The bill implements the recommendations of the behavioral health
transformational task force concerning youth and family residential care. Specifically, the bill:
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Creates in-home and residential respite care in 10-12 regions of the state for children and families;
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Provides operational support for psychiatric residential
treatment facilities and qualified residential treatment programs for youth; and
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Provides funds to build and staff a neuro-psych facility at the Colorado mental health institute at Fort Logan.
The bill requires the general assembly to appropriate money from
the behavioral and mental health cash fund to the department of human services to implement the provisions of the bill.
