§ 25-20.5-106. State board of health - rules - program duties

CO Rev Stat § 25-20.5-106 (2018) (N/A)
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(1) The state board of health created in section 25-1-103 shall promulgate rules as necessary for the operation of the division, including but not limited to rules establishing the time frames for review of the state plan and submittal of any revised state plan to the governor and the executive director and to the entities specified in section 25-20.5-105 (4).

(2) The state board of health also shall adopt rules for the uniform operation of federally and state-funded prevention, intervention, and treatment programs. In adopting such rules, the board shall take into account prevention, intervention, and treatment programs' need for responsiveness and flexibility and their need for procedures and standards that will ensure the provision of programs that meet a high standard of excellence. At a minimum such rules must include:

(a) Standardized procedures for the operation of prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, including but not limited to:

(I) The use of a system whereby entities may use a single application to seek funding from a variety of prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(II) The use of uniform application forms promulgated by rule of the state board of health;

(III) Uniform standards regarding the information to be submitted by entities applying for funding for community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(IV) Uniform application dates to the extent possible for all prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(V) Uniform standards for selecting community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive funding through state prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(VI) Uniform monitoring and reporting forms, including rules to ensure that no prevention, intervention, and treatment program is required to submit more than one annual report;

(VII) A standard database of service providers by location;

(VIII) Internet access to each prevention, intervention, and treatment program;

(IX) The ability to submit applications and report submissions through the internet; and

(X) The use of contracts to combine multiple state and federal funding sources provided by or through various state agencies as a single funding grant to a prevention, intervention, and treatment program;

(b) Uniform, minimum standards for prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, including but not limited to requirements that each prevention, intervention, and treatment program that receives state or federal funds:

(I) Provide research-based prevention, intervention, and treatment services that have been previously implemented in one or more communities with demonstrated success or that otherwise demonstrate a reasonable potential for success; and

(II) Provide outcome-based prevention, intervention, and treatment services, specifying the outcomes to be achieved; and

(III) Work collaboratively with other public and private prevention, intervention, and treatment programs in the community and with local governments, county, district, and municipal public health agencies, county departments of human or social services, and faith-based organizations in the community;

(c) Uniform standards and procedures for reviewing state and local prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive state or federal funds;

(d) Performance standards and measurable outcomes for state and local prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive state or federal funds;

(e) Criteria for determining whether a program operated by a state agency constitutes a prevention, intervention, and treatment program;

(f) A formula for calculating the amount forwarded to the division by each prevention, intervention, and treatment program to offset the costs incurred by the division in reviewing the programs.

(3) The state board of health shall act as the program board for the oversight of the prevention and intervention programs operated by the division.

(4) In addition to any other duties specified in law, the state board of health shall have the following duties:

(a) Repealed.

(b) To assist division personnel in working with communities and local elected officials to identify the communities' prevention, intervention, and treatment services needs;

(c) To assist division personnel in reviewing the performance of prevention, intervention, and treatment programs created in this article.