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

Announcements:

• Wellness Education Benefit (WEB): Stakeholder Input Requested

• World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

Memos:

• Case Management Training on Changes to the Post-Eligibility Treatment of Income and Prior Authorization Request Process

• Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Base Wage Rate Increase Attestation Final Reminder 2023

General OCL Meetings:

• NEW: Remote Supports Informational Session and Q&A with Providers

American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-Related Meetings:

• REVISED DATE: ARPA 4.03 Child and Youth Step-down Options Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) Track Request for Application (RFA) Question & Answer Meeting

• REVISED DATE AND TIME: ARPA 4.03 Child and Youth Step-down Options Children’s Habilitation Residential Program (CHRP) Track Request for Applications (RFA) Question-and-Answer Session

OCL Stakeholder Meeting Recordings:

• Have You Missed a Meeting of Interest to You?

Announcements

Wellness Education Benefit (WEB): Stakeholder Input Requested

The Community First Choice (CFC) team is seeking stakeholder input about information being considered for publication through the upcoming Wellness Education Benefit (WEB).

About the Wellness Education Benefit (WEB)

The WEB will be a monthly waiver service that mails individualized educational materials to home and community-based services (HCBS) waiver members. The WEB is designed to assist with promoting and managing health, achieving service plan goals, preventing hospitalization or health care facility placement, and promoting community living for waiver members. The launch of WEB services will occur for Children’s HCBS (CHCBS) waiver members in March 2024, and for all HCBS waiver members in March 2025.

About the Survey

The WEB team has drafted eight articles for CHCBS waiver members. Survey responses will be anonymous. We ask all interested stakeholders to review them and give us feedback in these areas:

• Information readability and ease of understanding

• Relevance of topic and content

• Benefit and usefulness of the information

• Thoughts and special considerations

Please Take the Survey by Thursday, June 22, 2023

Click here to take the WEB Article Survey

Survey responses will be anonymous.

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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

The Colorado Coalition for Elder Rights & Abuse Prevention (CCERAP) and the State Unit on Aging have asked us to share their invitation to a Colorado in-person event of the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.

For more than 20 years, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and AARP have partnered on the ElderWatch program to help educate and empower older Coloradans to recognize, refuse and report fraud, scams and financial exploitation.

Please join us for a special World Elder Abuse Awareness Day event as we celebrate the past 20 years of ElderWatch and look toward the future of protecting older adults in Colorado.

Agenda

• 9 a.m. Breakfast

• 9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks - Yolanda Webb

• 9:40 a.m. Attorney General Phil Weiser

• 10 a.m. Celebrating 20 years of ElderWatch

• 10:30 a.m. Paul Greenwood

• 11:30 a.m. Federal Enforcement on Scams

• 12 p.m. Lunch

• 1 p.m. Changing the Narrative

The event will be held:

Thursday, June 15, 2023

History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203



Register Here for This Event

Memos

These memos and other memos of interest are on HCPF's 2023 Memo Series Communication webpage.

• Operational Memo - Case Management Training on Changes to the Post-Eligibility Treatment of Income and Prior Authorization Request Process (May 31, 2023): The purpose of this memo is to notify Case Management Agencies (CMAs) of rate increases and changes to the Post-Eligibility Treatment of Income (PETI) and Prior Authorization Request (PAR) process completed in the Bridge for Alternative Care Facility (ACF) and Supportive Living Program (SLP) services. This OM will also outline the actions CMAs will need to take in response to these changes.

• Operational Memo - Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Base Wage Rate Increase Attestation Final Reminder 2023 (May 31, 2023): The purpose of this Operational Memo is to provide service providers a final reminder to complete the required attestation form for the base wage rate increase as outlined in HCPF Operational Memo 23-023 by June 30, 2023.

• Attachment - 2023 Wage Attestation Form

General OCL Meetings

Please find a general OCL meeting announcement listed below. Other OCL meeting information is on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

NEW: Remote Supports Informational Session and Q&A with Providers

The purpose of this session is to provide stakeholder information about Remote Supports and a question-and-answer period with Remote Support Providers. Remote Supports is a new service designed to meet personal care and homemaker tasks when hands-on assistance is not required. All interested stakeholders are welcome.

Members have reported increased independence and greater access to help with everyday tasks through Remote Supports.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

10 to 11 a.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Join via Phone:

(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257

Meeting ID: 993 1700 7314, Passcode: 396389

American Rescue Plan Act (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.

REVISED DATE: ARPA 4.03 Child and Youth Step-down Options Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) Track Request for Application (RFA) Question & Answer Meeting

Please note: The date for this meeting has been changed from June 7 to June 21, 2023. If you copied the event to your calendar, please delete it and replace with the updated version from the ARPA calendar.

HCPF will work with several providers to develop a viable step-down treatment program, to create models of care that are financially viable and person-centered, with a focus on those children and youth who are currently being sent out of state for services. This project will also look at the creation or expansion of a step-down service between hospitals and a short-term residential placement. Please join us for a program overview and a question-and-answer session.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

10:30 to 11:30 a.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Join by Phone:

(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257

Meeting ID: 969 4053 6000, Passcode: 115140

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REVISED DATE AND TIME: ARPA 4.03 Child and Youth Step-down Options Children’s Habilitation Residential Program (CHRP) Track Request for Applications (RFA) Question-and-Answer Session

Please note: The date and time for this meeting have been changed from June 8 to June 21, 2023, 2 to 3 p.m. MT. If you copied the event to your calendar, please delete it and replace with the updated version from the ARPA calendar.

HCPF will focus on those areas in which there are currently gaps in services and treatment programs for children and youth. These include members with Autism Spectrum Disorder, intellectual and developmental disabilities, severe emotional disturbance, as well as those with dual behavioral health and physical or developmental diagnoses. Please join us for a program overview and question and answer session. All interested stakeholders are welcome.

The meeting will be held:

Thursday, June 8, 2023

2 to 3 p.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Join by Phone:

(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257

Meeting ID: 969 4053 6000, Passcode: 115140

OCL Stakeholder Meeting Recordings

Have You Missed a Meeting of Interest to You?

These recordings are posted on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement YouTube channel as well on HCPF program-related webpages. There may be other recordings of interest to you on the channel, so please go to the channel and explore. The most recent meeting recordings are at the bottom of the page.

Below are links to recently uploaded OCL meeting recordings:

• Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Waiver Advisory Committee Meeting - May 11, 2023

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.usor the 504/ADA Coordinator at hcpf504ada@state.co.us at least one week prior to the meeting to make arrangements.

📅 General OCL Meetings can be found on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

📅 ARPA-Related Meetings can be found on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

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