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OM-CW-2025-0009 – Updated County Checklist & QRTP Lifetime Limit Waiver Request Form

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Last Updated: Mar 25, 2025

This memorandum from the Office of Children, Youth, and Families provides counties with an updated Qualified Residential Treatment Provider (QRTP) Lifetime Limit Waiver Request Form and a checklist incorporating components from the former Cover Letter/Checklist tool.

Resource Type: Memo

Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Relinquishment Procedures Information Memo

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Last Updated: Jan 4, 2024

The purpose of this memorandum from the Division of Child Welfare (DCW) is to provide information to counties and vested partners regarding Relinquishment Counseling in Colorado.

Resource Type: Memo

Issue: Adoption — Private & International, Relinquishment Counseling

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Provider Rates

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Last Updated: Jun 21, 2023

Rates by placement type for July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024

Resource Type: Memo

Issue: Child Placement Agency — Foster Care, Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Residential Child Care Facility, Specialized Group Facility

Audience: Service Providers

Family First Memo List

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Last Updated: Apr 1, 2022

This spreadsheet lists all of the memos that have been released by the state that are relevant to Family First.

Resource Type: Memo

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

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

DCW Operation Memo Long-term Placement Process

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Last Updated: Dec 22, 2021

This memo clarifies the length of stay waiver process for long-term out-of-home placement in a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP)

Resource Type: Memo

Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Independent Assessment Process for Volume VII

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Last Updated: Sep 1, 2021

This operation memo informs county departments of the current practice guidance recommended and to be in effect as of October 1, 2021 until Volume VII rules are promulgated regarding county responsibilities when placing a child/youth in a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP)

Resource Type: Memo

Issue: Independent Assessment, Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: County Directors

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: Independent Assessment, Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, General Public, Service Providers

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

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