A Way Out
A Way Out fills the gaps of services that are essential for overcoming substance use disorder – providing free Substance Use Disorder mental health assessments, streamlined navigation and referrals, and partial scholarships for both Inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment programs to individuals and families in Pitkin, Garfield, Eagle, and Summit Counties. To help re-gain self-sufficiency, A Way Out also provides a year of case-managed aftercare, peer engagement, life skills, social activities, and access to transitional housing. Families of loved ones who struggle with substances get free therapy sessions and support groups to learn about the disease of substance use to support their own healing journey. If you or your family struggle with substances, there are many ways A Way Out can help.
Valley Settlement
Valley Settlement listens to Latina families, together creating opportunities for early childhood and adult education, connection, and growth, so children and families can thrive. They envision an equitable and inclusive community that nurtures cultural connection and a sense of belonging so all can reach their full potential. Valley Settlement administers programs through a two-generation lens to support whole families and encourage responsive relationships, providing programs including Learning with Love, El Busesito Preschool, Parent Mentor, Lifelong Learning, Family Friends, and Neighbors, and Alma Peer Support.
Crested Butte State of Mind
CB State of Mind connects the community to mental and behavioral health resources, education, and free counseling scholarships to improve mental wellness, eliminate stigma, and lower the rate of suicide in the Gunnison Valley. Scholarships are available to pay for sessions with a partnering therapist for people who are uninsured or under-insured. CB State of Mind also works with the community to partner and create events and opportunities for meaningful connections and positive interactions amongst attendees, including artistic and physical fitness offerings, the green light for mental health campaign, youth programming, support groups, suicide prevention trainings, monthly connection dinners for men, and a better. together. personal story sharing and peer connection support program.
Gunnison Valley Health
Gunnison Valley Health is a community-owned health system serving Gunnison County, and they are proud to provide a comprehensive spectrum of care designed to meet the individual needs of the community and visitors from birth through end of life. Gunnison Valley Health is not just a hospital, it is a fully integrated health system that includes almost every aspect of healthcare, including outpatient mental and behavioral health, peer support, school-based, jail based, mobile crisis services in multiple languages. Through service offerings and strong community partnerships, Gunnison Valley Health provides both clinical and supportive services to address a broad spectrum of needs.
In recent years, shifting federal policies and rhetoric have created deep uncertainty for immigrant families in the Gunnison Valley, leaving many feeling unsafe, hesitant, and less likely to seek care. This climate of fear has taken a serious toll on mental and behavioral health—intensifying stress, anxiety, and isolation while making it harder to trust institutions or reach out for support when help is most needed.
That is why GVH’s Bilingual Patient Navigator Program and in-person medical interpreters are more vital now than ever. They do more than translate; they build trust, bridge cultural divides, and help patients facing mental and behavioral health challenges feel understood, respected, and supported. The program began in 2023, serving 392 patients in its first year—an early indicator of unmet need even before structured outreach had begun. In 2024, utilization increased dramatically to 975 patients served, representing nearly 150% year-over-year growth and underscoring the essential role bilingual navigators play in improving outcomes, strengthening patient confidence, and ensuring access to care with dignity.
Vail Health Behavioral Health
In response to community need and to support a coordinated plan for funding, accountability, and fundraising, a backbone organization was essential. Eagle Valley Behavioral Health was established to lead community collaboration, ensuring access to high-quality behavioral health services for everyone in Eagle County.
Partnering with more than 25 local organizations, including valley businesses, community groups, mental health providers, school districts, government entities, first responders, and communicators, Eagle Valley Behavioral Health collaborates on behavioral health initiatives and provides the critical leadership needed to support a long-term vision for a robust, sustainable behavioral health system, with the goal of building resilience and increasing overall well-being.
As behavioral health care continues to grow within the Vail Health system, all related services are now aligned under the Vail Health Behavioral Health brand. Vail Health Behavioral Health includes Eagle Valley Behavioral Health, the Mountain Strong Employee Assistance Program, the Wiegers Mental Health Clinic, and the Precourt Healing Center, which opened in May 2025 and is the only inpatient mental health facility between Denver and Salt Lake City.
