The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: Colorado ranks fortieth in the nation in the school nurse-to-student ratio; The federal center for disease control’s healthy people 2020 recommended one school nurse for every seven hundred fifty general education students, but many school nurses in Colorado are responsible for as many as six thousand students, […]
As used in this article 96, unless the context otherwise requires: “Behavioral health care” means services to prevent, identify, and treat substance use disorders, substance misuse, and mental health disorders, including services to support social-emotional health. (1.5) “Department” means the department of education created and existing pursuant to section 24-1-115. “Education provider” means a school […]
There is created in the department the behavioral health care professional matching grant program, referred to in this article 96 as the “program”, to provide funding to education providers for the following purposes: To increase the presence of school health professionals in schools to provide behavioral health care to students who have mental health, substance […]
An education provider that seeks a grant from the program shall submit an application to the department in accordance with the rules adopted by the state board. The department shall review each application received from an education provider and make recommendations to the state board concerning whether a grant should be awarded to the education […]
In any fiscal year in which the general assembly makes an appropriation to the department for the purposes of the program, each education provider that receives a grant through the program shall report the following information to the department each year during the term of the grant: The number of school health professionals hired using […]
