§ 19-2.5-613 — Advisement of services

Colorado § 19-2.5-613

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

Text

(1) For any juvenile who is sixteen years
of age or older, before terminating jurisdiction, the court shall advise the juvenile
that:

(a) If the juvenile was in foster care at sixteen years of age or older, or in
noncertified kinship care and adjudicated dependent and neglected, then the
juvenile has the right to begin voluntarily receiving child welfare services on or
after reaching eighteen years of age through the foster youth in transition program,
established in part 3 of article 7 of this title 19, until the juvenile's twenty-first
birthday, or such greater age of foster care eligibility as required by federal law;

(b) The foster youth in transition program provides the juvenile with access
to financial support for housing and other services, as outlined in section 19-7-305;
and

(c) If the juvenile is eligible for the foster youth in transition program, the
juvenile has the right to counsel through the office of the child's representative.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2022: Entire section added, (HB 22-1245), ch. 88, p. 417, � 2, effective August 10.