Colorado. Division of Child Care.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
It is the policy of the Colorado Department of Human Services to require care providers to meet standards and conditions for the well being and protection of the homeless youth in their care. In furtherance of the foregoing policy considerations, the proper enforcement of these rules requires thorough and ongoing appraisal of the youth care shelter where care is provided, the staff members providing the care, and the nature and quality of the care...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
It is the policy of the Colorado Department of Human Services to promote the provision of safe and adequate 24-hour care of children in an environment designed to meet the physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs of the children at those times in the life of such children when the child's family of origin is unable or unwilling to provide adequate care. It is also the policy of the Department to require 24- hour care providers to meet standards...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Colorado's Early Childhood (EC) Councils were established in 2007 through State legislation (HB07-1062) as a network of community-based collaboratives that can help to build a "comprehensive system of early childhood councils to increase and sustain the availability, accessibility, capacity, and quality of early childhood services throughout the state." Research has demonstrated the value of high quality early childhood care and education in preparing...
