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The UCCS Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience was recently awarded nearly $400,000 from El Paso County leaders. The money will be used to expand a mental health and trauma training program.
Irv Lichtenwald, President & CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation We’re now in a new year and new presidential administration. At least three companies are producing effective COVID-19 vaccines, which are being administered to healthcare workers, teachers, and the elderly. By summer, hopefully a large majority of the population in most countries will be vaccinated. From where the world now stands, we can see an end to prolonged isolation, trauma, fear, grief, and economic torpor. But out of the woods, we are not. The virus mutates, perhaps more rapidly than expected. Maybe the existing...
El Paso County Public Health Director Susan Wheelan speaks to the Board of County Commissioners on August 11, 2020, with Dr. Charles Benight, director of the National Institute for Human Resilience at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, in the background. Wheelan and Benight presented to the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners on the Greater Resilience Intervention Teams program earlier this month, alongside speakers Mary Ellen Benson and Lori Jarvis-Steinwert (not pictured), who represented program partners AspenPointe and the National Alliance on Mental Illness-Colorado...