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Adoptive Parent Disclosures

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Last Updated: Dec 8, 2010

List of requirements for the disclosure a CPA must provide in writing to adoptive parent applicants

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Child Placing Agency — Adoption

Audience: Service Providers

Birth Parent Disclosures

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Last Updated: Dec 8, 2010

List of requirements for the disclosure a CPA must provide in writing to birth parents

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Child Placing Agency — Adoption

Audience: Service Providers

Host Family Home Family Record checklist

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Last Updated: May 15, 2014

Checklist used by Licensing to review Host Family Home Family files

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Child Placing Agency — Foster Care

Audience: Service Providers

Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

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Last Updated: Oct 1, 2014

This manual introduces the concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector. The manual provides a definition of trauma and a trauma-informed approach, and offers 6 key principles and 10 implementation domains.

Resource Type: Handbook

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

CPA Foster Homes Supplemental Worksheet

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Last Updated: Aug 1, 2016

A tool for CPAs to track details of the requirements for foster home original certification and recertification

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Child Placing Agency — Foster Care

Audience: Service Providers

Title IV-E and IV-B Plans

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Last Updated: Jul 9, 2018

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction for: 1) changes to the title IV-E plan requirements as a result of the Family First Prevention Services Act that are effective as of January 1, 2018 and later; and 2) delayed effective dates for title IV-B/E plan requirements.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Prevention Services Requirements

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Last Updated: Nov 30, 2018

This Program Instruction (PI) provides instructions to state title IV-E agencies on the title IV-E prevention program requirements.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Colorado’s Family First Implementation Road Map

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Last Updated: Dec 31, 2018

This Family First Prevention Services Act Road Map is the result of the foresight and commitment of many individuals who work to serve the children, youth, and families of Colorado (CO). Leaders at all levels representing state, county, and stakeholder perspectives dedicated countless hours to this effort with the hopes…

Resource Type: Report

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Independent Assessment

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Annie E Casey Family First Communication Toolkit

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Last Updated: Feb 4, 2019

A downloadable toolkit to help child welfare leaders, advocates, private providers and others talk about Family First and its intended outcomes.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Information Memo Foster Home Standards (Federal)

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Last Updated: Feb 4, 2019

This Information Memorandum (IM) issues National Model Foster Family Home Licensing Standards.

Resource Type: Memo

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Secure Residential Treatment Center Staff Record checklist

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Last Updated: Jun 1, 2019

Checklist used by Licensing to review Secure Residential Treatment Center Staff files

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Secure Residential Treatment Center

Audience: Service Providers

Secure Residential Treatment Center Youth Record checklist

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Last Updated: Jun 1, 2019

Checklist used by Licensing to review Secure Residential Treatment Center Youth files

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Secure Residential Treatment Center

Audience: Service Providers

Transitional Payments for Prevention Services

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Last Updated: Jul 18, 2019

This Program Instruction (PI) instructs states on the procedures for transitional payments for title IV-E prevention services and programs.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Information Memo Family Engagement (Federal)

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Last Updated: Aug 1, 2019

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to demonstrate that family and youth voice are critical to a well-functioning child welfare system and to strongly encourage all public child welfare agencies, dependency courts, and Court Improvement Programs to work together to ensure that family and youth voice are central…

Resource Type: Memo

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Independent Assessment

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Residential Child Care Facility Core Indicator for Inspection

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Last Updated: Sep 1, 2019

Full checklist of rules a Residential Child Care Facility must be in compliance with prior to a new license being issued

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility

Audience: Service Providers

Quality Standards for 24-Hour Child Care Core Indicator for Inspection

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Last Updated: Sep 1, 2019

Full checklist of the rules at 7.714, Quality Standards for 24-Hour Child Care, which all facilities this rule set applies to must be in compliance with prior to a new license being issued. 7.714 applies to specialized group facilities, residential child care facilities, shelter residential child care facilities, and psychiatric…

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility, Child Placing Agency — Foster Care, Child Placing Agency — Adoption, Day Treatment, Specialized Group Facility

Audience: Service Providers

Residential Child Care Facility with Psychiatric Residential Treatment Core Indicator for Inspection

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Last Updated: Sep 1, 2019

Full checklist of rules a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility must be in compliance with prior to a new license being issued

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Residential Child Care Facility

Audience: Service Providers

CMS FAQ

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Last Updated: Sep 20, 2019

This set of FAQs clarifies existing CMS policy regarding Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMDs) and its potential for impact on Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTPs) defined in title IV-E of the Social Security Act. CMS explains how states can provide Medicaid services to Medicaid-eligible children residing in these facilities.

