C.R.S. § 26-5.3-105: Eligibility requirements - period of eligibility - services available.

(1) Families with children or youth at imminent risk of out-of-home placement are eligible for emergency assistance. Assistance is available to or on behalf of a needy child or youth who is less than twenty-one years of age and any other member of the household in which the child or youth lives if:

(a) The child or youth is living with kin, as defined in section 26-6-903, in a place of residence maintained by the kin;

(b) Such child is without resources immediately accessible to meet the child's needs; and

(c) The emergency assistance is necessary to avoid destitution or to provide living arrangements for the child in a home.

(2) Assistance shall be authorized for a family no more than once during a twelve-month period.

(3) Emergency assistance provided pursuant to this article 5.3 may be used for, but is not limited to:

(a) Twenty-four-hour emergency shelter facilities or caretakers for children who must be removed from their homes in emergency situations;

(b) Counseling, including crisis counseling available by telephone twenty-four hours a day;

(c) Information referral;

(d) Intensive family preservation services;

(e) Repealed.

(f) Services used to develop and implement a discrete case plan, as provided by the federal "Social Security Act";

(g) Day treatment services for children.

(h) Goods needed for the child's basic care, including beds, clothing, and transportation costs; and

(i) Limited rental or housing assistance, not to exceed a sixty-day subsidy.