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When Crisis Access of Colorado won a bid to reform the state’s mental health services, its leader planned to bring the “A-Team” to serve the state’s poor and mentally ill. Instead, mental health lobbyists used political connections to pressure state leaders out of its contract.

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When Crisis Access of Colorado won a bid to reform the state’s mental health services, its leader planned to bring the “A-Team” to serve the state’s poor and mentally ill. But mental health lobbyists used political connections to pressure state leaders out of their contract.

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A schizophrenic man had opened fire on a packed movie theater in Aurora, killing 12 and injuring dozens more. Something had to be done. The Aurora theater shooter had tried to get mental health treatment...

A schizophrenic man had opened fire on a packed movie theater in Aurora, killing 12 and injuring dozens more.

As Colorado embarks on a new attempt to reform mental health care, events in 2014 offer a look at how difficult it can be to impose change.

He’d been homeless for a couple of months early in February when Nile Woolery, 63, found himself trying to sleep beneath the Osage River bridge in Tuscumbia.

He'd been homeless for a couple of months early in February when Nile Woolery, 63, found himself trying to sleep beneath the Osage River bridge in Tuscumbia.