Plain-language descriptions of Colorado HCBS and LTSS services and waivers to help you get oriented.
Helps people 16 and older with a brain injury that occurred before age 65 get the extra support they need to live safely in their home and community instead of a nursing facility or hospital.
Supports children with complex health needs or life-limiting illnesses who are at risk of hospital or nursing facility care, while letting families keep seeking curative treatment alongside palliative or hospice care. Replaced the former CHCBS and CLLI waivers.
Helps children with a developmental disability build the skills and supports they need to stay included in their community as they grow into adulthood, while living in the family home.
Provides residential services for children and youth with an intellectual or developmental disability, very high support needs, or a serious emotional disturbance who are at risk of needing to live outside the family home.
Historically covered a Wellness Education Benefit for children. This waiver is being phased out — remaining members and services are transitioning to the Children with Complex Health Needs (CwCHN) waiver and Community First Choice (CFC).
A Medicaid State Plan option — not a traditional waiver — that lets eligible members self-direct their own attendant care, choosing and training their own caregivers, or receive services through an agency instead.
Provides long-term services and supports for adults with a serious mental illness who need help with daily activities in order to stay in a community setting instead of an institution.
Adds acupuncture, chiropractic care, and massage therapy on top of standard home and community-based services. Available statewide with no waitlist, for Coloradans 18+ living with a spinal cord injury, MS, brain injury, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, or cerebral palsy who can't walk independently.
Provides round-the-clock supervision and support — through residential and day habilitation services — for people with developmental disabilities, in settings ranging from host homes to group homes to their own family's home.
Supports people 65 and older with a functional impairment, people who are blind, and adults 18-64 with a physical disability or an HIV/AIDS diagnosis who need long-term services and supports to remain in the community.
Supports adults with an intellectual or developmental disability who want to remain in their own home or with family, with services tailored to their individual goals rather than round-the-clock supervision.