8 Colo. Code Regs. § 1402-1-2.704

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 11, June 10, 2024

Section 8 CCR 1402-1-2.704 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Employee" means a paid employee of a Neighborhood Youth Organization who is eighteen (18) years of age or older.

B. "Neighborhood Youth Organization" means a nonprofit organization that provides programs and services, as described in section 26.5-5-308, C.R.S., to children, youth, and families through comprehensive wraparound supports to ensure positive growth and development during childhood and adolescence, and is designed to serve youth as young as five (5) years of age who are enrolled in kindergarten and as old as eighteen (18) years of age.

1. These activities must occur primarily in a facility leased by, granted access or use to, or owned by the Neighborhood Youth Organization. The activities must occur in an environment in which youth have written parent or guardian consent to become a youth member of the Neighborhood Youth Organization, and to participate in the programs and services of the Neighborhood Youth Organization.

2. A Neighborhood Youth Organization does not include faith-based centers, organizations or programs operated by state or city parks or special districts, or departments or facilities that are currently licensed as child care centers as defined in rule section 2.203(B) of the "Rules Regulating Child Care Centers.

C. "Nonprofit Organization" means an organization that is exempt from taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Federal "Internal Revenue Code of 1986", 26 U.S.C. sec. 501, as amended.

D. "Volunteer" means a person who volunteers assistance to a Neighborhood Youth Organization and who is eighteen (18) years of age or older.

E. "Youth member" means a youth who is five years of age and enrolled in kindergarten or who is older than five years of age and up to eighteen years of age whose parent or legal guardian has provided written consent for the youth to participate in the activities of a neighborhood youth organization..

F. A "Youth Employee" is a paid staff member of a Neighborhood Youth Organization who is between the ages of fourteen (14) and seventeen (17) years, and does not have unsupervised contact with youth.

8 CCR 1402-1-2.704

47 CR 02, January 25, 2024, effective 2/14/2024