The general assembly hereby finds that children and families often benefit from treatment and services that involve multiple agencies, divisions, units, and sections of departments at the state and county level. The general assembly further finds that the development of a uniform system of collaborative management is necessary for agencies at the state and county […]
Local representatives of each of the agencies specified in this subsection (1)(a) and county departments of human or social services may enter into memorandums of understanding that are designed to promote a collaborative system of local-level interagency oversight groups and individualized service and support teams to coordinate and manage the provision of services to children […]
The department of human services shall ensure that an annual external evaluation of the statewide program and each county or regional program is conducted by an independent outside entity. The department may contract with the outside entity to conduct an external evaluation of those counties that opted not to participate in the collaborative management program. […]
The department of human services shall develop and implement training for counties participating in or interested in participating in the collaborative management program. The department of human services shall utilize moneys in the performance-based collaborative management incentive cash fund created in section 24-1.9-104, or any general fund moneys appropriated for this purpose, to develop and […]
Commencing January 1, 2007, and on or before each January 1 thereafter, each interagency oversight group shall provide a report to the executive director of each department and agency that is a party to any memorandum of understanding entered into that includes: The number of children and families served through the local-level individualized service and […]
On July 1, 2005, there shall be created in the state treasury the performance-based collaborative management incentive cash fund, which shall be referred to in this section as the “fund”. The moneys in the fund shall be subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly to the department of human services for state fiscal year […]
