As Executive Director of Colorado Health Partnerships, LLC, Arnold is responsible for coordinating the activities of the partnership been the 8 mental health center providers, and ValueOptons the management services provider and  the Department of Health Care Policy and Finance the contracting agency for the mental health capitation contract.  His organization has a budget of $69 million an dcovers 43 counties, mostly in rural Colorado.

Arnold previously served as Executive Director SyCare, L.L.C. from 1995 to 2004, managing a budget of $18 Million and providing services in 19 Counties in Southeastern Colorado.  He also served as Executive Director of the San Luis Valley Mental Health Center and as Para-Legal Investigator for the Public Defender, working in the Colorado State Penitentiary

Arnold received his MSW in Social Work Administration from University of Michigan, and graduated Cum Laude from Adams State College with a BA in Social Welfare. 

He serves as Chairman of the Colorado Conservation Voters Action Fund and is also active in the Alamosa Community Development Corporation, Colorado Children's Campaign and the Colorado Commission for High School Improvement. 

His past experience and involvement includes:

• Colorado Wildlife Commission, Southwest Region Representative
• Great Outdoors Colorado Board Member
• Caring for Colorado Foundation
• Colorado Health Institute
• San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center
• Democratic Central Committee, Alamosa County
• San Luis Valley Representative, Colorado Hispanic Agenda Project
• Governor's Advisory Council on Mental Health
• Board President, Community Radio Station, KRZA
• Past President Colorado Mental Health Centers and Clinics Association
• San Luis Valley Hispanic League
• Colorado Rural Health Center
• Governor's Commission on health care reform (Colorado Care)