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Child Care Facility Licensing Rules – Volume 7

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Last Updated: Nov 10, 2021

This website has information on current regulations for child care facility licensing.

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Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

Family First – The Child Welfare Training System

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Last Updated: Mar 1, 2023

}Public facing Family First trainings and resources available on the Child Welfare Training System webpage

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Audience: General Public

CMS Guidance on PRTFs

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities Survey protocols and Interpretive Guidelines are established to provide guidance to personnel conducting surveys. They serve to clarify and/or explain the intent of the regulations and all surveyors are required to use them in assessing compliance with Federal requirements.

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Issue: Provider Services

Audience: Service Providers

Federal Description of an IMD

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This State Medicaid Manual (Publication #45) manual makes available to all State Medicaid agencies informational and procedural material needed by the States to administer the Medicaid program.

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Issue: Provider Services

Audience: Service Providers

FamilyFirstAct.org

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This website provides access to a comprehensive set of resources related to Family First. It has information on the law, as well as a searchable database of resources on a wide range of relevant topics.

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Colorado Family First Implementation Team

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This group is responsible for developing, deploying and monitoring a plan to implement Colorado's Family First Implementation Road Map

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Independent Assessment

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Delivery of Child Welfare Services Task Force

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

The task force, composed of county and state staff, was created to analyze laws and rules related to the Delivery of Child Welfare Services to ensure the alignment with Family First.

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Child and Youth Mental Health Treatment Act (CYMHTA) Program

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This web link provides information on the Children and Youth Mental Health Treatment Act (CYMHTA) (C.R.S. 27-67-101, et. seq.), also called House Bill 18-1094, which allows for families to access mental health treatment services for their child or youth. CYMHTA is an alternative to child welfare involvement when a dependency…

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

OBH Momentum Program

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

The Rocky Mountain Human Services (RMHS) Momentum Program supports the transition of children and adults from inpatient mental health institutes, hospitals, home and other care settings to community living.

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Colorado Vendor Self Service (VSS) system

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

The ColoradoVSS website allows vendors to manage their account, review and respond to solicitations. Most State agencies and many Institutions of Higher Education post solicitations for goods, services, and construction notices on the ColoradoVSS website.

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services, Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

SB21-137: Behavioral Health Recovery Act

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This is a summary of the 2021 bill concerning the "Behavioral Health Recovery Act of 2021".

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Professional foster care pilot program

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Last Updated: Dec 14, 2023

The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is excited to announce a new contract for therapeutic foster care and a professional foster care pilot program with Superior Caregivers.

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Issue: Performance Management & Outcomes

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Colorado Child Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)

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Last Updated: Dec 14, 2023

Colorado Child Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)

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Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

U.S. Department of State – Intercountry Adoption Information

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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2024

Information published by the U.S. Department of State covering many different aspects of intercountry adoption, including federal legislation, country information, and overall process.

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International, Intercountry Adoption

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

Families Rising

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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2024

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development

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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2024

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

Children’s Hospital Colorado – International Adoption Clinic

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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2024

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

IRS Adoption Tax Credit

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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2024

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

CDHS Adoption Information website

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Last Updated: Mar 20, 2024

The Colorado Department of Human Services’ goal is to keep children and youth with their birth families. However, there are certain situations in which that is not possible or in the best interest of the child or youth. In those situations, we seek adoptive families for children and youth in…

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) website

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Last Updated: Mar 20, 2024

The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) is a law that has been enacted by all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This law establishes orderly procedures for the interstate placement of children and fixes responsibilities for those involved in placing the child.

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

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

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Last Updated: Mar 28, 2024

resources on child trauma by The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

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Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility, Child Placing Agency — Foster Care, Performance Management & Outcomes

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Building Bridges Initiative

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Last Updated: Mar 28, 2024

Building Bridges Initiative provides tools to support your work with the Building Bridges five core values and principles to implement best practices

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Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility, Child Placing Agency — Foster Care, Performance Management & Outcomes

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Colorado Cross-Systems Training Institute

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Last Updated: Mar 28, 2024

The Colorado Behavioral Health Administration and the Cross-Systems Training Institute are committed to protecting the health and safety of all Coloradans. We have transitioned all of our trainings to a virtual platform, and at this time for the foreseeable future all live trainings are being offered virtually. We also encourage…

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Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility, Child Placing Agency — Foster Care, Child Placing Agency — Adoption, Day Treatment, Specialized Group Facility, Secure Residential Treatment Center, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, Performance Management & Outcomes

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity (IAAME)

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Last Updated: Apr 15, 2024

IAAME is designated as an accrediting entity to accredit or approve adoption service providers to provide intercountry adoption services.

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Issue: Child Placing Agency — Adoption, Intercountry Adoption

Center for Excellence In Adoption Services (CEAS)

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Last Updated: Apr 15, 2024

The Center for Excellence in Adoption Services is a nonprofit organization working with the adoption community to achieve better outcomes for children, adults, families, and communities involved in adoption.

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Issue: Child Placing Agency — Adoption, Private Domestic Adoption

Audience: Service Providers, General Public

Health Passport

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Last Updated: Apr 25, 2024

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Issue: Residential Child Care Facility, Child Placing Agency — Foster Care

Audience: Service Providers

OBH Momentum Program website

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Last Updated: Jul 22, 2024

For Momentum Program website

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Issue: Funding & Reimbursement

Audience: County Directors, General Public

OCR – Foster Youth Bill of Rights

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Last Updated: May 5, 2025

Colorado Office of The Child's Representative - Foster Youth Bill of Rights

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Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Therapeutic Foster Care, Treatment Foster Care, Residential Child Care Facility, Child Placing Agency — Adoption, Specialized Group Facility, Adoption — Private & International, Contracts Administration, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, Performance Management & Outcomes, — — Qualified Residential Treatment Program, — — Child Placing Agency — Foster Care

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers, General Public

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