Below are the most current articles. Articles will be listed by date in chronological order.

Latest News

• Posted: 01/27/2012
• Colorado Film premiere of "The Keeper of the Keys" to Benefit AspenPointe
• A portion of the event proceeds will benefit the AspenPointe Peer Navigator Program that provides guidance and support for military families when the hero returns home.

• Posted: 01/24/2012
• USA Today "They Won't Quit"
• Some seniors decide quiet retirement doesnt suit them , preferring to stay active and on the job

• Posted: 11/09/2011
• NPR: Secret to a Long, Healthy Life: Bike to the Store
• Researchers found that if the Midwesterners ran half of their short-distance errands by bike rather than by car, 1,100 deaths would be avoided each year, and $7 billion would be saved in reduced health-care costs.

• Posted: 11/08/2011
• Gazette UCCS-Peak Vista venture a boon for senior services

• Posted: 07/28/2011
• Sarasota Herald Tribune " An Investment for the Ages
• Sarasota County invests in Institute for Aging that hopes to capitalize on growth of older adults.

• Posted: 07/11/2011
• Boston Herald: Former First Lady Gave Powerful Example of Recovery
• Betty Ford became the power of example, lending her great visibility to her great vulnerability, calling the disease of addiction by its name and admitting that, by herself, she was powerless over it.

• Posted: 07/05/2011
• New York Times: The Bicycle Dividend
• More Americans are biking or walking to work these days, in part because public-sector investment is improving the infrastructure they need to get there safely. Further public investments in bike paths and bike lanes are likely to offer a big social payof

• Posted: 06/14/2011
• Flash Mob at Sky Sox Raises Money for AspenPointe Military Services
• About 250 community members participated in a Flash Mob at the Sky Sox game on June 9.

• Posted: 06/08/2011
• KOAA: Governor Signs Restorative Justice Bill Into Law
• Governor John Hickenlooper has signed a restorative justice bill into law. The ceremony took place inside an old courtroom in the Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs.

• Posted: 04/11/2011
• Gazette: Pilot Program to Bring Health Care Providers Together
• In June, a partnership involving every major medical provider in the Colorado Springs region will launch a pilot project aimed at changing the way Medicaid patients receive care.

• Posted: 04/05/2011
• Axiom News: When Capitalism is Therapy
• Emphasizing a business’ strengths is core to the free market and capitalism, and it’s that characteristic that has great potential for creating the change social enterprises working with the marginalized.

• Posted: 03/30/2011
• Axiom News: Social Enterprises in the Business of Bringing Hope
• As an organization supporting businesses with a blended commitment to profit and purpose, AspenPointe Enterprises is, more than anything, in the business of bringing hope

• Posted: 02/14/2011
• Health News Digest: Valentine's Day Tips for Couples or Singles
• There’s little doubt that Valentine’s Day can be tough on singles who are subjected to this culture’s fairy tales about love, rampant commercialism and Hollywood movies

• Posted: 01/31/2011
• Sweet Deal: Partnership With Gourmet Coffee Company Helps Clients, Other Nonprofits
• When Paul Pegler started working for AspenPointe five years ago, he never imagined that he would end up helping others in need.

• Posted: 01/28/2011
• KOAA: Soldiers Tackle War Wounds Using a New Arsenal
• Paints, brushes, and canvases compose this new armory, which is housed at the Bemis School of Art at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, and soldiers use these tools to heal on a weekly basis.

• Posted: 01/26/2011
• Obama Calls for Bipartisan Effort to Fight for U.S. Jobs
• President Obama challenged Americans on Tuesday night to unleash their creative spirit, set aside their partisan differences and come together around a common goal of outcompeting other nations in a rapidly shifting global economy.

• Posted: 01/19/2011
• Huffington Post: Why Is Mental Illness Still So Stigmatized?
• People who wouldn't dream of saying a racial or ethnic slur glibly talk about nut cakes, lunatics and crazies.

