Colorado Infant Hearing Advisory Committee (CIHAC)
The Colorado Infant Hearing Advisory Committee (CIHAC) advises the department on issues related to newborn hearing screening in the State.
Meetings
The CIHAC meetings are held on a quarterly basis at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver, and are held in person or by Zoom conference call. Meeting announcements and updates will be listed below, and all meetings are open to the public. If you are interested in being added to the stakeholder email list, please email leanne.glenn@state.co.us.
The Colorado Infant Hearing Advisory Committee may temporarily convene separate subcommittees. Please see the minutes below for those subcommittee meetings.
All meetings will take place from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
- Current meeting agenda: Feb. 7, 2025 meeting agenda
2025 Meeting Schedule
- Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, remote meeting
- Friday, May 2, 2025, remote meeting
- Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, hybrid meeting
- Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, remote meeting
Upcoming CIHAC and HIDS NBH Q & A meetings
March 27 CO-Chair Planning Meeting for May CIHAC meeting
- Time: March 27, 2025 12:00 p.m.
- Meeting ID: 827 5775 4811
- Passcode: 878168
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HIDS NBH Q & A Sessions
Prepare for HIDS NBH application user Q & A sessions! The next one will be on May 29, 2025, with information posted soon. Please note that these meetings are not meetings of the advisory committee, but some of our CIHAC members are also providers who enter data.
Other related groups which may have discussions on similar topic areas as the CIHAC:
Colorado EHDI Alliance
The Colorado EHDI alliance is an informal group developed by the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) under their HRSA EHDI grant to gather information from Colorado’s EHDI community on task forces for areas such as screening, evaluation, intervention, Deaf and hard of hearing adults, and so on. Please see their website for any meeting announcements, agendas, and minutes.
The EHDI Interagency Steering Committee
An interagency group of the four government agencies involved in Colorado’s entire EHDI system. The agencies are:
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Colorado Department of Human Services
- Colorado Department of Early Childhood
- Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind
To fulfill the need for multi-agency collaboration in Colorado, this interagency group was created in 2024 after a years-long gaps analysis beginning in 2022 (with a 100-provider survey and multiple focus groups) funded by CDPHE. Our partners at CDHS are housing the steering committee documents, including a four-agency overview of the roles of all four government agencies.
The steering committee currently meets monthly on the first Tuesday of the month, with a public comment/Q & A section open from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. To be added to the regular Google calendar invitation, please email Ashley Juhl (ashley.juhl@state.co.us), CDPHE’s Program Manager for Colorado Responds to Children with Special Needs, who is managing invites to the public section of these meetings.
April 22 - EHDI Interagency Steering Committee Meeting - Public Comment Section (date change)
- Topic: Public comment
- Time: April 22, 2025 11-11:30 a.m.
- Meeting ID: 847 2841 1767
- Passcode: 579653
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March 5 - Policy work group hosted by Children’s Hospital Colorado
CDPHE staff have learned that Children's Hospital Colorado will be hosting a policy workgroup regarding legislation for 2026. Please contact Lauren.Freemire@childrenscolorado.org for more information.
- Time: 9 a.m.
- Contact: Lauren.Freemire@childrenscolorado.org
Children's Hospital Colorado is in charge of all arrangements for this meeting. Please contact them if you would like to attend and require ASL interpretation or would like an agenda or minutes from this meeting.
Please let us know about any other related meetings that CIHAC members are attending that may interest multiple CIHAC stakeholders so that we can post them here to comply with the Open Meetings law.
Meeting minutes
2025
2025 HIDS NBH application Q & A Session minutes
Note: Provider feedback on data fields or provider Q & A sessions are not part of CIHAC meetings but may include CIHAC members who are also providers. Most providers who submit newborn hearing data to CDPHE and attend Q & A sessions are not CIHAC members.
2024
- Special request meeting - EHDI Introductions, Dec. 20, 2024 meeting:
- Ellen Stern, Director of Children's Hospital Colorado, Government Affairs, requested to meet with CDPHE Newborn Hearing Screening Program staff.
