To prepare offenders for progressive transition throughout their incarceration with meaningful dialogue, positive reinforcement, services, and accountability that will lead to their successful re-entry as law-abiding citizens.
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) has been working toward improving services and supports provided to children in the state with both an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD) and a mental health condition. Meeting the unique needs of these children can be particularly challenging because services, programs, providers and the entities responsible for the coordination of supports are typically determined by an individual's disability type or diagnosis. However, determining whether an individual's behavioral or emotional symptoms derive from an intellectual or developmental disability, organic brain pathology, or a mental illness, is complicated.
The Colorado GEAR UP program provides a comprehensive college preparatory program aimed at addressing at-risk student academic weaknesses through intensive remediation, college readiness, and concurrent enrollment. Colorado GEAR UP II (CGUII) was a federally-funded grant that ran from 2005 to 2012 and served low-income and first-generation students in 12 high schools across the state. CGUII students receive a $10,000 scholarship for postsecondary enrollment.
State agencies work to improve the health and well being of Colorado's children and youth by coordinating programs at the state level to ensure that those programs are responsive to the needs of communities in order to more effectively serve this population.
Offenders on regular parole have mental health services and sex offender treatment available to them through the division's ATP service network. Offenders with a mental health code of P3 or above may be eligible for ATP services through treatment referrals from their respective community parole officer. The division coordinates the offender's treatment through the ATP Network and also works closely with the State's local mental health centers. In order for an offender to get credit for their parole ordered treatment, the treatment provider must be ATP approved.
