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Advocacy: Colorado Conversations for Better Healthcare

Colorado Conversations for Better Health Care or Healthcare Advocacy seeks to increase awareness, education and involvement of citizens throughout Colorado in ongoing discussions about healthcare policy at the local, state and federal levels.

Aurora LIGHTS

Aurora LIGHTS has an extensive number of comprehensive programs that assist students from elementary through health professional schools to succeed in their education and achieve their goals of becoming future health professionals.

Cavity Free at Three

Cavity Free at Three is a Colorado-based program aimed at preventing oral disease in young children and pregnant women.

CREATE Health

CREATE Health Scholars is a new program for Colorado undergraduate college students interested in health professional careers (medicine, physician assistantships, behavioral health, advanced practice nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and medical research).

Colorado Fetal Alcohol and Other Prenatal Substance Abuse Prevention

COFAS is a statewide fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and prenatal substance abuse prevention outreach program housed within the Colorado Area Health Education Center System of the University of Colorado Denver.

Health Professions Workforce Initiative

The Health Professions Workforce Initiative is a grant funded by The Colorado Trust. The Colorado AHECS and the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center are working to encourage rural and underserved high school students to explore health profession careers. The AHECs are also administering a health care scholars program to graduate students in health professions education and training who opt to practice in rural or other underserved sites. Most significantly, this grant developed and continues to support a multidisciplinary curriculum and training program for rural track health professions students.

Interdisciplinary Training and Service

Colorado is facing a shortage of medical professionals, especially in rural communities. The lack of rural healthcare causes some people to forgo preventive care and often immediate treatment for serious conditions. A program at the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus aims to be a solution to that shortage, and the program has expanded to include the Schools of Dental Medicine and Pharmacy, thanks to a $2.4 million grant from Kaiser Permanente Colorado.

Colorado Urban UNderserved Interprofessional Health Training & Education

CU-UNITE

CU-UNITE is a new longitudinal track currently in development for students at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, College of Nursing nurse practitioner program and the physician assistant program.

Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado

The Colorado Area Health Education Center Program Office is a proud sponsor of the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) because we believe in the EFCO’s mission: to prevent, control and cure epilepsy, and to ensure that people with seizure disorders are able to participate in all life experiences.

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