- Since Colorado's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) System is a collaboration among four government agencies, one representative (from the EHDI Interagency Steering Committee) from each agency joined a meeting for introductions, updates, and a discussion on plans moving forward.
- Agencies present at this meeting included CDPHE, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS), the Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB). Since multiple members from our Colorado Infant Hearing Advisory Committee (CIHAC) planned to be present for this discussion, the meeting was open to the public and minutes are posted above to comply with open meetings requirements.
- CIHAC Co-Chair planning meeting, Dec. 18, 2024
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Oct. 11, 2024
- CIHAC Co-Chair planning meeting, Aug. 23, 2024
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Aug. 2, 2024
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Feb. 2, 2024
- CIHAC meeting minutes, May 3, 2024
2024 HIDS NBH application Q & A Session minutes
Note: Provider feedback on data fields or provider Q & A sessions are not part of CIHAC meetings but may include CIHAC members who are also providers. Most providers who submit newborn hearing data to CDPHE and attend Q & A sessions are not CIHAC members.
2023
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Oct. 13, 2023
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Aug. 4, 2023
- CIHAC meeting minutes, May 5, 2023
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Feb. 3, 2023
2023 CIHAC Bylaws Subcommittee Meeting Minutes
- CIHAC Bylaws Subcommittee meeting minutes, April 18, 2023
- CIHAC Bylaws Subcommittee meeting minutes, July 6, 2023
- CIHAC Bylaws Subcommittee meeting minutes, July 11, 2023
2023 HIDS NBH application Q & A Session minutes
Note: Provider feedback on data fields or provider Q & A sessions are not part of CIHAC meetings but may include CIHAC members who are also providers. Most providers who submit newborn hearing data to CDPHE and attend Q & A sessions are not CIHAC members.
2021
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Oct. 22, 2021.
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Aug. 6, 2021.
- CIHAC meeting minutes, May 7, 2021.
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Feb. 5, 2021.
2021 HIDS Data Subcommittee Meeting Minutes
- HIDS Data Subcommittee Meeting minutes, June 24, 2021
- HIDS Data Subcommittee Meeting minutes, July 15, 2021
- HIDS Data Subcommittee Meeting minutes, Aug. 18, 2021
- HIDS Data Subcommittee Meeting minutes, Aug. 24, 2021
- Early Intervention Definitions for CDC Reporting from HIDS Data, Dec. 6, 2021
- HIDS reporting for CDC - Data questions/reconciliation, Jan. 11, 2022
2021 PCP Access Subcommittee Meeting minutes
2020
2020 Information-gathering stakeholder meetings between CIHAC meetings due to pandemic
- Information-gathering stakeholder meeting Aug. 26, 2020 from 11:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.
- Information-gathering stakeholder meeting Sept. 4, 2020 from 1:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m.
2020 Provider feedback on HIDS NBH application
Note: Provider feedback on data fields are not part of CIHAC meetings but may include CIHAC members who are also providers. Most providers who submit newborn hearing data to CDPHE are not CIHAC members.
- Health Information Data System NBH application Feedback Review, Meeting 1: (Audiologist and Audiology Associate) Meeting Minutes Feb. 7, 2020, 10:00 a.m.
- Health Information Data System NBH application Feedback Review, Meeting 2: (CO-Hears) Meeting Minutes Feb. 19, 2020, 12:00 p.m.
- Health Information Data System NBH application Feedback Review, Meeting 3: (CO-Hears) Meeting Minutes Feb. 28, 2020, 3:00 p.m.
- Health Information Data System NBH application Feedback Review, Meeting 4: (CO-Hears and associated staff) Meeting Minutes March 6, 2020, 11:00 a.m.
- Health Information Data System NBH application Feedback Review, Meeting 5: (Hearing Screeners testing application) Meeting Minutes March 10, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
2019
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Oct. 11, 2019.
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Aug. 2, 2019.
- CIHAC meeting minutes, May 3, 2019.
- CIHAC meeting minutes, Feb. 1, 2019.
2019 Provider feedback on HIDS NBH application
Note: Provider feedback on data fields are not part of CIHAC meetings but may include CIHAC members who are also providers. Most providers who submit newborn hearing data to CDPHE are not CIHAC members