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The Colorado Parenting Time Project was designed to assess whether identifying parents with visitation problems in the child support caseload and providing services aimed at resolving them improves parent-child contact and the subsequent payment of child support.

The Family Integrated Treatment Collaborative (FITC) is a special program designed to help you and your children get back together or stay together. To reach that goal, this program will help you recover from challenges you and your family may be facing. The team will refer you to services that will meet your family's needs and monitor your progress. The FITC team will also help to make sure that while you or your child are in treatment; you stay...

In January 2010, the Chief Justice charged the Standing Committee on Family Issues (Family Issues Committee) to study the quality assurance and oversight of Child and Family Investigators (CFIs) and Parenting Coordinators (PCs) in domestic relations cases. The Family Issues Committee has preliminarily identified that changes to the current Chief Justice Directives and statutes will likely be required to achieve system improvement and will continue...

Discussion by judges and court officers about the project for parties involved in domestic relations cases to meet outside the court room to work out differences early in the process. A two person team one a mental health professional and one legal professional meets with the family. The team gives them a realistic expectation of what would happen in a court case. This helps the people make the decisions themselves. People are happier with the results...

"A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards-giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan...

The Domestic Violence Program is the state government entity responsible for administering funding to Colorado's community-based domestic violence crisis centers (funded crisis centers) as well as providing technical assistance, training, and consultation to state, county, and other programs. As such, the Domestic Violence Program works collaboratively with CDHS programs, and county and non-governmental agencies to develop state domestic violence...