Health and mental healthcare and juvenile justice (Division Of Youth Services Colorado)
| Tracking # |
128-2023 |
| Multi Request | Health and mental healthcare and juvenile justice |
| Submitted | May 23, 2023 |
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From: Joshua Dankoff
To Whom It May Concern,
This is a request for records under your state public records law. I am requesting copies of public records regarding health and behavioural health service delivery in youth correctional facilities in your jurisdiction, to inform a comparative research project regarding health and mental health care delivery in juvenile detention facilities across the US. Specifically, I request information regarding the following:
1. Name and contact details for those responsible for health and behavioural health services provisions at all locations where juveniles are incarcerated within your jurisdiction.
2. Regulations, policies and procedures that govern the operation of health and behavioral health provision for juveniles incarcerated within your jurisdiction. This includes health intake, room confinement, medication management, access to specialist and dental services, discharge planning services, and other health and behavioral health related policies.
3. Contracts from January 1, 2021 to the time the request is filled between your agency and any healthcare provider including both physical health and behavioral health.
4. Records concerning your jurisdiction’s most recent application to Centre for Medicaid Services (CMS) for an 1115 Medicaid waiver (if applicable), and any response, with specifically focus on how and whether such a waiver applies to provision of Medicaid funded services for detained juveniles.
5. Records relating to financing for health and behavioural health care delivery in your jurisdiction.
I request the records be provided electronically. If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me. However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees in that the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of the administration of juvenile justice. This information is not being sought for commercial purposes.
If access to the records I am requesting will take longer than allowed by statute, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies of the requested records.
If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.
Thank you for considering my request.
Sincerely,
Tess Kelly
Fellow, Harvard FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights
Joshua Dankoff
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
617.338.1050
From: Division Of Youth Services Colorado
Good Morning Mr. Dankoff,
We are researching your request and have a couple of clarifications in
yellow, in order to proceed.
1. Name and contact details for those responsible for health and
behavioural health services provisions at all locations where juveniles are
incarcerated within your jurisdiction.
Are you asking for the contact information for CDHS, DYS staff? or
specified medical staff in which this Department contracts with or
something else?
5. Records relating to financing for health and behavioural health care
delivery in your jurisdiction.
Can you please be more specific on your interests for this request? Are you
interested in fiscal information on medical spending? fiscal for staffing?
and contract information?
With your response, we will proceed in researching your request.
*Amanda Brubaker*
*CORA Manager*
P 303.866.2727 I
4030 South Newton Street, Denver, CO 80236
amanda.brubaker@state.co.us I www.colorado.gov/cdhs
Colorado Open Records Under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), all
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to public disclosure.
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Colorado Department of Human Services are confidential and intended solely
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From: Division Of Youth Services Colorado
Good Afternoon,
Just touching back on this request for clarifications, so that we may
proceed in researching your request.
*Amanda Brubaker*
*CORA Manager*
P 303.866.2727 I
4030 South Newton Street, Denver, CO 80236
amanda.brubaker@state.co.us I www.colorado.gov/cdhs
Colorado Open Records Under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), all
messages sent by or to me on this state-owned e-mail account may be subject
to public disclosure.
Confidentiality Statement: This email and any attachments from the
Colorado Department of Human Services are confidential and intended solely
for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The
information contained herein may include protected or otherwise privileged
information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying,
distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited, and may be
unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify the
sender by replying to this message and delete the email without further
disclosure.
From: Division Of Youth Services Colorado
Please see response and attachments.
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Contracts_128-2023.zip
From: Joshua Dankoff
Hi Amanda,
Many thanks for your response! This is very helpful.
In response to your questions:
1. Are you asking for the contact information for CDHS, DYS staff? or specified medical staff in which this Department contracts with or something else?
Thank you for providing Ashley Tunstall's contact details. I was also hoping to obtain contact details of manager/persons responsible for healthcare in juvenile detention facilities, though am I correct in assuming from your response that Ashley has oversight over this?
5. Can you please be more specific on your interests for this request? Are you interested in fiscal information on medical spending? fiscal for staffing? and contract information?
I am interested in fiscal (budget allocations) for medical spending, as well as staffing of medical services in juvenile detention facilities.
Thanks again, your response is very helpful!
Kind regards,
Tess Kelly
From: Division Of Youth Services Colorado
Hello Ms. Kelly,
Please see our responses below.
1) Question: I was also hoping to obtain contact details of manager/persons
responsible for healthcare in juvenile detention facilities, though am I
correct in assuming from your response that Ashley has oversight over this?
*Response*: Yes, Ashley is our Director of Behavioral Health and Medical
Services for all DYS secure youth centers.
2) Question: I am interested in fiscal (budget allocations) for medical
spending, as well as staffing of medical services in juvenile detention
facilities.
*Response*:
7/1/22 - 6/30/23: $13,131,503, 84.2 FTE
7/1/21 - 6/30/22: $12,804,074, 84.2 FTE
7/1/20 - 6/30/21: $13,188,930, 84.2 FTE
*Amanda Brubaker*
*CORA Manager*
P 303.866.2727 I
4030 South Newton Street, Denver, CO 80236
amanda.brubaker@state.co.us I www.colorado.gov/cdhs
Colorado Open Records Under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), all
messages sent by or to me on this state-owned e-mail account may be subject
to public disclosure.
Confidentiality Statement: This email and any attachments from the
Colorado Department of Human Services are confidential and intended solely
for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The
information contained herein may include protected or otherwise privileged
information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying,
distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited, and may be
unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify the
sender by replying to this message and delete the email without further
disclosure.
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