§ 19-2.5-1502 — Human services facilities - authority

Colorado § 19-2.5-1502

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 19: Children's
• Art.: The Colorado Juvenile Justice System

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(1) The department of
human services shall establish and operate facilities necessary for the care,
education, training, treatment, and rehabilitation of juveniles legally committed to
its custody pursuant to section 19-2.5-1127 or 19-2.5-1103. As necessary and when
money is available for such purposes, the facilities may include but are not limited
to:

(a) Group care facilities and homes, including halfway houses, nonresidential
transition programs, day reporting and day treatment centers, and staff secure
facilities;

(b) Training schools;

(c) Conservation camps;

(d) Diagnostic and evaluation centers and receiving centers; and

(e) Any programs necessary to implement the purposes of this section for
juveniles in community placement.

(2) The department of human services shall cooperate with other
governmental units and agencies, including appropriate local units of government,
state departments and institutions, and agencies of the federal government in order
to facilitate youth training and rehabilitation.

(3) Once a juvenile is committed to the department of human services, the
juvenile shall remain in a facility directly operated by the department of human
services or in a secure facility contracted for by the department of human services
until the juvenile's commitment expires as provided by law, parole status is granted
pursuant to part 12 of this article 2.5, or a community placement is approved by
order of the juvenile court and by a juvenile community review board, if one exists in
the county of proposed placement.

(4) The department of human services shall contract with the department of
corrections to house in an appropriate facility operated by the department of
human services and, as appropriate, to provide services to any juvenile under the
age of fourteen years who is sentenced as an adult to the department of
corrections. On reaching fourteen years of age, any juvenile sentenced to the
department of corrections shall be transferred to an appropriate facility operated
by the department of corrections for the completion of the juvenile's sentence.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2021: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 21-059), ch. 136, p. 689, � 2, effective October 1.