The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has the following information to share below:

Announcements:

• REMINDER: Apply Now for the HCPF Criminal Justice Collaborative

Memos:

• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) Transition to New Rules and Regulations
• Public Notice for Spring 2024 1915(c) Waiver Amendments and Renewals

General American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-Related Meetings:

• Community First Choice (CFC) Council Meeting

Announcement

REMINDER: Apply Now for the HCPF Criminal Justice Collaborative

HCPF is seeking applicants for the HCPF Criminal Justice Collaborative.

The Collaborative will ensure robust stakeholder participation to provide ongoing feedback in the development of criminal justice projects including: ARPA 8.10 - Criminal Justice Partnerships, Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) 5121 - Juvenile Justice Transition Support, and the 1115 Re-entry Waiver.

The Collaborative will meet monthly beginning in February to provide feedback on presentations, reports, and work products.

Please complete this application by Friday, Feb. 9, 2024.

Applicants can apply to represent the following groups:

• Counties (DHS)

• Prisons (DOC)

• Probation

• Jails

• Providers - Physical Health, Behavioral Health & MAT

• People who have been incarcerated

• RAEs

• Advocates

• CHP+ representation

• Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) Criminal Justice Team

• Division of Youth Services (DYS) Team

Please reach out to hannah.hall@state.co.us with any questions, comments, or concerns.

Memos

This memo and other memos of interest are on HCPF's 2024 Memo Series Communication webpage.

• Informational Memo - Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) Transition to New Rules and Regulations (Jan. 30, 2024) : The purpose of this Informational Memo is to inform stakeholders of the adopted changes to the Code of Colorado Regulations (10 CCR 2505 – Volume 8) and how those changes will impact surveying completed by the Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE).
• Informational Memo - Public Notice for Spring 2024 1915(c) Waiver Amendments and Renewals (Jan. 31, 2024) : The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) invites the public to comment on proposed waiver amendments to six (6) of Colorado’s Home and Community-Based (HCBS) waivers: Persons with Brain Injury (BI), Elderly, Blind, and Disabled (EBD), Children with Life Limiting Illness (CLLI), Children’s Home and Community-Based Services (CHCBS), Community Mental Health Supports (CMHS), Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH). HCPF also invites the public to comment on the waiver renewals of four (4) of Colorado’s HCBS waivers: Supported Living Services (SLS), Developmental Disabilities (DD), Children’s Extensive Supports (CES), Children’s Habilitation Residential Program (CHRP).

ARPA-Related Meetings

Please find an ARPA-related meeting announcement listed below. Other ARPA-related meeting information is on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

Community First Choice (CFC) Council Meeting

The Community First Choice (CFC) Council is in place to collaborate with and advise HCPF on the design and implementation of a CFC option in Colorado. Primarily made up of individuals with disabilities, those 65 years or older, and their representatives, the council’s experience and expertise will help ensure that CFC is implemented in a way that best meets the needs of Coloradoans with disabilities.

Agendas, presentations, and other related materials for council meetings are on the CFC Stakeholder Opportunities webpage.

For more information, contact the CFC team at HCPF_CFC@state.co.us.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

10 to 11:30 a.m. MT

Meeting topic:

Timeline updates and stakeholder engagement suggestions

Join via Google Meet

Join via Phone:

1-260-230-1249, PIN: 719 313 221#

Need to Make an Accommodation Request for One of Our General OCL or ARPA-Related Stakeholder Meetings?

Reasonable accommodations for all OCL and ARPA-related stakeholder meetings will be provided upon request for persons with disabilities. Auxiliary aids and services for individuals with disabilities and language services for individuals whose first language is not English may be provided upon request. Please notify John Barry at 303-866-3173 or John.R.Barry@state.co.us or the 504/ADA Coordinator at hcpf504ada@state.co.us at least one week prior to the meeting to make arrangements.

General OCL Meetings are on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

ARPA-Related Meetings are on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

Looking for Prior OCL Communications?

Do you know about the OCL LTSS Newsletter Archive? On this page, you can:

• Search OCL newsletters back to January 2022

• Subscribe to the newsletter

• Keep track of OCL announcements, meeting reminders, and memos