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AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION
February 18, 2020
4:00 PM, City Council Chambers
130 S Galena Street, Aspen
I.WORK SESSION
I.A.Tobacco Tax / Prevention Program
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MEMORANDUM
TO:Mayor and City Council
FROM:CJ Oliver, Environmental Health and Sustainability Director
THROUGH:Sara Ott, City Manager
MEETING DATE:February 20, 2020
RE:Use of Tobacco Tax Revenues
REQUEST OF COUNCIL: Staff is presenting a plan to allocate a portion of the sales tax
revenues from the City of Aspen’s tobacco tax to help youth-based prevention efforts for
Council consideration. The proposed plan would be used to create an IGA with the
Aspen School District for the provision of the described services and activities.
SUMMARY: Beginning in 2018, the City of Aspen has collected a 40% sales tax on non-
cigarette tobacco and nicotine products and a $3 (+.10/year) per pack tax on cigarettes.
During its first year (2018), the City collected $436,622 from this tax. Ballot language to
initiate the tax in 2017 set parameters that the money could only be spent on financing
health and human services, tobacco related health issues, and addiction and substance
abuse education and mitigation. Staff is recommending a plan wherein these funds would
be spent in the coming years on a partnership with the Aspen School District to address
identified gaps in community wide services geared towards universal prevention services.
This plan came about after numerous local organizations, who are experts and interested
in public health topics, identified that there is currently very little work being done directly
with youth in the schools and other settings to prevent the use of tobacco and particularly
vaping products. This gap in services is especially impactful because vaping products
have become a significant health and safety issue for students in the Aspen School
District according to recent statewide survey data. Because of this information staff is
working with the Aspen School District and other key stakeholders to find ways to
enhance programs that will address substance use and mental health with a focus on
prevention and use the tax funds to be as impactful as possible in the community
BACKGROUND: Prior to creating the spending plan, staff worked with interested parties
including the Aspen School District, Pitkin County, Aspen Youth Center, Buddy Program,
Kids First and others to better understand the needs in the community around tobacco and
substance use as well as mental health. During these planning sessions it was clear that
the two key themes that should be a priority in the Aspen community were:
A focus on youth programming in the schools and community
An emphasis on prevention
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It was the City of Aspen’s intent not to initiate any new programs within the organization
with the funds collected from the local tobacco tax but rather to use the new money to
enhance existing programs to be able to make a greater impact on the areas specified
in the ballot language. After working with numerous stakeholders, the City identified the
Aspen School District as the best existing partner to conduct this work/ use these funds.
Due to their extensive opportunities for contact with youth and their families, the City
has focused conversations with the Aspen School District about the funding and asked
them to put together a plan for how to create maximum impact for youth nicotine and
substance use and mental health.
DISCUSSION:
The flow chart which is attached as Attachment B shows the continuum of services from
universal prevention down to crisis intervention and treatment in Pitkin County. The
additional funding that the tobacco tax can provide presents a much-needed opportunity
to focus efforts on enhancing the top of the flow chart with better prevention services,
resources and activities. Work done in the top section of the continuum can go far in
alleviating pressures at the bottom of the continuum and begin to shift the need for service
away from reactive interventions. Making this type of shift can be challenging without an
opportunity like the one presented by the tobacco tax funds. There is a consistent need
for services at the bottom end of the continuum so moving time and resources away is
often not an option. However, these additional funds present an opportunity to enhance
the top of this chart without negatively impacting the services provided at the bottom.
Phase 1 Partnership:
The Aspen School District, in conjunction with Aspen Family Connections (AFC) has
prepared a plan (Attachment A) to address the key areas identified in the ballot language
throughout the Aspen community in a way that focuses on youth and prevention in a
wholistic manner. The scope ranges from teaching young people key life skills and
educating them on the dangers of substance use to teaching parents the skills that will
help them to effectively navigate parenting a child through a maze endless temptations
and risky situations they may face. In addition, there is a component that will create a
youth advisory group, which was a key deficit identified for the Aspen community and is
a best practice across the country. This will empower youth with a voice on these
important topics and facilitate peer to peer interactions and messaging which is shown to
be an effective means of behavior change, often much more so than that which comes
from adult and parent sources alone. The plan is designed with inclusion and equity in
mind to help ensure that these services and programs are available to all who can use
them in our area. The plan focuses on the Aspen School District but is also available to
those involved in home school settings as well as informal childcare arrangements.
