Who is Frontera?
Charlie Davis, LPC, MA:
Founder, primary clinician, 35-year Colorado crisis veteran, 10 year co-responder, emergency mental health clinician.
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Jane Bryant, LPC, MA:
Mentor, supervisor, 37-year Colorado crisis veteran, multi-decade crisis manager.
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Jacob Midkiff LPC, MA:
Second clinician, 10-year Colorado crisis veteran, crisis supervisor, emergency mental health innovator.
Who can use this service?
Colorado Sheriffs Offices and Police Departments.
Maybe someday we can cover more ground, but mental health licensing stuff is in the way right now. Also, we are funded by Colorado state dollars at the moment, so...
Who pays for all this?
Grants, so far.
We are wrapping up our first grant March 31, '25, and start the next one April 1, 2025. We have also received some jaw-droppingly generous contributions from local businesses and families that may come into play to extend our funding beyond March '26.
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Vision​
Of course grants are a great starting point, but the end-game vision is for rural agencies to work together to solve their own problem and fund their own solutions. This is probably a LOT less costly than you imagine; it's hard to give numbers because the more participants there are, the less we each spend, at least up to a point; so how much it costs will depend on how many of us decide to play ball. If we had ten participating counties/municipalities (and, we've already got six, maybe seven; see Who Is Already Participating) and if we didn't have to add staff, we could keep the lights on for about $900-1000 per month, each.
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Also, some of our counties and towns have a lot more revenue than others. We have ideas for offering a sliding scale of sorts. Some have more calls for service than others, too.
We have some planning to do, and very much need your input.
Who is already participating?
As of November, 2024​
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Rio Blanco Sheriff Anthony Mazzola. Sheriff Mazzola holds the grant. Town of Meeker shares in their participation.
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Mofatt County Sheriff K.C. Hume. Town of Craig may soon share in their participation.
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Weld County Undersheriff Donnie Patch. Weld's more populous areas have on-scene co-response. We serve their rural areas.
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Jackson County Sheriff Jarrod Poley.
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Bent County Sheriff Jake Six. Handshake agreement, MOU pending.
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Mesa County Undersheriff Matt King. Formal MOU pending.
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Sheriff Don Wilson, Delores County.
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Town of Meeker Chief of Police Ed Thompson. Shares the service with Rio Blanco.
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Town of Craig In early discussions
Who else is providing this service?
As far as we know, there are no other providers with our goals: we formed to offer rural law enforcement--rural law enforcement specifically--immediate on-scene behavioral health consultations. We have a great model, it's fast and simple, so others may need us, too...but we are here primarily for you.