Collier Coalition for Healthy Minds Launched to address the mental health and addiction crisis in our community

Old Naples New features Collier Coalition for Healthy

Minds (CCHM) who is “charged

with mobilizing Collier

County's first-ever, five-year

mental health and addiction

services strategic plan.

The Coalition was

born out of an Ad Hoc committee with

members appointed by the Collier County

Board of Commissioners whose sole

purpose was to create the strategic plan.

The plan was adopted in December 2019

and CCHM was formerly established in

2020 with expanded community members

representing healthcare, social service

legal and justice system professionals, and

mental health advocates.

The CCHM mission is to respond to

the growing mental health and addiction

crisis currently being compounded by the

coronavirus pandemic, opioid epidemic,

and suicide crisis.

"All Americans face

challenges in

life that can impact their mental health,

especially during a pandemic.”

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