2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Human Services Code
Article 5.3 - Emergency Assistance for Families With Children at Imminent Risk of Out-of-Home Placement Act
§ 26-5.3-105. Eligibility requirements - period of eligibility - services available

(1) Families with children at imminent risk of out-of-home placement shall be eligible for emergency assistance. Assistance shall be available to or on behalf of a needy child under twenty-one years of age and any other member of the household in which the child lives if:

(a) Such child is living with any of the relatives described in section 26-2-103 (4) (a) in a place of residence maintained by the relative as the relative's own home;

(b) Such child is without resources immediately accessible to meet the child's needs; and

(c) The emergency assistance is necessary to avoid destitution or to provide living arrangements for the child in a home.

(2) Assistance shall be authorized for a family no more than once during a twelve-month period.

(3) Emergency assistance provided pursuant to this article shall be used for, but shall not be limited to, the following:

(a) Twenty-four-hour emergency shelter facilities or caretakers for children who must be removed from their homes in emergency situations;

(b) Counseling, including crisis counseling available by telephone twenty-four hours a day;

(c) Information referral;

(d) Intensive family preservation services;

(e) In-home supportive homemaker services;

(f) Services used to develop and implement a discrete case plan, as provided by the federal "Social Security Act";

(g) Day treatment services for children.