• Posted: 01/13/2011
• KOAA: Mental Illness and Violent Acts
• Mental illness is one of the factors that is likely part of the Tucson tragedy. It is something mental health professionals say needs to be kept in perspective.

• Posted: 01/11/2011
• Los Angeles Times: Identifying the Violent Mentally Ill is a Challenge, Experts Say
• It's tricky business to identify whether a person who is mentally ill might become violent.

• Posted: 12/31/2010
• The Baltimore Sun: Upping Your New Year's Resolution Odds
• Though many resolutions come to grief fairly quickly, many others live to see another day ... or month ... or year.

• Posted: 12/17/2010
• The Lancet: Tackling Loneliness in the Holidays
• It's the most wonderful time of the year, according to Andy Williams. Christmas, that is. But were you to tune into a radio station during any December since 1974, then there is every chance that Mud would give you a very different impression of the holid

• Posted: 12/15/2010
• Health.com: 10 Careers With High Rates of Depression
• Some jobs are more depression prone than others.

• Posted: 12/02/2010
• Medical News Today: Depression Returns in About Half of Treated Teens
• Most depressed teens who receive treatment appear to recover, but the condition recurs in almost half of adolescent patients and even more often among females.

• Posted: 11/23/2010
• New York Times: Behind the Facade, Post-Traumatic Stress
• A soldier returns from war unable to get the images of battle out of his head. An earthquake survivor rides out long, anxiety-filled nights. A young woman in a pretty floral dress walks her dog along the streets of Manhattan.

• Posted: 11/18/2010
• HealthDay: Mental Illness Hit 1 in 5 U.S. Adults in Past Year
• A new survey finds that 20 percent of U.S. adults -- over 45 million people -- experienced mental illness in the past year.

• Posted: 11/17/2010
• Health Behavior News Service: Childhood Sexual, Physical Abuse Linked to Drinking Problems in Women
• Women who suffered sexual or physical abuse as children are more likely to abuse alcohol than are others.

• Posted: 11/08/2010
• USA Today: Kids of Deployed Military Have More Behavioral Problems
• A new study suggests nine years of war is taking a toll on U.S. children.

• Posted: 11/02/2010
• KOAA: Soldiers Battle Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Through art
• After witnessing the horrors of war, many of our soldiers are afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

• Posted: 10/28/2010
• USA Today: Doctors eye Better Ways to Share e-Health Records
• An e-chart stored in one doctor's computer too often can't be read by another's across town.

• Posted: 10/25/2010
• Los Angeles Times: Mentally ill Prisoners get a Second Chance
• Milton Conley's mental illness has cost him — and society — more than he cares to tally.

• Posted: 10/20/2010
• Health Behaviors News Service: Telehealth Care Can Keep People With Severe Asthma out of the Hospital
• Health care delivered via telephone or Internet could keep those with severe asthma out of the hospital.

• Posted: 10/18/2010
• Mail and Guardian: Genes Aren't to Blame for Mental Problems
• When the map of the human genome was presented to the world in 2001, psychiatrists had high hopes.

• Posted: 10/04/2010
• USA Today: Depression Hits 9 Percent of Adults, Worst in South
• An estimated 9 percent of adult Americans currently meet the criteria for clinical depression, federal officials reported Thursday.

• Posted: 09/27/2010
• PsychCentral: Stigma for Mental Illness High, Possibly Worsening
• Despite widespread efforts to educate the public of the neurobiological basis for mental illness, researchers have found no improvement in discrimination toward people suffering with serious mental health or substance abuse problems.

• Posted: 09/16/2010
• State Honors Unique Partnership Serving Colorado Springs’ Refugee Population
• The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) on Thursday recognized a unique and successful partnership that provides health and mental health care screenings and treatment for refugees relocating to the Colorado Springs area.

• Posted: 09/15/2010
• USA Today: NASA Delivers Coping Tips for Miners Trapped in Chile
• NASA experts and space travel psychiatrists are trying to help the 33 trapped Chilean miners who are waiting two to four months to be rescued.

