My Girlfriend (17) is being threatened by her mother to be placed in a ward

Location: Colorado

I’m sorry if this doesn’t fit perfectly into the category of legal advice but I really need any help here because she is incredibly scared of being left alone by her mom.

To break things down, my girlfriend and I are both 17 wih no license, she lives an hour away from me with her mother. Her mom is a psychopath essentially, she hardly cares for her daughter, ignores her good deeds and criticizes her for everything, blaming everything wrong on her essentially. Recently her mom bought $5000 of perfumes for no reason and made her eat ramen for each meal. It makes me angry that she has to be with her mom, however her mom pays for her phone, internet, water, and everything she would need to stay in contact with me and her friends and not go insane.

So she’s reliant on her mother, who is still a terrible and manipulative, if not even abusive parent in some aspects. Today, however, after an argument between them her mom proposed sending my girlfriend to a ward for children, she wasn’t kidding either. So now she is roghtfully freaking out and I just want her to be safe and happy. Her plan is to stay with her mom until she graduates early and moving into the dorms of the college in my town. I need like a lawyer’s or just other people’s perspectives because I don’t know exactly how she could be sent to a ward, especially when she’s turning 18 in November, idk the legal aspect at all. If she ends up having to live with my family idk how that would work either I’m just so lost and I thought to call Reddit for help