Family Voices Colorado

10/03/2026

🎶 Free Tickets for Colorado Families! 🎶

Families with children with disabilities can enjoy free tickets to Tiny Tots: Passport to Music concerts this October, thanks to a grant from the Colorado Disability Coalition supported by State of Colorado funding.

🌎 Take a musical journey around the world with a 16-piece professional orchestra! These interactive, sensory-friendly concerts welcome movement and participation and include accessible seating, bilingual English-Spanish narration, and ASL interpretation.

👧 Designed for children 7 and under, but all ages are welcome!

📍 October 13 — Boulder JCC
📍 October 18 — EPIC Campus, Littleton
📍 October 22 — Mile Hi Church, Lakewood
📍 October 24 — Stanley Marketplace, Aurora

🎟️ Reserve your FREE tickets at InsideTheOrchestra.org using code ACCESS26 at checkout.

10/02/2026

📣 Colorado is considering significant changes to Medicaid Long-Term Services & Supports (LTSS), and families have an important role in helping shape HOW those changes are made.

HCPF has been clear that changes are coming. Family input is especially important in helping decision-makers understand which changes create the greatest risks, what protections are needed, and whether proposed cuts would actually save money.

If your child or family member relies on LTSS, think about:

• What care is essential to keeping them safely at home?
• What would happen if certain hours or services were reduced?
• Could a reduction increase the risk of hospitalization, caregiver breakdown, or institutionalization?
• Would the cut actually save Medicaid money — or simply shift costs to emergency care, hospitals, nursing facilities, residential care, or other services?
• What exceptions or safeguards are needed for people with higher or more complex needs?
• Is there another way to achieve savings without creating greater risks or costs elsewhere?

💬 Specific examples matter. Instead of only saying, “My child needs this service,” help explain what happens if that support is no longer available, who would provide the care instead, and what the downstream consequences would be.

This is an important opportunity to help Colorado make difficult decisions in a way that protects people with the greatest needs and avoids cuts that may create bigger problems — and bigger costs — somewhere else.

‼️Roundtables will take place on 10/6 & 10/7 and stakeholders can attend via Zoom. 🔗register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TkEwF89RRuagF7nNlrRUSg #/registration

You may also (or instead) choose to submit a survey in response. 🔗Link to the survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDNIIo0MKVZQDkbMHacoCeI3hGmm0gomt2Ne2z4L6-6yNEvA/viewform

🔗 Learn about the proposals and share your input: https://hcpf.colorado.gov/medicaid-sustainability-and-ltss

Colorado’s long-term services and supports (LTSS) system plays a critical role in ensuring that older adults and individuals with disabilities have access to care in the setting of their choice. Over the last several years, the state has invested over $600M to expand access, improve equity, and st...

09/29/2026

📢 **MSB Meeting Summary — September 11, 2026**

Several important Medicaid and LTSS updates were discussed at the September Medical Services Board meeting. Here are a few key takeaways for families:

• 📅 Medicaid Renewals: Beginning January 1, 2027, certain adults will have Medicaid eligibility reviewed every 6 months instead of annually.

• 🧒 Cover All Coloradans LTSS: New applicants will no longer be accepted beginning January 1, 2027. Children already enrolled by December 31, 2026 can remain eligible under the legacy population.

• 🏡 DD Waiver: Updates clarify waiting-list categories, crisis enrollment criteria, and pathways for youth transitioning to adult services.

• 🩺 Private Duty Nursing: Proposed changes would create an Acute PDN option for certain short-term, urgent nursing needs following events such as hospitalization or a significant change in condition.

• 👥 CFC & LTHH Group Rates: Group rates are being implemented for certain services when one caregiver appropriately serves multiple members at the same time. These changes affect reimbursement, **not the amount of care a member is authorized to receive.**

👉 Read the full meeting summary for more details and information about how these changes may affect families

Link to full summary: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wq8GEz9taqpa6pdUaP5TqrCVuZXrVlgS/view?usp=share_link

09/28/2026

Turning 18 can change SSI eligibility.
Our new guide explains what families need to know about SSI at age 18, redetermination, and how to apply.