• Posted: 09/13/2010
• Gazette: Colorado, El Paso County Suicide Rates on the Rise
• Colorado, which typically has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, had a record 940 deaths by suicide last year.

• Posted: 09/03/2010
• Mrs. Colorado Spreads Word on Military Creative Expression Program
• When Mrs. Colorado Shalon Polson started packing for her trip to Tucson, Ariz., this week for the Mrs. America Pageant she needed to leave room for more than just her Colorado sash.

• Posted: 09/01/2010
• Fox News: Study Links Lack of Sleep to Long-Term Mental Illness
• Sleeping fewer hours than recommended puts young adults at increased risk that any mental health problems they already have will become persistent.

• Posted: 08/30/2010
• HealthDay: Some Fake ADHD to Get Meds, Special Treatment
• Study shows that kids, adults can fool doctors on certain tests.

• Posted: 08/27/2010
• McClatchy Newspapers: Gulf Coast Grapples With Post-Katrina Mental Health Issues
• The last five years have been a mental health roller coaster for many among the Mississippi Gulf Coast's post-Katrina population.

• Posted: 08/26/2010
• KOAA: How old is too old to Drive?
• Marguerite Groves, 100, is living proof that there's no right answer to the question of how old is too old to drive.

• Posted: 08/23/2010
• The Independent: Can Loneliness Really Damage Your Health?
• There is a difference between being alone and feeling lonely.

• Posted: 08/18/2010
• Colorado Springs Gazette: Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Rebranded as AspenPointe
• Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group has been renamed AspenPointe Inc. as part of a major rebranding campaign to unify the 12 agencies that operate under it and give the public a better understanding of the varied services it offers.

• Posted: 08/11/2010
• The Hill: Mental Health Advocates Press for Coverage in BP Relief Fund
• The nation's largest mental health organization is pressing claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg to cover mental health needs through the $20 billion BP relief fund.

• Posted: 07/29/2010
• New York Times: Old Age in America, by the Numbers
• The population of older Americans is growing faster than ever and living longer than ever, but not as long as in much of Europe and elsewhere in the developed world, according to “Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being,” a report compiled by 1

• Posted: 07/28/2010
• USA Today: 'Villages' let elderly grow old at home
• The explosive growth of the USA's older population is fueling a grass-roots "village" movement in neighborhoods across the country to help people age in their own homes.

• Posted: 07/20/2010
• Science Daily: Soldiers With Brain Injuries at Higher Risk of Epilepsy Decades Later, Study Finds
• Soldiers who receive traumatic brain injuries during war may be at a higher risk of epilepsy even decades after the brain injury occurred.

• Posted: 06/28/2010
• Medical News Today: Link Between Vitamin D and Mental Agility in Elders
• Agricultural Research Service-funded scientists have contributed to a limited but growing body of evidence of a link between vitamin D and cognitive function

• Posted: 06/16/2010
• Gazette: Peak Vista celebrates new medical center, announces UCCS center
• Peak Vista Community Health Centers celebrates the opening of a new senior medical center on South Wahsatch Avenue.

• Posted: 06/10/2010
• Fit to Care: Grandmother Overcame Stereotypes, Odds to get Custody of Children
• Barbara Allen, 52, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 70s. Like many who suffer from a mental illness, she did not want to be a “slave” to medication, so she spent much of the next 20 years trying to “manage” her symptoms and triggers.

• Posted: 05/27/2010
• Fox 5: Is Being Lonely Different than Being a Loner?
• British researchers say that loneliness, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

• Posted: 04/23/2010
• The New York Times: One Man's Trash...
• Hoarding has been linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder and its variants. People justify hoarding as curating and recycling, deeming odd objects beautiful and useful. Sometimes they act as if history were at stake.

• Posted: 04/09/2010
• Gazette: Can Colorado Springs Become a Nirvana for Seniors?
• What would it take to make Colorado Springs a “remarkable” place to age?

