Resources, Forms & Trainings

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

This Fact Sheet highlights the overarching goals of Family First and describes the key components related to placement and prevention services.

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.

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.

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.

This form provides a checklist of requirements that are part of the inspection of service provides seeking to become Qualified Residential Treatment Programs.