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CO Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+)

CHP+ is health insurance coverage for low-income children (18 years of age and under), medical benefits including inpatient and outpatient hospital, physician, prescription drugs, dental and mental health care.

CO Department of Human Services (CDHS)

CDHS oversees the state's 64 county departments of social/human services, the state's public mental health system, Colorado's system of services for people with developmental disabilities, the state's juvenile corrections system and all state and veterans' nursing homes. It has over 5,000 employees and works with thousands of community-based service providers.

• Early Childhood Connections (ECC)
  Early Childhood Connections is creating a system of services and supports for infants or toddlers, from birth to age three, with disabilities or a condition associated with delays in their development.
• Division of Child Care
  This is the lead agency in planning and implementing public policy on child care issues. The CDHS Division of Child Care, licenses approximately 10,000 child care facilities in the state, manages the child care subsidy programs, and is the lead agency in implementing federal child care programs.
• Division of Licensing
  The CDHS Division of Licensing licenses nearly 9,000 child care facilities in Colorado. These facilities include family child care home, child care centers, residential facilities, day treatment centers and child placement agencies.
• Child Care Center Director Qualification Review
  Persons who are seeking employment as director or substitute director of a large child care center in Colorado must apply to the Child Care Center Director Qualification Review and obtain a qualification evaluation letter from the Colorado Division of Child Care.
• Colorado Child Care Assistance Program
  This provides financial assistance to low-income families that are working, searching for employment or in training, and families that are enrolled in the Colorado Works Program and need child care services to support their efforts toward self-sufficiency.
• Division of Child Welfare Services
  Child Welfare Services is a state-supervised county-administered system. It has specialized services intended to strengthen the ability of families to protect and care for their own children, minimize harm to children and youth, and ensure timely permanency planning.
• Division of Child Welfare Services Title IV-E Program
  This provides federal funding to states to ensure proper care for eligible children who need placement outside their homes in a foster care. It also provides ongoing assistance to eligible children with special needs receiving adoption subsidies.
• Division of Mental Health Services
  The Division of Mental Health provides statewide services for persons with serious mental illness of all ages, delivering those services through contracts with six specialty clinics and 17 private, non-profit communities' mental health centers.
• Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
  The CSFP is a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture supplemental food program for low income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum non-breastfeeding women (up to 1 year after the birth of the child), their infants and children (up to age 6), and senior citizens 60 years of age and older.
• Colorado Food Stamps Program
  The Colorado State Food Stamps Program assists low-income individuals and families who need assistance purchasing food. Individuals and families should apply for food stamp benefits at their local county department of social services.
• Colorado Works Program
  The Colorado Works Division supports the activities of the county departments of social services in implementing the Colorado Works program. The Colorado Works Program serves low-income families with children by providing income assistance and supportive services to help participants become and remain self-sufficient. Colorado Works is the new program that replaced the AFDC and JOBS programs.

Criminal Background Checks Unit (CBC)

The CBC works with the Division of Child Care to conduct fingerprint-based criminal background checks on employees, operators of licensed child care facilities, and adults residing in a licensed facility.

Child Support Enforcement

The Child Support Enforcement Division supervises the administration and operation of the county child support enforcement units. They locate non-custodial parents and their assets, establish paternity, establish child support and medical support orders, enforce child support orders and collect child support payments, and enforce medical support orders.

CO Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE)

The CDPHE's Child, Adolescent and School Health Unit leads efforts to improve the health and well being of all Colorado children and adolescents through health promotion, public health prevention programs, and access to health care. It includes the Colorado Children's Trust Fund, Healthy Child Care Colorado, the Nurse Home Visitor Program and the Tony Grampsas Youth Services (TGYS) Program.

• Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
  WIC is a nutrition program for pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding mothers, and their infants and children up to the age of five.

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