{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-26-5-114","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 26-5-114","heading":"Former foster care youth steering committee - implementation plan - recommendations.","body":"(1) The state department shall establish a former foster care youth steering committee that includes comprehensive and appropriate stakeholder representation from the state and county level. The state department shall convene the committee on or before October 30, 2018. The steering committee shall:\n\n(a) Develop an implementation plan that allows former foster care youth to receive services for a successful adulthood or assistance in returning to placement, as well as alternatives to returning to placement after reaching eighteen years of age but before reaching twenty-one years of age, or a later age if so recommended by the steering committee, and after the county department's jurisdiction ends;\n\n(b) Make recommendations relating to the operation, evaluation, and sustainability of the implementation plan. In making its recommendations, the steering committee shall use a consensus-based approach.\n\n(c) Coordinate with other committees formed by the general assembly that have similar or overlapping jurisdictional tasks or purposes.\n\n(2) Repealed.\n\n(3) The implementation plan recommended by the steering committee pursuant to this section is not required to become operational unless adequate state and federal funding is available.","path":["Title 26 - HUMAN SERVICES CODE","Article 5 - Child Welfare Services"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-26.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"4cfc2af25eb9145d91e27e05c7ad30f7b981d93fe015ef3b135af114d8a845bc","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-26-5-113","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-26-5-115"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}