Phase 2 Partnership:
In addition to this plan, the City is working with Mind Springs Health, the provider of mental
health services for the district, to explore funding additional staff hours at the Aspen
School District for a mental health clinician. This position is currently a .6 FTE position,
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and the additional funding would be to bring it up to a full-time role. The cost to provide
this additional staffing would cost approximately $36,400 per year.
Information to assess the effectiveness of these programs will be available through the
recurring school-based survey system which provides data on attitudes and use patterns
for nicotine and other substances. This is a statewide survey that is conducted every two
years. The combination of additional staff time and funding for prevention services,
represents a path forward that adheres to the principals of the tobacco tax ballot language
and stands to make significant impact over the course of time.
NEXT STEPS: If Council approves the proposed plan, staff will develop an
Intergovernmental Agreement for working with the Aspen School District to administer the
tobacco tax dollars in accordance with the 2017 ballot language, reflecting the proposed
plan. Following the approval of an IGA, the provision of initial services would ideally begin
in the Spring of 2020.
Staff will present options for how to allocate the remaining annual tobacco tax funds in
accordance with Council preference, related to adult mental health services in the near
future.
FINANCIAL/BUDGET IMPACTS: The City has a 2018 tobacco tax fund balance of
$436,662 which needs to be used for financing health and human services, tobacco
related health issues, and addiction and substance abuse education and mitigation per
voter approval. The overall cost for the schools-based program outlined above is
$286,400 per year. ($250,000 for AFC activities plus $36,400 for mental heal clinical
services) This represents 66% of the overall available budget from the 2018 tobacco tax
revenues. The additional funds will be directed towards adult mental health service as
directed by council at the August 2019 work session. Options for how to best apply those
funds will be presented to city council soon.
These expenditures would be a general fund expense.
The preliminary calculations of 2019 tobacco tax collections show a slight decline, coming
in at $403,589.32.
ATTACHMENTS:
Exhibit A- Aspen School District and Aspen Family Connections Prevention Program Plan
Exhibit B- Pitkin County Continuum of Support, Resource Sharing and Collaborative Work
for At-Risk Youth and Families.
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The Aspen School District/Aspen Family Connection Prevention Program
Executive Summary:
An opportunity to invest a part of the City of Aspen Tobacco Tax revenues in the development
and promotion of a targeted, prevention-oriented approach to substance use and mental
health concerns in families and children in the Aspen community; the Program to be based on
a common understanding of risk and protective factors.
Risk and Protective factors
Many factors influence a person’s chance of developing a mental and/or substance use
disorder. Effective prevention focuses on reducing those risk factors, and strengthening
protective factors, and resilience in relation to the problems being addressed.
●Risk factors are characteristics at the biological, psychological, family, community, or
cultural level that precede and are associated with a higher likelihood of negative
outcomes.
●Protective factors are characteristics associated with a lower likelihood of negative
outcomes or that reduce a risk factor’s impact. Protective factors may be seen as
positive countering events.
●Some risk and protective factors are fixed over time, others are considered variable.
