The Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act (READ Act) focuses on early literacy development for all students with special attention for students at-risk for not achieving reading proficiency by third grade. Importantly, the READ Act focuses on identifying students with significant reading deficiencies (SRD), engaging parents in the development of reading improvement plans, and … Read more >
The resource is a set of measures the Department compiles on Medicaid demographics and expenditures, in support of the Department’s annual budget requests for the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs. These tables include selected information related to utilization of services and eligibility with breakdowns by geographic location, gender, age, and other variables. Published … Read more >
This page contains regularly-updated Health First Colorado and Children Health Plan Plus Member Caseload by County, as well as monthly Medicaid expenditure and caseload reports on the Medical Services Premiums, behavioral health capitation, and the intellectual and developmental disabilities line items. Published by: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Published date: 2018
The documents on this page provide an annual snapshot by fiscal year of Health First Colorado (Colorado’s Medicaid Program) activity including average annual caseload and top five claim types for each county. Published by: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Published date: 2018
Characteristics of Colorado’s Medicaid Expansion Clients and Comparisons of Care Utilization Experiences This report examines six dimensions of the Medicaid expansion population in Colorado, including: demographic characteristics for the expansion population compared to traditional Medicaid eligibility category populations; pregnancy and childbirth care experiences of adults in the expansion and non-expansion eligibility categories; and utilization of … Read more >
This web-page contains a variety of publicly available data and reports within three tabs: Available Data – Provides a link to the Colorado Information Marketplace and archived versions of the Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report going back to April of 2016 Data Requests – Provides a link to the online data request form for the Office … Read more >
This data set, updated twice a month, allows analysts direct access to public data providing a current picture of the state of licensed child care in Colorado with individual facilities as the unit. All Colorado non-24 hour child care facilities with an open license are included along with their license number, legal business name, care … Read more >
The report provides an overview of the Nurse-Family Partnership program in Colorado. The report provides demographic information on the clients served, client outcomes, return on investment, who manages the program and how the program is funded. The Executive Summary can be found HERE. Published by: Invest In Kids Published date: February 2018
The 2018 edition of KIDS COUNT in Colorado! examines child well-being trends across the 25-year history of the comprehensive report on child well- being. From plummeting infant mortality rates to a concerning rise in teen suicides, the anniversary edition of the KIDS COUNT report offers a long-term look at how Colorado kids are faring—and what … Read more >
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic or stressful experiences, such as abuse, which occur during childhood or adolescence. Existing research shows that these negative early life experiences have long-lasting effects on an individual’s well-being. However, the burden of these experiences among Colorado adults was previously unknown. This study evaluated ten types of ACE: emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, … Read more >