Resources, Forms & Trainings

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 through OBH.

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.

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

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 residential treatment facilities. Section 7.714.53, et seq., and the applicable definitions in Section 7.714.1, also apply to approved family foster care homes and day treatment centers.

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