Colorado Code
Article 5 - Child Welfare Services
§ 26-5-101. Definitions

As used in this article 5, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1.5) "Caseload" means the number of children who are eligible for child welfare services that are defined in subsection (3) of this section and who are currently receiving such child welfare services on a regular basis from a county.

(4.1) "County department" means a county department of human or social services.
(4.5) "Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018" means Titles IV-B and IV-E of the federal "Social Security Act", as amended.
(4.7) "Former foster care youth" means a youth at least eighteen years of age but younger than twenty-one years of age who was formerly in the legal custody or legal authority of a county department and who was placed in a certified or noncertified kinship care placement, as defined in section 26-6-102 (21); a certified or licensed facility; or a foster care home, as defined in section 26-6-102 (14) and certified pursuant to article 6 of this title 26.

(5.5) "Services for a successful adulthood" means supportive services that help former foster care youth achieve self-sufficiency. "Services for a successful adulthood" may include, but is not limited to, assistance with education, employment, financial management, housing, mental health care, and substance abuse prevention. "Services for a successful adulthood" does not include out-of-home placement, as described in section 26-5-102 (2)(i).
(5.8) "Steering committee" means the former foster care youth steering committee established pursuant to section 26-5-114.

Source: L. 73: R&RE, p. 1195, § 3. C.R.S. 1963: § 119-4-1. L. 78: (1) amended, p. 367, § 14, effective July 1. L. 86: (1) amended, p. 794, § 15, effective July 1. L. 87: (1) amended, p. 821, § 39, effective October 1. L. 96: (1) amended, p. 1696, § 40, effective January 1, 1997. L. 97: Entire section amended, p. 1426, § 1, effective June 3. L. 98: (1) and (2) amended and (1.5) added, p. 780, § 2, effective May 22. L. 2008: (3) amended, p. 10, § 1, effective August 5. L. 2009: (3)(m) and (3)(n) amended and (3)(o) added, (SB 09-104), ch. 218, p. 983, § 1, effective August 5. L. 2018: IP amended and (4.5) added, (SB 18-254), ch. 216, p. 1374, § 3, effective May 18; IP amended and (4.1), (4.7), (5.5), and (5.8) added, (HB 18-1319), ch. 217, p. 1389, § 2, effective May 18. L. 2019: IP(3) and (3)(n) amended and (3)(p) added, (HB 19-1308), ch. 256, p. 2461, § 9, effective August 2. L. 2020: (3)(q) added, (SB 20-106), ch. 128, p. 552, § 1, effective September 14.