My Future Pathways
My Future Pathways provides a helping hand to empower and enhance the lives of young Latino community members and their families, inspiring youth to ignite their grit and passion to achieve the ultimate goals of graduation, employability, and leadership for a fulfilling and productive life. Through a bicultural approach, they bridge achievement and opportunity gaps through mentorship, youth center programming, skill building and wellness, tutoring, and scholarships for post-secondary education.
RECONNECTED
RECONNECTED is a nonprofit recovery community organization serving Eagle County, dedicated to providing peer support services, social events, community education, and ending the stigma surrounding addiction. RECONNECTED empowers individuals in recovery by fostering a sense of community and connection, promoting education and awareness, and advocating for change.
The Health Partnership
The Health Partnership connects individuals facing barriers such as poverty, isolation and health issues, with the resources they need to achieve health and well-being. We identify systems level gaps and facilitate collaborative and equitable conversations with community partners, healthcare organizations and individuals to identify and test equitable community driven solutions to our most thorny challenges.
Offering care coordination and recovery support, Peer Recovery Specialists and Recovery Support Coordinators connect community members to a network of treatment facilities, accessing services and reducing barriers to treatment for substance use disorders.
Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide
Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide (REPS) is a not-for-profit organization serving community members in Routt and Moffat County. REPS provides crisis support, education, training, suicide prevention and postvention support, and is dedicated to combating suicide and breaking mental health stigma. REPS preserves, protects, and promotes life by fostering suicide prevention and providing a lifeline of support and healing in the Yampa Valley.
Building Hope Summit County
Building Hope Summit County is a community-wide initiative designed to create a more coordinated, effective, and responsive mental health system that promotes emotional health, reduces stigma, and improves access to care and support for everyone in Summit County. Key programs include mental health training, connectedness events, mental health navigation, The Hype (teen programming), and providing mental health scholarships for under and uninsured community members.
Elevated Community Health
Elevated Community Health is a nonprofit healthcare organization serving individuals of all backgrounds, including low-income, uninsured, and underinsured populations across Summit, Lake, and Park Counties in Colorado. Elevated Community Health empowers patients to achieve their health goals by delivering care in the right place, at the right time, and in ways that best meet individual needs.
Its Primary Care, Dental, and Behavioral Health teams collaborate to provide integrated, team-based services that address patients’ physical, oral, and emotional health. Patients receive personalized, compassionate care designed to support them on their journey toward improved health and wellness.
Behavioral health providers work closely with medical teams to promote patients’ social, emotional, and behavioral well-being, ensuring whole-person care. Services may include short-term, solution-focused interventions to address immediate concerns or longer-term treatment for more complex and persistent conditions.
FIRC Summit Resource Center
Family Intercultural Resource Center is Summit County’s resource for food security, community health, financial empowerment, and peer support. Focusing on mental health, Peer Support Services empower individuals to cultivate social networks and drive positive transformations in their lives. Parents benefit from resources, enhanced child development knowledge, and positive parenting skills through interactions with Parent Educators, fostering connections within the community.
ALMA is a free program offered to Spanish speaking women. Paired with a Peer or Compañera, participants meet one on one to break down barriers of isolation and create strong connections in and to the Summit County community and its resources.
ACCION is a peer support program for Latino men in Summit County – a safe, confidential, and judgment-free space where men overcome societal pressures that generate discomfort and get the support they need. ACCION helps men create a better quality of life for themselves and their families.
San Miguel Resource Center
San Miguel Resource Center (SMRC) is dedicated to helping clients break the cycle of interpersonal violence, supporting individuals through every stage of healing—wherever they are, however they identify, through both the pain and the strength in each person’s story. Providing individual and group support for adults, cultural and rural outreach, and prevention education for local K-12 students, SMRC is an unwavering advocate for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Telluride Regional Medical Center
Telluride Regional Medical Center is a full-spectrum rural health care provider offering primary care with integrated behavioral health services for children, adolescents, and adults. Licensed providers work collaboratively to deliver evidence-based mental health care and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for substance use disorders, ensuring coordinated, compassionate, and patient-centered care.
