Press Release

The Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons was ranked the No.1 nursing home in Colorado by Newsweek and in the top 25 out of almost 12,000 across 25 states.

Gov. Jared Polis has proclaimed August to be Child Support Awareness Month, following another year of exceptional innovation in the Colorado Division of Child Support Services.

Pedro Almeida has been appointed as deputy executive director of Administrative Solutions for the Colorado Department of Human Services.

Cole Chandler, co-founder and executive director of Colorado Village Collaborative, has been hired as director of homelessness initiatives for the Colorado Department of Human Services.

Leora Joseph has been hired as the director of the Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) for the Colorado Department of Human Services. OBH now includes the two Mental Health Institutes at Pueblo and Fort Logan and Forensic Services.

The Colorado Department of Human Services' Food Distribution Programs have received $844,261 in grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service to improve The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).

House Bill 22-1278 was signed into law today, officially establishing the duties of Colorado's Behavioral Health Administration, set to launch on July 1. The BHA is a new state agency tasked with transforming mental health care and substance use treatment in Colorado. 

The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is calling for applications to the Colorado Commission on Aging. This expanded commission comes as Colorado is celebrating Older Adult Month.

Today, Gov. Jared Polis announced a partnership with Mothers’ Milk Bank through the Rocky Mountain Children’s Health Foundation to help address the baby formula shortage that is affecting families in Colorado and across the United States.

Colorado is proud to announce the I Matter program will receive an additional $6 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding following the passage of House Bill 22-1243