Variable risk factors include income level, peer group, adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs), and employment status. Individual-level risk factors may include a person’s
genetic predisposition to addiction or exposure to alcohol prenatally. Individual-level
protective factors might include positive self-image, self-control, or social competency
The underlying values of the ASD/AFC Prevention Program
●Innovation
●Collaboration
●Excellence
●Tenacity for growth
●Equity
●Accountability
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Key elements of the Prevention Program
●An integrated and inclusive vision for prevention activities in Aspen, focusing on our key
area of influence: family, school, peers and community
●Universal projects that impact the general population - (e.g. families with preschool children)
as well as groups with recognized or high risks of substance use (e.g. middle/high
schoolers)
●Responsive to the voices of community residents
●Collaborative: taking activities into the community and using the power of our collaborative
partnerships
●Communicate and promote shared values around prevention for children, youth and
families in creating positive long-term impacts on substance use, mental health and other
risk factors and behaviors
●Build skills, competencies and cohesion in children, youth and families
●Start early - support our youngest families
●Maximizing our community’s existing resources, collaborating to build capacity and
effectiveness, and address gaps in the provision of services and other resources
●Based on proven practices within systems that work and the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Strategic Prevention Framework
●Uses all available data relating to youth and substances (School Based Data and Healthy
Kids Colorado Survey) as well as survey data generated by the Program itself, to establish
benchmark data, targets and performance evaluation measures
Project Outline, Timeline Overview
ACTIVITIES
School Year 1 (current) School Year 2 School Year 3
Coordination begins, including
preparation of detailed budget
Establish Steering Group with Key
Partners to develop priorities for
injection of revenue
Early Childhood Connector position
activated within the community
Continuing evaluation of all
programs and adjustment of
priorities as necessary to match
funding/need and effectiveness
Establish Teen Voice Program to
provide additional advisory
capacity for the Program and
hire/train connector
Injection of funds into key
prevention programs selected by
the School District and Steering
Group participants
Develop data and survey feedback
from early childhood families to
create the Early Childhood
Connector frame of reference and
hire/train
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The Aspen School District/Aspen Family Connection Prevention Program
Detailed White Paper
What is prevention?
Prevention of tobacco and substance use in youth requires a wide-ranging and long-term strategy
and investment. Effective prevention takes aim at how people think, feel and act, by focusing
activities on areas of influence, such as the individual, family or community. We now know that
simply communicating messages about the negative consequences of substance use is not in
itself, an effective way to change behaviors and may even prove counterproductive. Successful
prevention frames the issue in terms of health and mental health - already key community priorities
- and, in doing so, invests in building up the positive protective factors that support child and
youth success.
These protective factors are already the focus of activity within the Aspen community, schools and
nonprofits, relating to conditions found in everyday life. The prevention activities might include
extracurricular activities, mentoring, parenting and family education and are all designed to support
positive family attachment, and, for children and youth, positive social orientation, coping skills,
good decision-making, resilience, engagement at school and mental wellbeing. Best practice in
prevention is programming that starts as early as possible, that builds on strengths and also
addresses multiple risk and protective factors in multiple contexts and settings.
How the ASD/AFC Prevention Program complements what is already happening in our
schools and in the wider Aspen community
Schools are an ideal venue to promote and coordinate prevention activities, and in the Aspen
School District, Aspen Family Connections which is a family resource center within the District, has
already made progress in developing a number of strands of prevention activity, in a way that is
fundamentally collaborative, working closely with many other local organizations. These local
partners include Kids First, the Aspen Youth Center, the Buddy Program, the Aspen Recreation
Department, Aspen Police Department and many others. It is important to note that the School
District’s main prevention partner is actually the City of Aspen, through the important work
undertaken by Kids First, the City’s of Aspen Day Camp and after-school program, the Red Brick
Center for the Arts, the Recreation and Parks Departments and Aspen Police Department’s school
resource officer.
Aspen Family Connections was created as a collaborative hub, to harness and maximize existing
community resources in order to support children, youth and their families - but the organization
has had to prioritize intervention with families and not been sufficiently resourced to take on the
major task of prevention, apart from our highly successful year-round, free program of events,
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speaker and parenting education opportunities. The City of Aspen Tobacco Tax funded Prevention
Program will enable this vision to be realized even more fully.
The new Aspen School District Strategic Plan, which is well advanced in its process, places family,
community and collaboration at the heart of its work, recognizing that without harmony in these
three elements, the academic mission of the School District simply cannot be realized. This is an
essential and progressive new element in the way that the District views and articulates its purpose
within our community.
The District has also adopted the CASEL Framework of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). SEL
enhances students’ capacity to integrate skills, attitudes, and behaviors to deal effectively and
ethically with daily tasks and challenges. Like many similar frameworks, CASEL’s integrated
framework promotes intrapersonal, interpersonal, and cognitive competence. There are five core
competencies that can be taught in many ways across many settings and of these settings, Homes
and Communities are identified as the foundational element - our first, and arguably the
fundamental opportunity to effect positive change in children’s lives.
A number of other important initiatives and investments will also be considered when developing a
picture of prevention within the Aspen community, including the recent,incorporation of mental
health support within schools funded, training in mental health first aid, adoption of
trauma-focused and restorative practices, among a number of other activities taking place in and
around the schools.
