Colorado § 26.5-3-901 Legislative declaration

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§ 26.5-3-901 — Legislative declaration

Colorado § 26.5-3-901

Title 26.5Early

Art.Family and Child Health and Well-being

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 26.5-3-901 (2026).

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(1)The general assembly finds and declares that:

(a)Traditional methods of delivering family-strengthening service programs, which often require parents and their children to travel to a program site to access services delivered simultaneously to multiple families, often create barriers, such as limited access to transportation or creation of a stigma around receiving services, that prevent families, especially low-income families, from receiving the benefits of the services;

(b)Evidence demonstrates that voluntary, high-quality, evidence-based programs that deliver family-strengthening support services help parents and other caregivers develop the skills and confidence needed to promote their children's healthy development and learning;

(c)Home visiting is a service delive

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(1) The general assembly finds and
declares that:

(a) Traditional methods of delivering family-strengthening service programs,
which often require parents and their children to travel to a program site to access
services delivered simultaneously to multiple families, often create barriers, such
as limited access to transportation or creation of a stigma around receiving
services, that prevent families, especially low-income families, from receiving the
benefits of the services;

(b) Evidence demonstrates that voluntary, high-quality, evidence-based
programs that deliver family-strengthening support services help parents and other
caregivers develop the skills and confidence needed to promote their children's
healthy development and learning;

(c) Home visiting is a service delivery strategy that is successfully used to
deliver a wide array of high-quality, voluntary family-strengthening support
services and that enables families to overcome barriers to access because the
services are delivered in the home or other convenient settings, which are often
selected by the family;

(d) Home visiting is a service delivery strategy that can be leveraged to
provide high-quality, voluntary, family-strengthening support services to more
Colorado families who have fewer resources and are exposed to risk factors that
may lead to poor outcomes in child development. Using home visiting to provide
these services results in a strong return on investment by improving school
readiness and helping Colorado's children reach their full potential.

(e) Family-strengthening support services that are delivered through home
visiting have also demonstrated improved family and child outcomes by promoting
solid parent-child relationships, improving child and parental social-emotional and
physical health, improving family economic security, identifying developmental
delays early, providing timely child welfare intervention services, and preventing
trauma and toxic stress.

(2) The general assembly finds, therefore, that authorizing grant programs to
support home visiting programs that deliver high-quality, voluntary, family-strengthening support services is one of the best strategies available to support
parents and other caregivers in preparing children for future success and ensure all
Colorado children are ready to learn when they arrive at school.