As an alliance of organizations and community leaders, the Collaborative’s collective purpose is to design, organize, resource, and coordinate the implementation and maintenance of a unified strategy using the Colorado-National Collaborative (CNC) framework. The goal is to reduce suicide deaths in El Paso County by 20 percent by the year 2024.
Through this network of community relationships that link each of the CNC’s Pillars of Actions, the Collaborative orchestrates a coordinated set of actions to identify methods, practices, and procedures that support and strengthen the approach of each of the participating organizations.
The Collaborative operates largely beyond the scope of any one particular board in a coordinated governance process that helps deploy resources from the various stakeholder groups to accomplish its prime objective: To cultivate caring communities that are resilient, connected, and capable of supporting every person, regardless of the struggles they face