Healthy Kids Colorado Survey already underway: essential baseline data
The School (grades 5-12) is currently participating in the Healthy Kids Colorado survey (HKCS)-
last undertaken in 2017 & 2015 and created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and the Colorado Departments of Education (CDE), Human Services (CDHS), and Public
Health and Environment (CDPHE). These groups provide funding to the University of Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus to conduct the survey in schools.
The purpose of the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey is to better understand youth health and what
factors support youth to make healthy choices and asks students about topics including exercise,
diet, alcohol, tobacco, drug use, mental health, suicide, bullying, healthcare, and sexual behaviors
(high school only). The survey also asks students about school-life, school safety, trusted adult
relationships, and other things known to be connected with healthy choices (CLICK HERE for
statewide trend data and survey model). The extensive information from the 2017 survey has been
hugely influential in developing Aspen Family Connections, as well as in-school approaches to
social/emotional learning, and this data, arriving at the start of the ASD/AFC Prevention Program,
is perfectly timed to ensure that our activities are correctly targeted to specific local needs, as well
as providing baseline data for evaluation of success
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The key importance of understanding and prioritizing community needs and gaps
We already know that even within our well-developed continuum of services and resources, there
are some significant gaps, most of which could figure within funding priorities for the ASD/AFC
Prevention Program. The HKCS, combined with local surveys of families’ perceptions and
prevention needs, will give us a clear sight of how resources will be most effectively targeted.
The goal of the program is to augment and enhance prevention programming and local centers of
excellence and expertise, using ASD/AFC as a hub, rather than create a new infrastructure. Some
Phase 1 funding for staffing and coordination will be needed immediately to activate the program
but the intention should be to direct funding to new activities, not already funded, targeting youth,
families and programs and risk/protective factors.
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PROJECT OUTLINE
The ASD/AFC Prevention Program is dynamic, data-driven and will take effect in phases
PHASE 1 - Remainder of 2019-20 school year
1.Collaboration Steering Group established
ASD/AFC has already begun to convene a small and engaged group of active community
partners, including all the key City of Aspen partners to help advise and steer the process of
building the Prevention Program and maximize collaboration. The group is likely to be
broadened as the Program develops.
Organizations initially included: Kids First, the Aspen Youth Center, the Buddy Program,, and
the Aspen Recreation Department
The role of the partners will be to advise the School District both on the partnerships and
activities that should be prioritized in the spending plan, and on the implementation and
delivery of the projects selected.
Risk/Protective
Factors addressed
TASK/ACTIVITY Timeframe Cost
ALL Steering group meets Has already begun
District-wide survey of
families to assess the
scale of prevention
needs, barriers and
attitudes, including
●Parenting
education
●Access to
after-school
activities
●Access to
summer
activities
Spring 2020 $5,000
Steering group
assimilates early data
from HKCS and family
survey to establish
Ongoing
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targeted activities
Establish data points
from HKCS to direct
work of the Youth
Voice and Teen
Connector
Ongoing
2.Youth Voice/ Teen Connector
ASD/AFC will contract with a Youth Voice/Teen Connector who will undertake key work, not
currently staffed within our systems to establish a Youth Voice structure, involving extensive
training and support for a group of middle and high schoolers to participate, as well as a
restorative justice coordination and training component.
The key significance of the Teen Connector element of the Project, is to create a Youth Voice
advisory structure that will help inform and steer the priorities and content of the entire project.
LINK TO PROJECT DETAIL
Positive Youth Development (CDPHE)
Risk/Protective
Factors addressed
TASK/ACTIVITY Timeframe Cost
Risk Factors:
Absenteeism/low
commitment to
school, poor
community
engagement,
favorable attitudes to
tobacco and other
substances and
availability of
substances, lack of
supervision and
pro-social activities
for teens, peer
pressure and
Hire Youth Voice/Teen
Connector to work within
Aspen School District
(Middle and High
Schools). Initial 3-year
contract.
