"In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...

COVID-19 has profoundly changed how schools and districts operate. Schools have pivoted from in-person to virtual to hybrid learning models to promote student health and safety. Schools are experiencing significant staffing shortages in the effort to meet various instructional demands upon teachers and support staff and accommodate quarantines. Professional learning efforts have been rethought, rescheduled, or paused indefinitely. Fiscal staff continue...

The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed the world as we know it. Many policies related to alcohol availability have changed, which in turn has an impact on consumption and public health. This brief describes some of the changes in alcohol policy in Colorado, emerging indicators related to alcohol availability and related harms, and considerations on using data to study alcohol consumption changes due to COVID-19.

"Making Homelessness History In Colorado" provides a framework for efforts to address homelessness in Colorado today and a vision for the future. It introduces a series of guiding principles with key goals, cross-cutting approaches, and a list of proven solutions that communities across Colorado have successfully implemented that can be replicated elsewhere.

The purpose of this document is to outline requirements for continuing or implementing virtual remote learning options for students in grades K-12 during the 2021-22 school year as schools and districts begin the transition back to normal operation.

The purpose of this document is to outline requirements for continuing or implementing virtual remote learning options for students in grades K-12 during the 2021-22 school year as schools and districts begin the transition back to normal operation.

The COVID-19 pandemic's impact on health care delivery in Colorado has been far-reaching. In response to these impacts, the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (Department) made a series of changes to its telemedicine policies to ensure continued access to services or members enrolled in Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid program). These changes, made through rule and federal disaster authority, expanded the permissible modes of telemedicine...

Over the past months, the Colorado Resiliency Office has been working with communities to share adaptations and capture lessons learned during COVID-19. Communities have been impressive in their efforts to be nimble and responsive to continuous change. These lessons have the potential to transcend the pandemic and fortify communities to future disruptions.

In the 2020 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly included in the School Finance Act the creation of a stakeholder group to address issues for students, schools and districts presented by the COVID-19 crisis. The charge of the COVID-19 Policy Implications Stakeholder Group was to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting disruption to the 2019-20 school year, and to make recommendations regarding whether and how to...