The Denver Post set out to examine the state of the mental health system in Colorado over the course of several months. We found it is broken, that so many families are struggling to find help and that Colorado is spending millions more to treat mental health at crisis stage than it is to prevent catastrophe. The project is organized in four main parts: the mental health care system, mental illness and criminal justice, mental illness and homelessness, and mental illness in children. The result is a comprehensive look at mental illness at its basic level, not the typical politically charged debate about mass shootings and gun control. It’s an eye-opening series that connected with people through the raw, emotional stories of those who are living through it.
