In order to provide for the commitment or sentencing of children to the various institutions of the state of Colorado most suited to their care, rehabilitation, and treatment, to provide the administrative authorities of such institutions with social and medical case histories of children committed or sentenced to such institutions, and to provide the courts […]
The center shall be under the general supervision and control of the regents of the university of Colorado. The governor shall instruct the executive director of the department of human services to cooperate with the regents to provide the diagnostic services provided for by this article. Source: L. 55: p. 807, § 2. CRS 53: […]
A child may be referred to the medical center for diagnostic evaluation and study under the following conditions: A judge who has before him or her the matter of possible certification, commitment, or sentencing of a child to one of the institutions of the state may have an evaluation of the child made at the […]
For the making of any diagnostic evaluation before certification or commitment, the district judge or juvenile judge shall give the temporary custody of the child to the executive director of the department of human services for temporary placement at any state institution deemed most suitable by the executive director during the period of evaluation. Subject […]
The district or juvenile judge requesting a diagnostic evaluation of any child in his county to be made at the center shall appoint a guardian to accompany such child to the center. The full costs of the transportation and subsistence of such child and guardian to and from the center and during the period of […]
Any district judge may, in order to eliminate the cost of returning any child back to his county of residence after such diagnosis is completed, designate the juvenile court of the city and county of Denver as master or magistrate to hear any additional evidence that may be necessary in the case. He may then, […]
In order to facilitate the work of the center in making a diagnostic evaluation of a child as provided in this article, the county department of social services of the county of the child’s residence or any licensed children’s agency in such county shall prepare and forward to the center a social and medical case […]
The director of the Colorado children’s diagnostic center shall determine whether a child referred by an institution or by a district or juvenile court shall be accepted for study and evaluation at the diagnostic center. Such determination shall be based on the adequacy and availability of local facilities, including local community mental health clinics, for […]
