Who We Are
The Workforce Capacity Center (WCC) was established in 2025 to support and strengthen Colorado’s behavioral health workforce within the Colorado System of Care (CO-SOC). The WCC oversees training, certification, technical assistance, coaching, and fidelity monitoring for behavioral health providers delivering evidence-based models for Intensive Care Coordination and Intensive Home-Based Treatment in CO-SOC.
What is the Colorado System of Care?
A system of care is a coordinated network of community-based services and supports for eligible youth with significant or complex mental health concerns or other challenges and their families.
It is designed to:
- Build strong and meaningful partnerships with families and youth
- Be culturally and linguistically responsive
- Help children, youth and their families function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life
The Colorado System of Care (CO-SOC) is the statewide framework developed collaboratively by the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) to support children and youth with complex or high-acuity behavioral health needs.
Welcome Message
Welcome to the Colorado System of Care (CO-SOC) Workforce Capacity Center (WCC), housed within Colorado State University’s School of Social Work and supported through a partnership with the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the Behavioral Health Administration.
The CO-SOC WCC is a core component of Colorado’s System of Care, the statewide framework designed to deliver coordinated in-home and community based behavioral health services for children and youth with complex behavioral health needs. CO-SOC brings together providers, families and partners to ensure services are culturally responsive, family-driven and delivered in the least restrictive settings.
Within this system, the CO-SOC WCC plays a critical role in building and sustaining a workforce needed to deliver high quality and evidence-based care. We provide training, technical assistance, coaching, and certification support to providers implementing key CO-SOC services, including Enhanced High Fidelity Wraparound, Enhanced Multisystemic Therapy, Enhanced Functional Family Therapy, and Colorado Intensive Home-Based Treatment.
We are particularly committed to expanding workforce capacity in rural and frontier communities to ensure all children, youth, and families can benefit from the system.
Whether you are a clinician, provider organization or system partner, the CO-SOC WCC exists to support your role in implementing and advancing Colorado’ System of Care.
Drs. Marc Winokur and Nathaniel Riggs
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