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Who is Frontera?

Charlie Davis, LPC, MA:

Founder, primary clinician, Colorado crisis veteran since 1990, co-responder since 2015, emergency mental health clinician.​

Jane BryantLPC, MA:

Mentor, supervisor, Colorado crisis veteran since 1987, multi-decade crisis manager.​

Jacob Midkiff LPC, MA:

Second clinician, Colorado crisis veteran since 2015, crisis supervisor, emergency mental health innovator.

Who can use this service?

Colorado Sheriffs Offices and Police Departments.  

Maybe someday we can cover more ground and serve other states, but mental health licensing stuff is in the way right now. 

Who pays for all this?

At the moment?  Only Rio Blanco and Weld counties.

We'll need to rectify that for '27.  Weld has made Frontera a line item.  Rio Blanco has a very generous donation from a local family.  But they shouldn't have to carry this load alone.  This is really working, and we'll need at least something--not necessarily much at all, though--from everybody, eventually.

Vision​

We work together to solve our own problem and fund our own solution.  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.  One idea was to base the annual cost on county revenue.  That's not bad; like, some counties may not have so many residents but may have a lot of tourism, and therefore more calls for service than you might expect.  But the tourists spend money (and occasionally require a mental health intervention), so...

Who is already participating?

As of January, 2026:

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  • Rio Blanco County  Funding and using Frontera for over three years.

  • Mofatt County

  • Weld County Weld's more populous areas have on-scene co-response. We serve their rural areas. Using Frontera for two years.

  • Jackson County? Previous agreement, still in service as far as Frontera is concerned.

  • Bent County.  Handshake agreement.

  • Dolores County.

  • Las Animas County

  • Mineral County

  • Ouray County

  • Elbert County

  • Archuleta County

  • Sedgwick County 

  • Town of Meeker. Shares the service with Rio Blanco.

  • Town of Craig 

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.

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