Colorado Brain Injury Waiver, Health First Colorado, and Appeal Help
Colorado's Brain Injury Waiver can provide home and community supports for some eligible Health First Colorado members with traumatic or acquired brain injury. A local Case Management Agency helps assess the program route.
Start here
If you need home or community support: open the official program links below and ask for the current application or assessment route.
If you already receive services: keep the service plan, assessment, and every written notice together.
If services were denied, reduced, delayed, suspended, or stopped: follow the notice and act before the deadline shown.
Official program and application route
The official Colorado Brain Injury Waiver brochure directs Health First Colorado members to contact their local Case Management Agency and directs people who are not members to contact the agency or apply through Colorado PEAK.
Ask the Case Management Agency for the current eligibility criteria, assessment, service options, decision, and accessible copies. A diagnosis alone does not guarantee waiver eligibility.
If you disagree with a decision
The Health First Colorado appeals page explains eligibility, service, health-plan, formal-hearing, expedited-hearing, and continuation-of-coverage routes. Deadlines differ by decision type. Follow the written notice, request the records relied on, and act immediately if existing services may stop.
What to save
The exact decision, service, assessment, or accommodation requested.
Every notice, service plan, assessment, email, fax receipt, and call reference number.
The deadline and effective date printed on the notice.
How the decision affects safety, health, communication, mobility, work, or community living.
The name and contact information of every agency, plan, case manager, and representative involved.
Communication support
Ask for plain language, extra processing time during calls, written follow-up, an authorized representative, an interpreter, large print, audio, Braille, or another effective communication method. Put the request in writing when possible and keep a copy.
Official sources
Scope and safety
ABI Resources provides direct care services in Connecticut. This Colorado page is national informational content and does not claim that ABI Resources provides Colorado services or represents any government agency. Program rules and deadlines can change. Verify details with the agency and follow your written notice. This is general information, not medical or legal advice. Call 911 for an emergency. Call or text 988 for a suicide or mental-health crisis.
Reviewed: September 19, 2026.
