Senate Bill 15-241 Summary

• Establishes a uniform statewide system of collaborative management for multi-agency services to children and families in Colorado's child welfare and foster care systems.

• Requires the Department of Human Services to ensure statewide consistency in memorandums of understanding between agencies and defines the target population as at-risk children and youth from birth to age 21 who would benefit from integrated multi-system service plans.

• Mandates development of performance measures for the collaborative management system, with parties reporting annually to the Department of Human Services on their performance metrics identified in their memorandum of understanding.

• Requires annual external evaluations of both participating and non-participating counties conducted by independent outside entities to assess program effectiveness and achievement of performance measures.

• Appropriates $1,856,635 for fiscal year 2015-16, comprising $1,500,000 for incentive allocations, $106,635 for program administration (1.5 FTE), and $250,000 for annual external evaluations.