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CODE OF COLORADO REGULATIONS 8 CCR 1403-1 Colorado Child Care Assistance Program

55 2. The counties or their designee shall register qualified exempt child care providers and include the following information: name, address (not a P.O. Box #), phone number, date of birth, and social security number or individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). Any contract provided by an agency of a state or local government is considered a public benefit. 3. Qualified Exempt Child Care Provider Requirements a. Qualified exempt child care provider(s) must be at least eighteen (18) years of age. b. A qualified exempt child care provider shall not be the adult caretaker or teen parent of the child that is receiving care. c. A qualified exempt child care provider shall not be a sibling of the child that is receiving care if living in the same residence. d. As a prerequisite to signing a fiscal agreement with a county or its designee, a qualified exempt child care provider shall sign an attestation of mental competence. The attestation affirms that they, and any adult residing in the qualified exempt child care provider home where care is provided, has not been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be insane or mentally incompetent to such a degree that the individual cannot safely care for children. e. A qualified exempt child care provider shall complete and sign the provider information form and the self-attestation form agreeing to participate in additional training as identified. As a part of this agreement, the provider shall not have had any of their own children removed from the home or placed in a residential treatment facility. The self-attestation form must include the signature of the adult caretaker(s) or teen parent(s) acknowledging monitoring responsibilities. A provider information form must be provided to the county and Department any time there is a new member of the provider’s household. 4. Background Checks a. A qualified exempt child care provider and any adult eighteen years of age or older who resides in the exempt child care provider’s home, not including the adult caretaker(s) or teen parent(s), must be subject to a county level background check. The information from the background check must serve only as the basis for further investigation. b. A qualified exempt child care provider and any adult eighteen years of age or older who resides in the exempt child care provider’s home, not including the adult caretaker(s) or teen parent(s), must also be subject to and pass a criminal background review as follows: 1) A review of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) fingerprint-based criminal history records pursuant for section 26.5-5-326, C.R.S.; 2) A review of the Colorado Bureau of Investigations (CBI) fingerprint-based criminal history records at application; 3) An annual review of the state administered database for child abuse and neglect;