Tag: Disability Law Colorado
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Settlement expected to significantly improve intensive behavioral health services for Colorado youth receiving Medicaid
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A class-action lawsuit by Disability Law Colorado and three Colorado families has resulted in a settlement agreement that requires the state to set up a large-scale system guaranteeing Medicaid-insured youth up to age 21 will receive needed intensive behavioral health services. The action is considerable, said Heidi Baskfield, an original organizer of the lawsuit and…
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Behind closed doors: When it comes to seclusion and restraint, Colorado schools ‘are investigating themselves’
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Editor’s note: We’re republishing this 2020 story from Chalkbeat in light of accusations of an “incarceration room” at McAuliffe International. The lawyer for the school’s former principal rejected such a characterization by members of the Denver Public Schools board. Nearly every day, Brenna Wann saw staff members take young students, sometimes kicking and screaming, to…