Tri-County Health Network
Tri-County Health Network (TCHN) is a community-based nonprofit working to improve health equity across rural communities by expanding access to affordable, high-quality care. TCHN develops and implements innovative programs that address both physical and behavioral health needs while reducing barriers to care.
TCHN offers robust behavioral health programming, including therapy scholarship assistance, prevention, and education, alongside food assistance, health insurance enrollment support, care coordination, and navigation services. Through strong multicultural advocacy efforts, TCHN works to foster belonging, dignity, and inclusion for all community members, ensuring that services are accessible, culturally responsive, and rooted in community trust.
Holy Cross Ministries
Holy Cross Ministries (HCM) was created to respond to the needs of underrepresented communities in Utah. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and acceptance are integral, and which define the organization. A social justice emphasis – building just, compassionate, sustainable, and inclusive communities – is at the core of all we do.
Focusing on health and well-being, bicultural outreach workers – known as Promotoras – are based in the community and low-income clinics throughout Northern Utah. They teach regular prenatal health classes and provide case management, facilitate support groups, provide health access, referrals, and translation services.
Jacky’s Recovery Support Services
Jacky’s Recovery Support Services (JRSS) is a 501-C3 non-profit focused on providing behavioral health services to the Latinx community, raising awareness about mental illness and substance use disorders in the Latino population and other diverse communities in Utah.
With a goal to increase the number of Latinos in Utah who are maintaining a state of recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders, JRSS empowers Latinos in recovery to give back to their community and impact the mental health system in Utah to be more culturally and linguistically responsive.
Their peer-to-peer system of recovery for Latinos includes outreach, mentoring, classes, and support groups. It is organized and executed by family members and consumers in recovery from serious mental illness, including substance use disorders.
The People’s Health Clinic
People’s Health Clinic is a volunteer-driven, community-sponsored non-profit clinic providing high quality, no cost healthcare to uninsured residents of Summit and Wasatch Counties in Utah. We are passionate about the service we provide and express our mission in three short but powerful words “Here, We Care.”
At the People’s Health Clinic, our diverse patients, team members, and community partners are empowered to shape our programs and operations, ensuring their voices are heard and their agency respected. We are committed to actively combating all forms of discrimination within our organization, fostering an inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and respected. Through programs like mental and behavioral health medication management, counseling for depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and other mental health issues, we aim to address disparities in health outcomes driven by systemic inequity.
Sierra Community House
Outreach rooted within community
To address the significant mental health disparities of Latino residents in the Tahoe Truckee community, Sierra Community House offers the Promotora Program. SCH Promotoras (or community wellness educators) play a key role in advancing community health by offering peer support and education programs related to chronic disease and mental health. Rooted in the community they serve, SCH Promotoras build deep relationships and have been effective in reaching underserved Latino families and individuals in Truckee and North Tahoe. SCH Promotoras serve as liaisons between community members, health professionals, and social service organizations. In the last year, SCH’s Community Engagement work, which includes the Promotora team, interacted with thousands of community members, providing over 1,599 services that include Latino outreach, children’s workshops, health and wellness programs, parenting classes, and peer support.
Tahoe Truckee Unified School District
Improving students’ mental health through wellness services hub
Tahoe Truckee Unified School District’s (TTUSD) eight K-12 Wellness Centers help students connect to a hub of comprehensive wellness supports. The Wellness Centers offer a wide range of services, including SEL skill building, regulation support, health education, peer mentoring, and student empowerment groups, as well as targeted interventions such as substance use navigation and mental health screenings. By providing on-site therapists and direct referrals to community resources, the Wellness Program ensures students have access and linkage to the support they need. The Wellness Program also oversees a district-wide Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Initiative that includes a universal SEL Screener, robust K-12 curriculum and strategies, and mindfulness practices to enhance student focus and self-regulation. TTUSD promotes a culture of belonging through the Caring Connections survey—which identifies students’ positive relationships with staff—and Restorative Practice Circles–which facilitate stronger connections between students, staff, and peers. Since launching the Wellness Centers in 2012, there have been significant improvements in student health outcomes, including a 25% increase in high school students who feel connected to school; a 34% decrease in high school students who felt sad or hopeless for two weeks or more; and a 68% decrease in high school students who seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months. The TTUSD Wellness Program is supported by Placer and Nevada counties, Tahoe Forest Hospital, the Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation, and the Katz Amsterdam Foundation, and works closely with the Community Collaborative of Tahoe Truckee (CCTT) partners to holistically support students and their families.
