C.R.S. Section 25.5-10-301
Legislative declaration


(1)

It is the intent of the general assembly that the service delivery system for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities emphasize community living for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and provide supports to persons that enable them to enjoy typical lifestyles. One way to accomplish this is to recognize that families are the greatest resource available to persons who have an intellectual and developmental disability and that families must be supported in their role as primary care givers. The general assembly finds that supporting families in their effort to provide supports for their family members at home is more efficient, cost-effective, and humane than maintaining persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in out-of-home residential settings. In recognition of the importance of families, the general assembly states that the following principles should be used as guidelines in developing programs to support a family that has a child with disabilities:

(a)

Families of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities are best able to determine their own needs and preferences and should be empowered to make decisions concerning necessary, desirable, and appropriate services and supports;

(b)

Families must receive the services and supports necessary to care for their children at home;

(c)

Family support must be responsive to the needs of the entire family unit;

(d)

Family support must be sensitive to the unique strengths and needs of individual families;

(e)

Family support must build on existing social networks and natural sources of support;

(f)

Family support is needed throughout the life span of the person who has a disability;

(g)

Family support must encourage the inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities within the community;

(h)

Family support services must be flexible enough to accommodate unique needs of families as they evolve over time;

(i)

Family support services must be consistent with the cultural preferences and orientations of individual families;

(j)

Family support services should be comprehensive and coordinated across the numerous agencies likely to provide resources, supports, or services to families;

(k)

Family support services should be based on the principles of sharing ordinary places, developing meaningful relationships, learning things that are useful, making choices, as well as increasing the status and enhancing the reputation of people served;

(l)

Supports should be developed by the state that are necessary, desirable, and appropriate to support families;

(m)

Intellectual and developmental disabilities programs and policies must enhance the development of the person with an intellectual and developmental disability and the family;

(n)

State programs should provide sufficient services and supports to enable families to keep their family members with intellectual and developmental disabilities at home;

(o)

A comprehensive, coordinated system of supports to families effectively uses existing resources and minimizes gaps in supports to families and persons in all areas of the state;

(p)

Services and supports provided through the family support program must be closely coordinated with early intervention services and must foster collaboration and cooperation with all agencies providing services and supports to infants and preschool children; and

(q)

Any rights, entitlements, services, or supports created by this part 3 are not to be considered a limitation, modification, or infringement on any existing rights, entitlements, services, or supports, otherwise expressly provided by this article.

(2)

In addition, the general assembly recognizes that the state department has for several years developed and maintained a family resource service program that provides support services to families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are at risk of out-of-home placement. Because of the success of this program the general assembly recommends that this valuable program be continued and expanded so that more families in this state are able to receive appropriate services, supports, and assistance needed to stabilize the family unit. In recognition of the basic goal to support families, on an individual family basis, in maintaining a person with an intellectual and developmental disability at home and in recognition of the principles stated in subsection (1) of this section, the general assembly declares that its purpose in enacting this part 3 is to create, subject to annual appropriation, a comprehensive statewide family support service program.

Source: Section 25.5-10-301 — Legislative declaration, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-25.­5.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

25.5‑10‑101
Office of community living - creation - transfer of duties and functions - rules - legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑201
Legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑202
Definitions - repeal
25.5‑10‑203
Division of intellectual and developmental disabilities - creation - functions - reporting - legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑204
Duties of the executive director - state board rules - definitions - repeal
25.5‑10‑205
Community-centered boards and service agencies - local public procurement units
25.5‑10‑206
Authorized long-term services and supports - conditions of funding - purchase of services and supports - adult protective services data system check - boards of county commissioners - appropriation
25.5‑10‑207.5
Strategic plan for long- term services and supports - joint hearing - appropriation - reporting - legislative declaration - rules
25.5‑10‑208
Service agencies and case management agencies - money - rules - repeal
25.5‑10‑209
Community-centered boards - designation - purchase of services and supports - performance audits - Colorado local government audit law - public disclosure of board administration and operations - repeal
25.5‑10‑209.3
Cross-system behavioral health crisis response - comprehensive care coordination and treatment model - training - legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑209.5
Case management agencies - certification - purchase of services and supports - rules - repeal
25.5‑10‑210
Revocation of designation - repeal
25.5‑10‑211
Eligibility determination - individualized plan - periodic review - rules - repeal
25.5‑10‑211.5
Conflict-free case management - implementation - legislative declaration - definition - repeal
25.5‑10‑212
Procedure for resolving disputes over eligibility, modification of services or supports, and termination of services or supports
25.5‑10‑213
Discharge - repeal
25.5‑10‑214
Community residential home - licenses - rules
25.5‑10‑215
Compliance with local government zoning regulations - notice to local governments - provisional licensure
25.5‑10‑216
Imposition of legal disability - removal of legal right
25.5‑10‑217
Conduct of court proceedings
25.5‑10‑218
Persons’ rights
25.5‑10‑219
Right to individualized plan or individualized family service plan - repeal
25.5‑10‑220
Right to medical care and treatment
25.5‑10‑221
Right to humane treatment
25.5‑10‑222
Right to religious belief, practice, and worship
25.5‑10‑223
Rights to communications and visits
25.5‑10‑224
Right to fair employment practices
25.5‑10‑225
Right to vote
25.5‑10‑226
Records and confidentiality of information pertaining to eligible persons or their families - repeal
25.5‑10‑227
Right to personal property
25.5‑10‑228
Right to influence policy
25.5‑10‑229
Right to notification
25.5‑10‑230
Discrimination
25.5‑10‑231
Sterilization rights
25.5‑10‑232
Competency to give consent to sterilization
25.5‑10‑233
Court-ordered sterilization
25.5‑10‑234
Confidentiality of sterilization proceedings
25.5‑10‑235
Limitations on sterilization
25.5‑10‑236
Civil action and attorney fees
25.5‑10‑237
Terminology
25.5‑10‑238
Federal funds
25.5‑10‑239
Evaluations to determine whether a defendant is mentally retarded or has an intellectual and developmental disability for purposes of class 1 felony trials
25.5‑10‑240
Retaliation prohibited
25.5‑10‑241
Host home provider stakeholder collaboration - report
25.5‑10‑301
Legislative declaration
25.5‑10‑302
Purpose
25.5‑10‑303
Administration - duties of department
25.5‑10‑304
Family support councils
25.5‑10‑305
Authorized family support services
25.5‑10‑305.5
Family support services fund - creation
25.5‑10‑306
Rules
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