HB 22-1283

House Bill 22-1283, also known as the Youth and Family Behavioral Health Care Act, aims to improve mental health services for young people in Colorado. The bill provides funding for psychiatric treatment facilities, creates respite care programs for families and children across seven regions of the state, and allocates money to build a specialized neuro-psych facility at Fort Logan. This means more support and resources will be available for youth and their families dealing with behavioral health issues. Since the bill has been signed into law, these initiatives are now in the process of being implemented by相关部门。这意味着科罗拉多州的年轻人及其家庭在处理行为健康问题时将有更多的支持和资源可用。由于该法案已签署成为法律，这些倡议现在正在由相关机构实施中。

Official Summary

The act implements the recommendations of the behavioral health transformational task force concerning youth and family residential care. Specifically, the act: Provides operational support for psychiatric residential treatment facilities and qualified residential treatment programs for youth; Creates in-home and residential respite care in up to 7 regions of the state for children and families; and Provides funds to build and staff a neuro-psych facility at the Colorado mental health institute at Fort Logan. The act makes the following appropriations to the department of human services from the behavioral and mental health cash fund: $11,628,023 is appropriated for respite and residential programs; $7,500,000 is appropriated for use by the behavioral health administration to expand substance use residential treatment beds for adolescents and for crisis response service systems; and $539,926 is appropriated for use by the behavioral health administration and is for building maintenance costs associated with the youth neuro-psych facility at the Colorado mental health institute at Fort Logan. An additional $35,000,000 is appropriated for capital construction costs related to the construction of a youth neuro-psych facility at the Colorado mental health institute at Fort Logan.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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