In 2014, voters in Denver, Colo., approved a half-cent sales tax to fund mental health and substance misuse programs.
Since then, the Caring for Denver Foundation has awarded more than $109 million in grants to 218 community-based organizations dealing with mental health and substance misuse, the Denver Post reports.
"In just the past year, more than 311,000 Denverites learned about or used services as a result of our grantees work," Lorez Meinhold, executive director of the foundation, says in a press release.
"That number is four times the capacity of Empower Field at Mile High.
In addition, our grantees reported for those served, a 71% reduction in substance misuse, a 76% improvement in mental health, and 94% did not enter or return to incarceration and instead were connected to mental health and substance misuse care."
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