Spring 2020 $80,000
Youth Voice/Teen
Connector training and
program build
March - Youth Voice
participant recruitment
(targeting 8/9/10/11
grades for the 2020/21
school year and
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relationships etc. establishment of initial
work plan
Youth Voice training and
meeting with local
agencies: resources
needed for training,
activity budgets etc.
ongoing $20,000
Youth Advisory Council
(name TBC by group)
meets with
Social norming campaign
and a range of other
activities established in
schools and
community-wide selected
and implemented by the
Youth Advisory Council
2.Element #2 Early Childhood Family Connector
Prevention is the Key- Prevention can be effective at any age. It can have particularly strong
effects when applied early in a person’s life, when development is most easily shaped and the
child’s life is most easily set on a positive course. The Early Childhood Family Connector will
provide a much-needed link between Kids First/area preschools and preschool families, to
provide and coordinate a menu of prevention activities and options
Risk/Protective
Factors addressed
TASK/ACTIVITY Timeframe Cost
Promotion of
protective factors:
Parental resilience
(connection to
supports to weather
economic, mental
health relationship
conflict and other
hardships), social
connections (peer
and other parenting
Hire Early Childhood
Family Connector(s)
possibly two contract
positions, to conduct
outreach within the Aspen
Community
Spring 2020 $60,000
Develop extensive
collaborative program of
protective factors initiatives
to build on existing activity
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support groups),
concrete support
(connection and
understanding of
access to resources,
access to childcare
and activities at times
when families need
it), knowledge of
parenting and child
development through
parenting education,
including social and
emotional learning
and address gaps
3.Element #3 Program Coordination
Additional
staffing/contract time
for Prevention
Program
management, though
not new staff -
subsidy of existing
staffing capacity:
including adding to
parenting education
coordination, new
events, coaching,
in-home and
community-based
parenting education
opportunities
Immediate and ongoing $35,000.00
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4.Element #4 Prevention Program - Directed Funding to Programs
One that promotes
●Building on existing services and excellence
●Mental wellbeing
●Activities for children and families
●Social Connections
●School and community connection
●Inclusion over alienation
●Opportunities for young people to have a voice and a say
●Social norming
●Restorative practices, opportunities to succeed
This element of the program supports new/supplementary programs addressing important
gaps in prevention provision. The Aspen School District and AFC have already identified a
number of significant gaps to be addressed in our systems and in January 2020, the
Prevention Program Steering Group, including key City of Aspen partners, began to work on
prioritizing, and assessing for Program funding, the gaps in provision. Note, that these should
be new or supplementary activities, rather than those already funded and subject to a process
of application from existing providers. Inclusion of special populations is a major consideration,
including the needs of Latino families, children and youth, children with disabilities and others.
Illustrative examples of areas to be considered as possible priorities for funding by the
ASD/AFC Prevention Program Steering Group,
Risk/Protective
Factors addressed
ALL
TASK/ACTIVITY Timeframe Cost
When schools are
closed...
supporting families’ ability
to work, harnessed to
essential early childhood
education for most
vulnerable kids and
families. There is a
mismatch of funding for
early childcare families
who receive support from
the Colorado Preschool
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Program (CPP) whereby
there is no funding for our
most at-risk families on a
large number of days when
the School District is
closed
Summer stress: Many
lower and middle income
working families cannot
afford to keep their children
(of all ages) productively
occupied in activities
during 3-month summer
and school vacations and
scholarships do not meet
needs.
After-school stress: need
for additional funding in the
City of Aspen/ASD
after-school program (City
of Aspen Day Camp) to
pay for extra
para-professional and
other staff so that parents
of children with special
needs can access the
program (mostly not
possible at present), and to
build the after-school
program’s ability to reduce
their waiting list and admit
even more children,
allowing parents to work,
and more children to be
engaged in essential
after-school activities
Extra-curricular
supports: funds to further
support families in
accessing extra-curricular
activities for their children,
including tutoring and
executive function
coaching - to supplement
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financial assistance and
other scholarship programs
already available - at
present funding can be
found for
counseling/therapy but for
children and youth, funding
to support out-of-school
activities and academic
catch up (available to
wealthier families) can be
as beneficial.
Parenting and family
coaching: ability for AFC
to contract with providers
to deliver more parenting
education opportunities
and classes, including
in-home coaching, not
presently available
Social norming
campaign activities - this
assumes that most
individuals tend to conform
to the perceived norms of
the social groups in which
they belong, bct that in
actuality these norms are
often misperceived. In
situations concerning
high-risk health behaviors
designing a social norms
campaign to correct
misperceptions can prove
highly effective in lowering
the prevalence of such
behaviors .
