Resources, Forms & Trainings

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.

The guide is a question-and-answer-style resource containing commonly (and not-so-commonly) asked questions about the many important provisions in Family First.

}This guide highlights the impact of selected areas on agency/County attorneys, guardians ad litem, counsel for children, respondent parents’ counsel and judges.

}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 is to facilitate conversations and collaboration with the legal community to maximize Family First’s positive impact for children and families.

List of documents which must be submitted to the Provider Services Unit prior to a new license being issued for a Specialized Group Facility