2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Human Services Code
Article 18 - Family Resource Center Program
§ 26-18-102. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "At-risk neighborhood" means an urban or rural neighborhood or community in which there are incidences of poverty, unemployment and underemployment, substance abuse, crime, school dropouts, illiteracy, teen pregnancies and teen parents, domestic violence, or other conditions that put families at risk.

(2) "Case management" means the process whereby a family advocate for the family resource center assesses a family's need for services in accordance with section 26-18-104 (2).

(3) "Community applicant" means any local entity interested and willing to commit private and public resources to establish a family resource center and which applies for a family resource center grant pursuant to section 26-18-105. "Community applicant" includes, but is not limited to, any state or local governmental agency or governing body, a local private nonprofit agency, a local board of education on a cost-shared basis, a local recreational center, or a local child care agency.

(3.5) Repealed.

(4) "Family resource center" means a unified single point of entry where vulnerable families, individuals, children, and youth in communities or within at-risk neighborhoods or participants in Colorado works, pursuant to part 7 of article 2 of this title, can obtain information, assessment of needs, and referral to delivery of family services described in section 26-18-104 (2) and for which a grant is awarded to a community applicant in accordance with section 26-18-105.

(4.5) "Family support and parent education" means a program or service that promotes a family's positive and meaningful engagement in its children's lives by providing an experiential and supportive adult learning environment through which a primary caregiver can learn how to create a safe, stable, and supportive family unit.

(5) "Local advisory council" means the body that oversees the operation of the family resource center and which is described in section 26-18-105 (1) (b).

(6) Repealed.

(7) "State department" means the department of human services created in section 26-1-105.