Project BLOOM for Children’s Mental Health 

Project BLOOM for Children's Mental Health will primarily target children through age five with serious emotional disturbances (SED) in Aurora, El Paso, Fremont and Mesa counties. Project BLOOM will provide resources to improve behavioral health and increase school readiness. Also, Project BLOOM will increase systemwide capacity of services and improve quality and availability of mental health services throughout these communities. Project BLOOM will provide enhanced training, integrated delivery of supports, and statewide work groups focusing on system improvements. Trainings will be provided to staff from childcare and preschool programs, pediatricians, mental health centers, and foster care programs. This should increase community capacity to identify young children with SED at an earlier age and provide mental health services. Each county has a consolidated childcare pilot program that focuses on systemwide improvements for quality of early childhood care and education (ECE), incorporating mental health as a focus. Project BLOOM will broaden the reach of the consolidated childcare pilots to address young children with SED in multiple systems such as child welfare. Project BLOOM will also link into statewide efforts to improve children's mental health services, including the Policy Academy, Harambe Colorado, Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health, and Kid Connects.

Jill Erickson
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1926
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: jill.erickson@samhsa.hhs.gov 

Claudia Zundel
Principal Investigator/Program Director
Colorado Department of Human Services
Division of Mental Health Services
3824 West Princeton Circle
Denver, CO 80236
Phone: 303-866-7528
Fax: 303-866-7470
E-mail: Claudia.Zundel@state.co.us

Cordelia Robinson
Co-Principal Investigator
JFK Partners
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
4200 E. Ninth Avenue, Box C221
Denver, CO  80262
Phone: 303-864-5261
Fax: 303-864-5270
E-mail: Robinson.Cordelia@tchden.org 

Sarah Davidon
Program Director
JFK Partners/UCHSC
4200 E. Ninth Avenue, C234
Denver, CO  80262
Phone: 303-315-2152
Fax: 303-315-7386
E-mail: Sarah.Davidon@UCHSC.edu 

Chris Ely
Pikes Peak Mental Health Center
220 Ruskin Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80910
Phone: 719-572-6142
Fax: 719-572-6168
E-mail: christinee@ppmhc.org 

Kat Emmons
West Central Regional Mental Health Center
744 Horizon court
Suite 140
Grand Junction, CO 84506
Phone: 970-244-3807
Fax: 970-245-6660
E-mail: kemmons@wcrmhc.org 

Lisa Jansen Thompson
Aurora Mental Health Center
14301 E. Hampden Avenue
Aurora, CO 80014
Phone: 303-617-2466
Fax: 303-617-2475
E-mail: lisajansenthompson@aumhc.org 

Heather Zimmerman
West Central Mental Health Center
3225 Independence Road
Canon City, CO 81212
E-mail: heatherz@wcmhc.org