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    Faculty Leadership

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    Douglas K. Novins, MD

    Community, Population, and Public Mental Health Division Chair

    Administrative Leadership

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    Rachael Anderson, MBA, MSW, LCSW

    Division Administrator

    Rachael Anderson, MBA, MSW, LCSW is an Instructor and the Division Administrator of Division of Community, Population, and Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine. This Division includes a diverse set of programs encompassing community and provider education, college mental health services, forensic mental health, telemedicine, programs with American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and state-operated mental health and correctional facilities.   Her clinical work focuses primarily on child and adolescent mental health and sits on the Junior Faculty Committee for the SOM.  In her administrative roles, she supports the social work training programs and co-chairs the retention sub committee for the DoP DEI committee.  

    Contact Us

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    303-724-4940

    Address:

    13001 East 17th Place

    Q20-C2000

    Aurora, CO 80045

     

     

    About Us

    The Division of Community, Population, and Public Mental Health is the newest division within the Department of Psychiatry.  The largest group of direct care providers practice on the Auraria, CDOC, Ft Logan, and Pueblo campuses and move our mission and vision forward in the community.  Here on AMC, our faculty, staff, and research professionals drive our mission forward through work with provider and community health advocate education and trainings.  We are also engaged in telepsych through our UPL grant as well as other projects such in the innovative spaces of app development and VR.  The CPP division is rapidly growing through expansions in the forensic space, community engagement, and collaboration with our partners at the State level to create a Learning Management System for healthcare across the state of Colorado.  

    In addition to the division's Mission and Vision Statements, we are guided by our CPP values found below:

    Values

    Partnership: We believe that collaboration with federal, state, and local organizations is key to providing comprehensive, high quality, evidenced based mental and substance abuse health services. 
    Innovation: We are committed to building and utilizing the evidence base as science makes services better, from prevention and early intervention to treatment and recovery.

    Advocacy: We advocate for exemplary public mental health policy to support individuals struggling with mental illnesses and substance use disorders, their families, and the  providers that serve them.

    Humility: We strive to learn from the community members, providers, program leaders, and policymakers we are privileged to work with as well from our successes, and failures.

    Social justice: We challenge each other to recognize the richness of diversity, health equity, and inclusive- and culturally-competent practice.


     Vision

    A mental health system that is accessible, equitable, evidence-based, and excellent.

    Mission

    We partner with community-based and public-serving organizations in the provision of evidence-based clinical services, training, program evaluation, and research to improve mental health outcomes for Coloradans and beyond.


     

    About Our Division Chair

    Douglas K. Novins, MD is Professor and Director of the Division of Community, Population, and Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine. This Division includes a diverse set of programs encompassing community and provider education, college mental health services, forensic mental health, telemedicine, programs with American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and state-operated mental health and correctional facilities. Dr Novins' research focuses on substance-related problems and traumatic experiences among American Indian and Alaska Native people. He holds a secondary academic appointment in the Colorado School of Public Health and serves on the faculty of the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health. His research is currently supported by grants and cooperative agreements with the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Administration for Children and Families. Finally, Dr. Novins is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, a prestigious international scientific journal focusing on child and adolescent mental health. 

    • Research
    • Education
    • Clinical Care
    • Community Outreach
    Research in CPP is varied, some of our projects include:

    Two NIH-funded project focused on improving access to medication-assisted treatments for substance misuse treatment programs serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

    The "Healthy Behaviors Study" examines whether self-reported impulsivity, emotion regulation, and a marker of stress system functioning (i.e. cumulative HPA activity) moderate previously established relationships between early life adversity and health-risk behaviors in adulthood, and whether these relationships may differ between men and women.

    Through a partnership development grant from CCTSI, the "Integrated Addiction and Whole Health Treatment" Project is initiating a translational research project at Front Range Clinic using CBPR principles with the eventual goal of testing the implementation of new tobacco cessation and wellness services for clients in treatment for addiction.

    Using a Community of Practice approach, the primary objective of the "Work and Wellbeing QI Initiative" seeks to support several agencies across the country to integrate tailored workplace wellness initiatives and to assess their impact within each specific agency. A secondary, translational research analysis will 1) investigate whether a Community of Practice approach to implementing operationalized workplace wellness goals is an effective model to improve self-reported employee health and workplace wellness within the behavioral health sector, and 2) characterize the nature of wellness initiatives that had the largest impacts across agencies. 

    CPP collaborates with GME and DoP's Office of Education to support Forensic Fellows and Social Work Fellows.  

    CPP provides direct clinical care at the following sites of practice: 

    Health Center at Auraria: We provide mental health services including medication management in collaboration with MSU

    Colorado Department of Corrections: We provide mental health services including medication management to over 13,000 inmates at 16 facilities across the state of Colorado

    Colorado Mental Health Institutes at Ft Logan and Pueblo: CPP faculty provide direct patient care at both of these facilities targeting forensic and civil populations of adolescents and adults.  Faculty members provide both medical and psychiatric care. 

    CPP is growing in the Community Services space - be on the lookout for an announcement soon!

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