Resource Type: Other

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

BEING UPDATED Colorado Qualified Residential Treatment Program Trauma-Informed Care Model

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Last Updated: Oct 1, 2019

This form is intended for service provider agencies - they must submit a description of their Trauma-Informed Care Model to the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) upon application for a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) license and when applying for a mental health designation…

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

BEING UPDATED Colorado Qualified Residential Treatment Program Trauma-Informed Care Model: Agency Self-Assessment

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Last Updated: Oct 1, 2019

The Agency Self-Assessment tool is intended to help agencies that are making the transition to a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) and those that have become a QRTP. Developing and maintaining a QRTP Trauma-Informed Model requires the transformation of processes, people and systems throughout the organization.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

Family First Implementation Team – 2019

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Last Updated: Dec 20, 2019

This folder contains meeting agendas, minutes and other related documents from 2019 Implementation Team meetings.

Resource Type: Meeting Notes, Agendas, Minutes

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Day Treatment Center Core Indicator for Inspection

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Last Updated: Feb 1, 2020

Full checklist of rules a Day Treatment Center must be in compliance with prior to a new license being issued

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Day Treatment

Audience: Service Providers

Family First Implementation Team – Racial Equity Documents

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Last Updated: Jun 4, 2020

This folder contains documents that focus on ways that Family First can be utilized to advance racial equity.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First

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Last Updated: Jun 6, 2020

This tool helps child welfare professionals, both within and outside the legal community, understand, value, and address legal implications of the Act to further the legislation’s goal of ensuring children live in families.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Family First Implementation Team – 2020

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Last Updated: Jun 12, 2020

This folder contains meeting agendas, minutes and other related documents from 2020 Implementation Team meetings.

Resource Type: Meeting Notes, Agendas, Minutes

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Qualified Residential Treatment Program Quarterly Review

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Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020

This flow chart highlights when (in the process of gaining QRTP designation) quarterly reviews will take place.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

Residential Child Care Facility Quarterly Review

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Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020

This flow chart highlights when (in the process of gaining QRTP designation) residential child care reviews will take place.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

Office of Behavioral Health Trauma-Informed Care Model Review

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Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020

This flowchart shows the key steps in the OBH Trauma Informed Care Model Review process.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

Specialized Group Facility (SGF) to Residential Child Care Facility (RCCF) Process

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Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020

This document provides a detailed flow chart that demonstrates the process for moving from Specialized Group Facility (SGF) to Residential Child Care Facility (RCCF)

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility

Audience: Service Providers

Residential Child Care Facility (RCCF) to Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) Designation

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Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020

This document provides a detailed flow chart that shows the process for adding QRTP Designation to an RCCF license

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility

Audience: Service Providers

CMS Letter on STRTP-IMD Exclusion

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Last Updated: Jul 3, 2020

This letter concerns California's implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act1 (FFPSA) requirements for Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTPs).

Resource Type: Other

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

CMS Response to California

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Last Updated: Jul 30, 2020

This letter from the Department of Health and Human Services provides clarification about the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) requirements for Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTPs), Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program facilities (STRTPs) in California and their intersection with the Medicaid Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion.

Resource Type: Other

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

The Prevention Services Clearinghouse Handbook of Standards and Procedures

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Last Updated: Aug 26, 2020

This handbook provides a detailed description of the standards used to identify and review programs and services for the Prevention Services Clearinghouse. It also provides a detailed description of the procedures followed by the staff of the Prevention Services Clearinghouse (which is part of the Administration for Children and Families).

Resource Type: Handbook

Issue: Prevention Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Family First 101 Town Hall

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Last Updated: Oct 1, 2020

This town hall recording introduces the fundamental components of Family First.

Resource Type: Video

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Residential Child Care Facility Shelter Care Youth Record checklist

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Last Updated: Oct 1, 2020

Checklist used by Licensing to review RCCF Shelter Care Youth files

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Residential Child Care Facility

Audience: Service Providers

CANS Town Hall

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Last Updated: Oct 22, 2020

This town hall recording focuses on the role of CANS assessments in Family First.

Resource Type: Video

Issue: Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018: A Guide for the Legal Community

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Last Updated: Dec 1, 2020

In 2019, the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law surveyed over 500 legal professionals about what they needed to better understand and implement the Family First Act. Most respondents (84%) said they would like an overview of the Act and clearer information about how it affects legal…

Resource Type: Handbook

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Independent Assessment

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Independent Assessment QRTP Data Entry Tipsheet

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Last Updated: Jan 15, 2021

As the Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First) comes into effect in Colorado, child welfare staff need to understand and have the tools to accurately enter child and family data in Trails. This tipsheet provides guidance on data entry.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Family First Training Request Form

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Last Updated: Jan 15, 2021

This is a Google form intended to gather input on specific Family First training needs/interests.

Resource Type: Form

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Placement Continuum Learning Collaborative: Traditional Foster Care

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Last Updated: Jan 24, 2021

This 1 hour and 12 minute video focuses on traditional foster care and the placement continuum.

Resource Type: Video

Issue: Child Placing Agency — Foster Care

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

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