• Posted: 04/06/2010
• Lifelong Volunteer Spearheading Innovations in Aging
• For Barbara Yalich, helping others is not something you simply do, it is a way of life. And for her, it has a lot to do with growing up in Colorado Springs.

• Posted: 04/05/2010
• Gazette: Senior Art Class Will Kick Off in May
• Long before last week’s Innovations in Aging summit convened on what would make Colorado Springs an ideal place to grow old, the group founders decided one thing was certain: Arts and culture must be part of their plans.

• Posted: 04/01/2010
• New York Times: Cycling Provides a Break for Some With Parkinson’s
• Bicycling offers patients an opportunity to be symptom-free while they are riding, to look and feel normal, and to get some real cardiovascular exercise even when their disease is so far advanced that they cannot walk.

• Posted: 03/25/2010
• GED Program Celebrates 1,000th Graduate
• Aspen Diversified Industries’ Education and GED Program celebrated a major milestone with its students and staff on Friday, March 19: 1,000 graduates.

• Posted: 03/22/2010
• Denver Post: House Clears Historic Health Care Expansion
• The House on Sunday approved sweeping legislation to guarantee most Americans access to medical care for the first time in history.

• Posted: 03/12/2010
• On the Cusp of the ‘Senior Tsunami’
• It has been referred to as the “Senior Tsunami,” the influx of Baby Boomers about to retire, and local advocates and older adults are mobilizing to prepare for the aging needs of nearly 25 percent United States’ population.

• Posted: 03/12/2010
• Western News: Identifying Suicide Risk in Seniors
• As Baby Boomers enter their senior years, there is growing concern the golden years will be marred by an increased risk for suicide.

• Posted: 03/01/2010
• Bolohealth.com: Oat Extracts can Improve Mental Health of Older Adults
• Having oat extracts can improve and boost brain power even at old age, says a new study by researchers at University of South Australia (USA).

• Posted: 02/04/2010
• Chicago Tribune: Retirees Have Incentives to Address Mental Health Issues
• This year, there are new incentives for addressing mental health under a law that ensures people with private group health insurance get equal coverage.

• Posted: 01/14/2010
• GED Kick-starts Dream for 57-year-old Korean-American
• Quitting is not an option for Im Trina.

• Posted: 12/23/2009
• Boston Globe: High Emotional, Physical Costs for Seniors Who Give Up Driving, Surrendering Independence
• When elders give up driving, a cascade of physical, emotional, and practical concerns often follow.

• Posted: 10/23/2009
• WebMD: Older People Get Brain Boost From Internet
• A study shows older adults who learn to use the Internet to search for information experience a surge of activity in key decision-making and reasoning centers of the brain.

• Posted: 09/23/2009
• KXRM: Happiness: State of Mind or Destination?
• The Heroes of Mental Health Luncheon recognizes those in our community who champion the many community issues Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group works to resolve: mental illness, substance abuse, joblessness, homelessness, veterans' issues, lack of educat

• Posted: 06/24/2009
• HealthDay: Stay Upbeat, Active to Keep the Mind Young
• To stave off the mental decline associated with old age, engage in intellectually challenging activities, maintain a positive outlook and keep up your social life. Those are the findings of what researchers say is the largest-ever review of studies on

• Posted: 06/17/2009
• WebMD: Tips for Summer Depression
• School’s out. It’s hot. And you’re not having any fun.

• Posted: 05/15/2009
• Faith Community Comes Together to Help Military Families
• Faith leaders from the various denominations throughout El Paso County converged on El Pomar’s Penrose House on Thursday, May 14, to learn how they can help military families fighting personal battles with combat stress disorders.

• Posted: 04/10/2009
• Talk to Your Kids About "Sexting"
• Dr. Mary Zesiewicz, a psychiatrist who practices with the Pikes Peak Mental Health Center, suggested that process should begin when parents purchase new gadgets for their children.