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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Colorado State University (CSU) and CDPHE engaged the community throughout the development of Colorado EnviroScreen version 1 ("v1") to ensure that the tool is as useful and impactful for the community as possible. This report summarizes the engagement process and outcomes and identifies how community input shaped v1. Between August 2021 and April 2022, more than 100 individuals participated in interviews, focus groups, online questionnaires, and...
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Health watch volume no. 93
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The home environment is commonly considered to be a place of safety and comfort for people. However harmful exposures can occur in the home and some Colorado populations have increased risk to these exposures. Unhealthy housing conditions from radon and secondhand smoke exposures occur disproportionately within Colorado populations, resulting in health equity and environmental justice issues.
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The Northwest Corridor NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) process was initiated in 2003 to consider the potential benefits, costs, and impacts of alternative transportation improvements in the northwest Denver Metropolitan area, between the western terminus of the Northwest Parkway in Broomfield County and the SH 58, I-70, and C-470 freeway systems to the south in Jefferson County. Due to lack of funding for construction in the foreseeable future...
13) C-WISE overview
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The Colorado Web-based Integrated Support Environment (C-WISE) is an enterprise solution that combines a web based case management system integrated with treatment providers, law enforcement, and electronic monitoring vendors supported by a call center staffed with 164 operators that assist in data collection and documentation on a 24/7/365 basis. The majority of Community Parole Officer (CPO) functions are automated within the C-WISE system to allow...
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Health watch volume no. 107
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In Colorado and throughout the nation there are growing and concerted public health efforts to reduce suicide and other preventable deaths. On the continuum of mental health care usage and suicide risk are those who have struggled with some form of criminal legal problem. This is a population that has an especially high risk of suicide. Those exiting the criminal justice system on probation have been shown to have significantly higher suicide rates...
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Drug Court is an innovative alternative to prison with emphasis on accountability and intensive monitoring for drug abusing criminal offenders. The drug court removes defendants from the clogged courtrooms of the traditional criminal justice system, placing them in a new type of courtroom environment where they undergo treatment and counseling, submit to frequent and random drug testing, make regular appearances before the judge and are monitored...
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Killing for Coal offers an original perspective on the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews examines the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers' strikes over the course of nearly half a century. He reveals a complex world shaped by the connected forces of land, labor, corporate industrialization,...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A knock-out debut story collection that follows women and families facing economic and environmental justice issues in the American West. Firmly rooted in the rural spaces and small towns of Colorado and Nevada, Site Fidelity spans the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying...