C.R.S. § 23-23-101

In order to provide for the commitment or sentencing of children to the various institutions of the state of Colorado most suited to their care, rehabilitation, and treatment, to provide the administrative authorities of such institutions with social and medical case histories of children committed or sentenced to such institutions, and to provide the courts with such information as may be needed before children are sentenced or committed to such institutions, there is hereby established a Colorado children’s diagnostic center, to be located at the Colorado psychiatric hospital.