An information exchange designed to help those at risk and promote their well-being has been selected as a semifinalist in a national health innovation challenge. The Quality Health Network based in Grand Junction announced its Community Resource Network is among five semifinalists in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Social Determinants of Health Innovation Challenge. “We […]
Colorado will join a growing number of states participating in a program to help people with disabilities obtain employment, the state labor and employment department announced. The Employment First initiative promotes competitive, integrated employment as the first choice for people regardless of the levels of their disabilities. “Our Division of Vocational Rehabilitation will be a […]
American women experienced significantly lower levels of sexual harassment in the workplace from 2016 to 2018, but increasing levels of gender harassment, according to the results of new studies at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The results, published in the PLOS One journal, also found the effects of […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The June jobless rate jumped again in Mesa County — a seasonal increase that reflects in part the high school and college graduates who’ve joined the labor force, but haven’t yet landed jobs. But even as the monthly unemployment rate increased, so did the overall labor force in topping 78,000 […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Diane Schwenke and Robin Brown welcome the 27 jobs coming to the Grand Valley as part of a reorganization of the Bureau of Land Management. What’s even more important in terms of the long-term implications, Schwenke and Brown said, is what’s coming with them, and that’s the headquarters of the […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times While C.J. Rhyne follows the usual metrics in tracking how the Grand Valley economy performs, he pays more attention to what he hears from the business owners with which he talks. “I want to get it straight from them.” As director of business retention and expansion at the Grand Junction […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Caren Crandall estimates she’s relocated her Pilates studio a dozen times over the course of her more than 20-year career as an instructor, but considers her latest moving experience the best one of all. “By way far,” Crandall said. For one thing, the newly constructed studio offers nearly double the […]
A series of three free webinars planned for Grand Junction will offer information about the process to obtain a patent. The Patent and Trademark Resource Center at Mesa County Libraries and Rocky Mountain regional office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have scheduled the webinars for 10 a.m. to noon July 19 and Aug. […]
A former Mesa County commissioner and state legislator has received recognition for his contributions to the Colorado State University Extension. Steve Acquafresca was presented with the inaugural Extension Distinguished Service Award during a ceremony on the CSU campus in Fort Collins. C.J. Mucklow, western regional director for the CSU Extension, nominated Acquafresca for the award. […]
The executive director of a Grand Junction-based organization that helps youth has been selected to serve on a new state task force to evaluate the behavioral health system in Colorado. Jill Derrieux, executive director of Mesa County Partners, is among 25 members of the Behavioral Health Task Force. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado […]