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General Process for Becoming a Licensed Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Clinic: Provider Resource Guide

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Last Updated: Jun 15, 2026

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Issue: ABA Clinic

Audience: Service Providers

Preparation for a Licensing Visit – ABA Clinic Licensure

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Last Updated: Jun 15, 2026

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Issue: ABA Clinic

Audience: Service Providers

Background Check Requirements and Processes: Provider Resource Guide

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Last Updated: Jun 15, 2026

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Issue: ABA Clinic

Audience: Service Providers

ABA Clinic Fire, Health, and Zoning: Provider Resource Guide

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Last Updated: Jun 15, 2026

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Issue: ABA Clinic

Audience: Service Providers

RCCF Wilderness Youth Records Checklist

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Last Updated: May 18, 2026

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Issue: Residential Child Care Facility

Audience: Service Providers

CPAAD Intercountry Adoptive Parent(s) Records Checklist- 2026

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Last Updated: May 18, 2026

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International, Child Placing Agency — Adoption, Intercountry Adoption

Audience: Service Providers

CPAAD Domestic Adoptive Parent(s) Records Checklist- 2026

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Last Updated: May 18, 2026

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Issue: Adoption — Private & International

Audience: Service Providers

Toolkit link to Enhanced Standard Assessment (Independent Assessment) Referral Form for County Departments

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Last Updated: Apr 10, 2025

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Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: County Directors

Trauma-Informed Care Scoring Rubric

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Last Updated: Mar 28, 2024

This document is intended to help guide agencies in developing a Trauma-Informed Care Model and will be used by the Colorado Department of Human Services- Office of Behavioral Health in scoring each agency's model.

Resource Type: Fact Sheet, Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: General Public, Service Providers

Family First Implementation Team – Workgroups

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This folder contains meeting agendas, minutes and other related documents from the different workgroups of the Implementation Team.

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

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Task Force Recommendations

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This Google Sheet provides details on the recommendations of the CHild Welfare Task Group in areas such as collaboration, advocacy, financing and more.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Trauma-Informed Care Scoring Rubric

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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2023

This is the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health scoring rubric for Qualified Residential Treatment Programs Trauma Informed Care Models. This document is intended to help guide agencies in developing effective models.

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Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First.

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Last Updated: Jul 7, 2023

}Published by the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. This tool lays the groundwork for state and local child welfare agencies to partner with the legal community to identify and address the Act’s potential legal implications as part of the implementation process. The goal of the tool…

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: — — Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment

Audience: County Directors, Judicial/Legal

Funding And Approval for Residential Treatment for Children And Youth Flow Chart

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Last Updated: Aug 16, 2022

This flowchart is designed to provide County Child Welfare agencies guidance regarding obtaining funding and approval for residential treatment for children and youth. This flowchart is also designed to work in MOST situations, understanding that some situations will require more discussion with your agency leadership and cross-system collaboration.

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Issue: Provider Services

Audience: Service Providers

CDHS Independent Assessment Toolkit

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Last Updated: Apr 22, 2022

This toolkit includes a wide range of documents and resources that provide detailed guidance on the independent assessment process.

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Issue: Independent Assessment, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, General Public, Service Providers

Colorado Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) Bench Card

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Last Updated: Oct 19, 2021

This 2-page document provides guidance/questions to consider regarding initial QRTP placement, court timelines, and court findings.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

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

Audience: County Directors

Health Care Policy and Financing – Process to become a QRTP

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Last Updated: Oct 1, 2021

This document describes the steps required to officially operate as a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) in the state of Colorado

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Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

Family First Implementation Team – Resource Documents

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Last Updated: Sep 17, 2021

This folder contains a variety of resource documents to support the work of the Family First Implementation Team.

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

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

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Colorado Service Template Write-Up

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Last Updated: Sep 14, 2021

This is an outline for documenting service information, including: description, oversight, fidelity monitoring, eligibility, etc.

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Issue: Prevention Services

Audience: Service Providers

EPB Table

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Last Updated: Sep 4, 2021

This table lists Colorado's initial proposed service array as well as anticipated future proposed services.

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Issue: Prevention Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

Juvenile Justice System Flowchart

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Last Updated: Jun 30, 2021

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Issue: — — Qualified Residential Treatment Program, Independent Assessment

Audience: Judicial/Legal

Family First Juvenile Justice Reform Flowchart

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Last Updated: Jun 30, 2021

PDF document with flow chart tool

Resource Type: Tool or Toolkit

Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

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: Independent Assessment, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: County Directors, 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.

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Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

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

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

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

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.

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Issue: Provider Services, Qualified Residential Treatment Program

Audience: Service Providers

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

Audience: County Directors, General Public, 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

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: Funding & Reimbursement, Prevention Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

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.

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, General Public, 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.

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Issue: Prevention Services

Audience: County Directors, 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.

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Issue: Prevention Services, Provider Services

Audience: County Directors, Service Providers

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