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Participating Community Mental Health Center Contract with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disabilities Services.
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RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the agreement and authorize the Chairman to sign.
Background: The Participating Community Mental Health Center Contract is the primary funding contract for COMCARE from the State of Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS). The contract establishes COMCARE as a participating community mental health center (CMHC), and also designates it as the mental health authority for Sedgwick County. The agreement describes the responsibilities, compensation amounts, and the necessary services COMCARE must provide as a participating mental health center. These services include case management, attendant care, psychosocial rehabilitation, and an array of crisis services, which COMCARE must make available to adults with a severe and persistent mental illness, and to children with a serious emotional disturbance. The contract also includes performance outcomes COMCARE must achieve through its community mental health services. This agreement is the mechanism through which COMCARE receives Block Grant dollars, which are also vital to COMCARE's ability to provide necessary mental health services.
Alternatives: Without this agreement with the State, COMCARE would no longer be the mental health authority for Sedgwick County, would no longer be able to bill Medicaid for community based services, and would no longer receive significant grant support for its work with uninsured mentally ill residents of Sedgwick County.
COMCARE's allocation includes the following three sections of funding:
$1,947,819 Mental Health Reform (MHR)
$301,205 Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG)
$749,297 Governor's Mental Health Initiative (GMHI)
$2,998,321 TOTAL
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: 07/01/14
Grant period ends: 06/30/15
Source of funding
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