Colorado has been in a serious mental health crisis – the lowest in the country for adult mental health problems and access to care, suicide being the leading cause of death among youth, and significant shortage of psychiatric providers available. Over the past three years, Dr. Jin Lee has been working with lobbying teams, legislators, and stakeholders to resolve the crisis by granting specially trained psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medications, just like five other RxP states and the Department of Defense have been implementing for the past 30 years.

In this webinar, Dr. Lee will discuss the legislation process in Colorado and key elements in succeeding the passage of the prescriptive authority (RxP) bill where strong oppositions from the medical society and psychiatry society have been present. Dr. Lee will also discuss lessons learned from the legislation process given she had limited knowledge in the political field prior to exploring the prescriptive authority initiative. Recommendations for a successful RxP legislative initiatives will be provided.

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