Colorado Title IV-E Waiver Child Welfare Demonstration Project Proposal

July 9, 2012
In its Title IV-E waiver application, the Colorado Department of Human Services (DHS) proposed focusing its efforts on three federal child welfare goals: increase permanency for children, to increase positive outcomes for children and families, and to prevent child abuse and neglect and re-entry to out-of-home care. All 64 counties will participate. To meet its goals, DHS plans to expand a differential response pilot, strengthen its permanency planning procedures, and enable counties to pay for preventive services especially for children with behavioral health issues at risk of entering the foster care system to . . .