Mile High Magazine 1/26/2025 Colorado Access Foundation

Guest: Cassidy Smith Executive Director

Colorado Access has been around for 30 years, they are the largest Medicaid health plan in the state, and they established our foundation, the Colorado Access Foundation in the fall of 2021.  Forming the foundation was a way for the company Colorado Access to ensure that there is dedicated resources and funding available to tackle some of the root causes of health disparities that we see in our state.  The Colorado Access Foundation works with partners and funding partners who are focused on building a more diverse healthcare workforce in our state.  Also improving the key conditions that affect health like access to housing, food and transportation.  Colorado Access Foundation gave a grant to Capital TGTHR, they're an organization in Colorado that's working to end youth homelessness.  The grant allowed them to hire a full-time behavioral health clinician to be on site at a new supportive housing site called Nest 56.

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