Pro-social opportunities
for local teens who do not
use the Youth Center
Mentoring support for
older teens
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Targeted prevention
activities for Latino
families, children and youth
Supports for coping with
family conflict: support
groups, resources for
maximizing mediation for
families dealing with
separation, and divorce/
post-divorce/custody
issues - incentivizing
mediation can reduce
family conflict which is a
major risk factor for
children in this community
5.SUMMARY OF FUNDING PLANS (annually for 3 years) DRAFT
Element Activity
#1 Steering Group $500.00
#2 Youth Voice/Teen Connector $80,000.00
#2 Youth Voice Program Costs $20,000.00
#2 Early Childhood Family Connector $60,000.00
#3 ASD/AFC Prevention Program Coordination $35,000.00
#4 Directed directed support to programs $54.500.00
subtotal $250,000.00
2/14/2020
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PITKIN COUNTY CONTINUUM OF SUPPORT, RESOURCE-SHARING AND COLLABORATIVE WORK FOR AT-RISK YOUTH AND FAMILIES
UNIVERSAL PREVENTION SERVICES, RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES
•School-based supports, social/emotional curriculums, counseling, school-based health center and substance abuse prevention activity
•Community based programs provided by partner organizations such as The Buddy Program, Response, Aspen Youth Center, Aspen Recreation
Department, and many others
•Family/parenting prevention/support programs including AFC's program of parenting education and support, KidsFirst programs, Family Visitor support for
new families etc.
ASPEN FAMILY CONNECTIONS (AFC) AND
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF RFSD
CMP Services for referred families
•Family meetings and Individualized
Service and Support teams
•Case management
•Colorado Community Response (CCR)
•Connection/referral to a wide range of
community resources and providers
focused on youth and needs and goals,
funding support
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Services for referred families:
•Case management
•PA3 Prevention
•Core Services providing funding and
referral to providers
•CMP Family Engagement Meetings
(individualized service and support
teams for families.
•Economic Services
•Therapeutic, parenting support, life
skills and substance services
JUVENILE JUSTICE/YOUTHZONE
Services for referred families
•Diversion/deferred sentencing
•SB 94 Services and Assessment
Meetings (SAMS) for which
delinquent youth are screened in
as eligible. Standing team meets
monthly or as needed
•Case Management and SB94
funding support
COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (CMP)
MULTI-AGENCY FAMILY MEETINGS AND PROGRAMS OVERSEEN BY THE PITKIN COUNTY INTER-AGENCY OVERSIGHT GROUP (IOG)
REFERRAL PATHWAY
Child Welfare referral: 1-844-264-5437
Prevention referral: (970)-429-6122
MORE INTENSIVE SCHOOL-BASED INTERVENTION AND SERVICES
•Wide range of Special Education support services
•Programs and groups to support at-risk children, prevent truancy, provide academic support, substance abuse counseling etc.
•Referrals for mental health concerns to school-based counselors and therapists and outside providers
REFERRAL PATHWAY
AFC: (970) 205 7025
and via schools/partners/community
REFERRAL PATHWAY
Via law enforcement/judicial process
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PITKIN COUNTY IOG PARTNERS IN THE COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (CMP)
•Pitkin County Department of Health and Human Services
•9th Judicial District
•9th Judicial District Department of Probation
•Colorado Department of Youth Services
•Aspen School District
•Roaring Fork School District
•Pitkin County Department of Public Health
•Mind Springs Health
•RESPONSE
•The Buddy Program
•Kids First
•YouthZone
•S.B.94
•Mountain Family Health Centers
•Aspen Police Department
GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS
CMP: The Collaborative Management Program is a State-funded, collective community approach to serving children/youth with complex
needs through a tailored integrated approach and with child, youth and family engagement in planning, services and solutions.
SB 94: is a statewide grant initiative that provides alternatives to detention for youth, ages 10 to 17, involved in the juvenile ju stice system
PA3: Program Area 3 allows the Department of Human Services to provide preventative services to prevent abuse/neglect or alleviate the
need for involvement/further involvement in the Child Welfare system.
IOG: Interagency Oversight Group consists of all the agency partners (listed above) that oversee the CMP P rogram.
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