Community Safety Network
Community Safety Network is dedicated to providing safe, accessible, and compassionate support for all survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, believing that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, respect, and fairness—regardless of their background or life circumstances. Everyone deserves a path to safety, healing, and hope.
Our commitment to inclusivity means actively working to reduce barriers to care and ensuring that our services meet the needs of the diverse individuals and families we serve. It aligns with federal non-discrimination standards and evidence-based practices that support survivor healing.
Mental Health and Recovery Services of Jackson Hole
Through adult, child, and family services, substance use treatment, and drop-in mental health care, Mental Health and Recovery Services of Jackson Hole delivers compassionate, and affordable mental health and substance use services that support the strength and resilience of Teton County’s diverse and growing community, dedicated to providing compassionate, professional, and affordable counseling programs that treat the whole person.
Teton Behavioral Health Alliance
The Teton Behavioral Health Alliance works to improve the behavioral health care system in Teton County, Wyoming at a systems level through high-level, cross-sectoral collaboration. As such, the Teton Behavioral Health Alliance facilitates community-wide actions that enhance prevent, treatment, and crisis response efforts while addressing the gaps and inequities in the system to benefit all who live and work in Teton County. Well-being is not only a result of individual choices; it is also determined by the quality of connections and connectivity to others, a sense of belonging, and the ability to access resources. The Teton Behavioral Health Alliance recognizes that together they have the power to shape experiences and trajectory as a community.
TogetherWe
TogetherWe is a long-term, community-powered effort to strengthen connection and mental well-being for every resident in Blaine County — now and for generations to come.
We lift up the work of local partners by organizing and aligning community resources, identifying gaps, seeding solutions, and amplifying action — making it easier for people to find connection and support in one trusted place.
This gives people a place to turn early, access care they can afford, and feel more connected within their community.
Men’s Second Chance Living
Men’s Second Chance Living helps men achieve sustained recovery from substance use disorders and successfully reenter society by promoting a proven and comprehensive process for men recovering from substance use disorders that includes sober living, health and wellness, workforce return, and the reestablishment of relationships.
Be Well Big Sky
Be Well Big Sky reimagines community care in a rural mountain town by meeting people where they are and strengthening the web of support that surrounds individuals and organizations. The initiative focuses on upstream suicide prevention, emotional first aid, access to care, and collective well-being through trauma-informed, peer-based, and culturally responsive approaches. Its work lives at the intersection of connection and collaboration and is grounded in three core strategies: the volunteer Navigator Network, which trains trusted community members to offer in-the-moment emotional support, connect people to essential resources, and reduce stigma across workplaces, schools, housing, and the broader community; Edutainment, a storytelling-centered approach that builds trust and awareness through joyful, community-driven events; and Collective Action, which aligns local partners to assess needs, fill gaps, and embed care into the everyday systems that shape Big Sky life.
Wellness in Action
Wellness in Action improves community wellbeing by providing a network of mental and behavioral health resources for people who live and work in Big Sky. What began as support for general health initiatives and scholarship opportunities to bridge the gap for individuals and families are now defined programs and direct services that provide access to mental and behavioral health care for underserved populations.
Wellness in Action provides a comprehensive counseling and direct-service support platform, including the Affordable Counseling Program, providing a range of reduced-cost counseling options available in person, via telehealth, and in Spanish; free services by Community Health Workers who provide wrap-around peer and case management support, mental and behavioral health trainings and education opportunities; and scholarships for people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access services. Wellness in Action also provides athletic, enrichment, and camp scholarships for Big Sky youth.