The Colorado Trust is pleased and proud to share that 83 entities have been selected to receive multiyear grants under the seven Community Resilience Initiatives.
These grants commenced July 1 and will continue until the end of 2026. The awarded projects address The Colorado Trust’s strategic plan focus areas of food, housing, and mental and behavioral health. The funding aims to bolster grantees working to respond effectively to community disruptions resulting from economic downturns, social turbulence, public health crises, or a lack of coherent or effective public policy.
Healthy Archuleta received two grants:
• A $355,000 grant in support for expanding mental and behavioral health care access for Spanish-speaking households by training primary care providers in culturally sensitive practices, developing a referral system for households, providing training for bilingual navigators and supporting them getting certified as medical interpreters, increasing access and use of telehealth services in multiple languages, and establishing access to a bilingual mental health provider.
• A $355,000 grant in support for creating a campaign that aims to change the narrative that there’s not enough food, housing, jobs or access to water in Archuleta County, and engaging community members to grow and eat their own healthy foods and create systems and policies to increase access to nutritious food and increase economic stability.
