The Administrative Review Division (ARD) The ARD manages the qualitative case review portion of Colorado's child welfare quality assurance system. The ARD's vision is to create a safe and promising future for children and at-risk adults, by strengthening the communities, families, and systems that work to make that future possible. ARD is a neutral third party that facilitates case reviews, gathers, and analyzes data, publish research, and provides training and technical assistance to affect change in practice,
In addition to these specific areas, the ARD's qualitative case review instrument has
sets designed to measure the quality of case practice in the following areas:
Mental health
Substance abuse Educational stability and progress
Frequency and quality of contacts with the child/youth and parents
Engagement of the child/youth and parents in case planning Adequacy of visitation between the child/youth and their siblings and parer
Timeliness of Title IV-E eligibility