2017 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Behavioral Health
Mental Health and Mental Health Disorders
Article 69 - Family Advocacy Mental Health Juvenile Justice Programs
§ 27-69-104. Program scope - rules

(1) The office shall promulgate rules and standards, after consultation with family advocacy coalitions and other stakeholders, for family advocacy behavioral and mental health juvenile justice programs for system-of-care family advocates and family systems navigators for behavioral or mental health juvenile justice populations. The programs must:

(a) Focus on youth with behavioral, mental health, or co-occurring disorders who are involved in or at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system and be based upon the families' and youths' strengths; and

(b) Provide navigation, crisis response, integrated planning, transition services, and diversion from the juvenile justice system for youth with behavioral, mental health, or co-occurring disorders.

(2) The office shall provide technical assistance and coordination of family advocacy behavioral and mental health juvenile justice programs throughout the state that provide system-of-care family advocates and family systems navigators for behavioral or mental health juvenile justice populations with support to implement and sustain programs that best meet the needs of youth, families, and communities.

(3) Key components of the family advocacy behavioral and mental health juvenile justice programs for system-of-care family advocates and family systems navigators for behavioral or mental health juvenile justice populations include:

(a) Coordination with the key stakeholders involved in the local community to ensure consistent and effective collaboration. This collaboration may include, but need not be limited to, a family advocacy organization, representatives of the juvenile court, the probation department, the district attorney's office, the public defender's office, a school district, the division of youth services within the department of human services, a county department of social or human services, a local community mental health center, and a regional behavioral health organization, and may include representatives of a local law enforcement agency, a county public health department, a substance use disorder treatment program, a community-centered board, a local juvenile services planning committee, and other community partners;

(b) Services to youth with behavioral, mental health, or co-occurring disorders who are involved in or at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system and other state and local systems;

(c) Policies concerning the work of family advocates or family systems navigators that include:

(I) Experience and hiring requirements;

(II) The provision of appropriate training; and

(III) A definition of roles and responsibilities; and

(d) Services provided by system-of-care family advocates or family systems navigators for behavioral or mental health juvenile justice populations must include:

(I) Strengths, needs, and cultural assessment;

(II) Navigation and support services;

(III) Education programs related to behavioral, mental health, or co-occurring disorders; youth and family involvement in the system of care; the juvenile justice system; and other relevant systems;

(IV) Cooperative training programs for family advocates or family systems navigators and for staff, where applicable, of behavioral or mental health disorders, physical health, substance abuse and substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, and other state and local systems related to the role and partnership between the family advocates or family systems navigators and the systems affecting youth and their family;

(V) Integrated crisis response services and crisis and transition planning;

(VI) Access to diversion and other services to improve outcomes for youth and their families;

(VII) Other services as determined by the local community; and

(VIII) Coordination with the local community mental health center.

(e) and (f) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2011, (HB 11-1193), ch. 71, p. 194, § 4, effective March 29, 2011.)

(4) to (6) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2011, (HB 11-1193), ch. 71, p. 194, § 4, effective March 29, 2011.)