Turning Point Expands Adolescent IOP to Weld, Morgan, and Logan Counties

Turning Point is excited to announce that we are expanding our Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program to Weld, Morgan, and Logan Counties, thanks to a partnership with Signal Connecting Colorado Behavioral Health fund. 

Turning Point's first Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) in Larimer County, launched in early 2023, has been a resounding success. It has met a growing demand, serving over 80 youth and even seeing waitlists, a testament to its effectiveness. Now, thanks to a funding partnership and the support of each County's Department of Human Services, we are expanding to Weld, Morgan, and Logan Counties.  Through a unique hybrid program design and a team of traveling clinicians, the program is creatively filling much-needed service gaps in these rural counties. All three counties will rotate through a 3-day schedule of in-person and virtual days. This program is 6 hours a week, providing both substance use disorder and mental health treatment services to adolescents up to age 18. Group, individual, and family therapy services are included, and the program is available to any youth needing an IOP level of care. The program accepts many major insurances, including Medicaid, and offers a Sliding Fee Scale for the underinsured or uninsured. 

This program is funded thanks to Signal's Building Substance Use Disorder Service Capacity in Rural and Frontier Communities Grant, which will fund the program through June 2026. This fund came to be in 2019, when the 2019 Colorado General Assembly House Bill 19-1287 was passed, creating a grant program, administered through the Managed Service Organizations (MSO), which appropriated funds to the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) to increase substance use disorder capacity and services in rural and frontier communities. 

This funding provides the much-needed support for Turning Point to expand IOP services to rural parts of Northern Colorado, and we are hopeful the program will be as successful as the one in Larimer, reaching a place of sustainability by the end of the grant period. Turning Point has an outpatient facility in Greeley, at 913 11th Ave, and this funding is helping to grow services already established in Weld county. 

"We are incredibly grateful for the funding support from Signal, and excited to partner with Weld, Morgan, and Logan Counties in assuring rural youth have access to IOP level of care," shares Wendy Lee, Executive Director of Turning Point. "The first round of groups began mid September, 2024, and we are currently accepting referrals."

If you know of any youth in Weld, Morgan, or Logan Counties who would benefit from our Intensive Outpatient Program for substance use and mental health treatment needs, please know that our services are readily available. Referrals can be made directly through our website, ensuring a straightforward and accessible process for those in need.

Click here for more information on the IOP program.

For more information about Signal, visit: https://signalbhn.org