Health & Wellness
We want to empower you and help you find the right support for your physical and mental health care. We understand that finding the right resources can be frustrating and challenging. Our Health Navigators can help break down barriers and guide you to the care that you need, whether it is health insurance, mental health support or a peer support program.
Mental Health Navigation
Use the Self-Service Mental Health Navigator below to get connected with the best support option for your current circumstances. If you’d like to make an appointment with a Mental Health Navigator, call 970-262-3888.
FIRC’s Mental Health Navigators can help you access mental health support and they understand the challenges of a complicated system.
We do not provide therapy but can help by:
- Finding a therapist
- Assisting with the cost of therapy and prescriptions
- Locating inpatient treatment
- Accessing drug or alcohol treatment
- Finding community resources and support groups
- Facilitating communication between mental health providers
- Connections to support
Self-Service Mental Health & Wellness Navigator
Mental Health Referral Form
Additional Mental Health Resource: Building Hope Summit County
Building Hope Summit County is a community-wide initiative designed to create a more coordinated, effective and responsive mental health system that promotes emotional health, reduces stigma and improves access to care and support for everyone in Summit County. They also offer a variety of community events to support mental health. Visit their website to learn more.
Self-Service Health Navigator
Health Insurance Enrollment
FIRC’s health navigators will help you apply for and choose health insurance coverage that best fits your budget and your needs. To schedule an appointment call: 970-262-3888 or use the form below.
Ways we can help:
- Health insurance enrollment for the marketplace (Connect for Health Colorado), CHP+ and Medicaid
- Education on how to use your insurance coverage
- Medical bill assistance
- Assistance with health insurance issues
Open enrollment special events!
Open enrollment starts November 1. Enroll by December 15 for plans that start January 1, 2022. If you enroll between December 16 – January 15, your plan starts on February 1, 2022.
Our health navigators are standing by during these special, free events to help you with your health insurance needs. Don’t miss out during open enrollment. Health insurance doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg!
Dial-in Days! Call 970-262-3888 and get connected to a health navigator who will help answer your questions:
Dial-In Days Scheduled on Mondays:
- November 1, 12 – 4 PM
- November 8, 12 – 4 PM
- November 15, 12 – 4 PM
- November 22, 12 – 4 PM
- November 29, 12 – 4 PM
- December 6, 12 – 4 PM
- December 13, 12 – 4 PM
- January 3, 12 – 4 PM
- January 10, 12 – 4 PM
Walk-in Days! If you’d like to sit down with a health navigator instead, come visit us at our Silverthorne location (251 W. 4th Street) during our Walk-in Days events.
Walk-in Days Scheduled on Thursdays:
- November 4, 9 AM – 1 PM
- November 11, 9 AM – 1 PM
- November 18, 9 AM – 1 PM
- November 25 – CLOSED
- December 2, 9 AM – 1 PM
- December 9, 9 AM – 1 PM
- December 16, 9 AM – 1 PM
- January 6, 9 AM – 1 PM
- January 13, 9 AM – 1 PM
Make An Appointment With a Health Navigator
Health Navigation Referral Form
ALMA Peer Support for Women
What is stronger than a woman? A woman united with other women. If you are a Latina woman in Summit County, you are invited to be a part of ALMA (Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma).
ALMA provides an alternative for support and conversation. The program hosts monthly group sessions and then pairs women with a peer mentor, a companera, who has faced similar challenges and completed the program. You will learn strategies to relieve stress, take care of yourself, and how to achieve your goals in a confidential environment.
The free ALMA program can give you the encouragement and empowerment to help you make changes. The program is in Spanish and currently offered virtually via Zoom. Please watch the video for more information.
If you are interested in enrolling, contact FIRC at 970-262-3888, email: pattyg@summitfirc.org or fill out the ALMA form below.