09/24/2026

Another month, another Caregiver Conversation! It’s officially Fall and we can’t wait for you to join us and a panel of disability adults as they share their experiences in childhood with us all.

Register at this link and comment “I’m in” if you plan to join 🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rrSO-rSeQVaFeN4aNtpUQg #/registration

09/21/2026

We’re growing our team! 🎉

The need for family navigation and support continues to grow across Colorado, and expanded funding is giving Family Voices Colorado the opportunity to add capacity so we can support more families—and better support the staff already doing this work.

We’re currently hiring for three roles:

• Executive Assistant & Administrative Support Specialist – for someone who loves organization, communications, graphic design, and helping a team run smoothly.
• Family Navigator – Behavioral Health & Complex Needs – for someone who is comfortable digging into complicated situations and helping families navigate behavioral health, disability, health care, education, and other systems.
• Rural Family Navigator – for someone passionate about supporting families in rural and frontier communities and building strong local connections across Colorado.

These are primarily remote, Colorado-based positions with flexible schedules and meaningful work alongside a team deeply committed to families of children and youth with disabilities and special health care needs.

Know someone who might be a great fit? Please share this post or send it their way!

Learn more and apply at familyvoicesco.org/careers

09/19/2026

📢 LTSS updates to know about in Colorado

HCPF is making several changes to how Long-Term Services & Supports are assessed, authorized, and delivered. Here are the key takeaways:

• Direct Care Services Calculator (DCSC): Used to determine attendant service hours based on a member’s individualized needs, including age-appropriate task standards for children.

• Protective Oversight: May be authorized for documented, recurring safety risks requiring active intervention—not simply supervision or line-of-sight monitoring.

• Accompanying: Can support members who need caregiver assistance to safely participate in appointments, errands, and other community activities.

• Soft Caps: Are not absolute limits. Services above a soft cap may be approved when a member’s documented needs support an exception.

• CSA & PCSP: HCPF is developing a new Colorado Single Assessment and Person-Centered Support Plan, with phased implementation anticipated beginning in FY 2027–28 and statewide implementation anticipated in FY 2028–29.

• Acute PDN: A new short-term pathway is planned to allow qualifying members to begin or increase skilled nursing without prior authorization for up to 60 consecutive days, pending final approval and implementation.

👉 Want the details, timelines, and what these changes could mean for members and families? Read the full breakdown here:

🔗 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n2XB_EkDq9r-wP5Ct8nm8azhmjjObleq/view?usp=drivesdk

09/11/2026

08/28/2026

Colorado families: know your options. 💙

Colorado’s System of Care (CO-SOC) helps children and youth with significant behavioral health needs access coordinated, family-centered support while staying safely at home and in their communities whenever possible.

Other supports include:
✨ Enhanced High Fidelity Wraparound — brings families, providers, schools & agencies together around one plan.
🏠 Intensive Home-Based Treatment — intensive mental health support in the home, school & community.
🤝 Collaborative Management Program — coordinates multiple systems so families aren’t left navigating them alone.
💙 CwCHN Waiver Respite — provides temporary relief for caregivers, including skilled and unskilled respite.
Families shouldn’t have to navigate complex systems alone. Know what support is available to you.

🔗 Learn more about Colorado’s System of Care: https://hcpf.colorado.gov/co-soc

🔗Link to our full summary: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d4L91iAp4nH6NlZ7o6clUtOJ-pT7p2qH/view?usp=sharing

08/27/2026

📢 DON’T FORGET!!! 📢

Lunch with a navigator again today from 12p - 1p

Join us at the link below to get your questions answered by a member of our team.

🔗 http://meet.google.com/suf-ogra-jdo