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County public health director outlines 2025–2027 CHIP priorities including behavioral health and air monitoring
Summary
Health director reviewed the community health improvement plan: priorities are adult and youth mental-health and substance-use, air pollution monitoring, in-home services and family planning expansion, and harm-reduction outreach including naloxone and test strips.
At a Board of Health work session Dec. 9, Public Health Director Tim Ryan presented Clear Creek County’s 2025–2027 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), identifying five priority areas and progress to date.
Ryan said the county’s priorities are adult and youth mental health and substance-use treatment and prevention, air-quality monitoring and response, expanding in-home and family-planning services and improving connections to community resources. He described local initiatives already underway: a Behavioral Health Coalition (county-led cross-sector group), Mountain Youth Network programs that are fully enrolled, harm-reduction kits and naloxone distribution (about 40 kits/month), and improved air-quality monitoring including regulatory-grade sensors from CDOT that provide higher-quality data for advocacy.
Ryan emphasized that the CHIP is an unfunded mandate in many parts and that progress has come through grants and partnerships. Commissioners raised housing and indoor-air quality as social-determinant concerns, asked about needle/medical-waste disposal options (clinic and sheriff’s office can accept sharps in proper containers), and discussed recent work to train school and community members in naloxone administration.
No formal action was taken; the board heard the update, asked for follow-up on particular topics (housing and air-monitoring data availability) and thanked staff for the report.
