair, volleyball, Princeton; Shearn Tucker, volleyball, Vassar.

Answers

Diversifying the field and regulatory challenges

According to the American Psychological Association, 84.47% of active psychologists in 2020 were White compared to 6.18% who were Hispanic, 4.24% who were Black and 3.22% who were Asian.

“We know that our workforce in Colorado isn’t diverse enough,” said Haden of Envision:You. “So, how are we developing a future workforce that represents the identities of the people that live in our communities?”

In addition to his work with Envision:You, Haden said he works as a mental health therapist for a small practice that primarily serves queer clients. Last year, the practice had a year-long waitlist.

“Poor folks (and) communities of color are not getting appropriate care. And so what happens is people quickly disengage from services, so while they have greater needs, the pool of people that are best equipped to serve them is much smaller,” Haden said, explaining the higher rates of suicidality is partly because people can’t get the help they need.

Jae said something that gets in the way a lot, speci cally for therapists of color, is the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), which is Colorado’s regulatory agency that manages the licensing and registration of various professions.

“ e restrictions that are starting to come down to the point where it makes it di cult for therapists to stay licensed because they are trying to protect their clients,” Jae said.

When Crow asked what needs to be changed, Jae said the whole agency needs to be reassessed.

“Speci cally around licensing, registry, supports for therapists. While I am fully supportive and understanding on the need for DORA to protect clients, there also needs to be protection for therapists that are doing the work,” Jae said.

“Protections from what?” Crow asked. “What are the therapists encountering at DORA?”

Jae said, for example, the YouthSeen nonpro t works with young people who are coming out as transgender and nonbinary.

“And we have to deal with schools, we have to deal with parents. And often the parents are not supportive, so complaints then come in against those therapists who are trying to protect those youth.

“And then those youth end up being harmed not only from the parents, but also from the school district, also from the insurance companies, and it’s literally therapists trying to support those youth,” Jae said.

In Colorado, a person 12 years of age or older can get psychotherapy services with or without the consent of their guardian if the mental health professional determines the minor is “knowingly and voluntarily seeking the psychotherapy services and the psychotherapy services are clinically necessary,” according to the Colorado General Assembly’s website.

“We have parents who will literally call and be like, ‘I know you’re seeing my child.’ And the way that we hold con dentiality, we will say, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about,’” Jae said.

“And, because you don’t give that information, a complaint comes into DORA, DORA has to investigate it, and it comes out of our pockets. It goes against our insurance, and we, then, have to nd a lawyer to be able to confront them — but then also, it takes away from actually supporting youth,” Jae said, explaining parents sometimes get the school involved, creating another challenge.

According to the Trevor Project’s survey, 42% of LGBTQ youth identied school as an a rming space. Approximately 22% reported their family as o ering high social support, compared to 78% saying their family o ered low to moderate support.

Haden said Envision:You aims to develop an integrated wellness campus that includes transition housing for youth, permanent housing for older adults, a clinic and a wellness center.

“We’re focused on intergenerational programming (and) how we can create opportunities for young people that are unhoused and have been through extraordinary trauma,” he said, adding he would like to discuss it with Crow.

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