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CONSIDERATION OF A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,698,121.00 FOR COMCARE'S PARTICIPATING COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER CONTRACT.
Presented by: Marilyn Cook, LSCSW, Executive Director, COMCARE.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the contract and authorize the Chairman to sign.
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Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: N/A
Applied; not awarded: N/A
Grant Summary and Timeline: The Participating Community Mental Health Center Contract is the primary funding contract for COMCARE from the State of Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. 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 also the mechanism through which COMCARE receives Federal Block Grant dollars and Family Centered System of Care Funds, which are also vital to COMCARE's ability to provide necessary mental health services. The total allocation to COMCARE was increased by $749,297.00 this year, and includes:
$2,697,116.00 State General Funds
$688, 587.00 Family Centered System of Care Funds
$312,418 Federal Block Grant Funds
$3,698,121.00 Total
There was a change in how the performance outcomes are being measured, with a focus on reduced consumer hospitalizations. There were no other significant changes.
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: 07/01/12
Grant period ends: 06/30/13
Source of funding
Grant: $3,698,121.00
Required Match: N/A
Required Cash Match: N/A
Required In-Kind Match: N/A
Other funding:N/A
TOTAL SOURCES
Uses of funding
Operational costs: $0
Personnel: $3,698,121.00
Contractual services: $0
Operational supplies: $0
Equipment:$0
Indirect administrative costs:$0
Capital projects cost:$0
TOTAL USES $3,698,121.00
Source of matching funds: N/A
Source of other funding: N/A
Budget Authority Adjustment: N/A- no additional authority is required.
Personnel considerations: N/A - no additional personnel will be required.
Expected measurable outcomes: The contract specifies the necessary outcomes COMCARE must achieve through its community mental health services, including vocational status, residential status, and readmissions to inpatient treatment facilities. Through the contract, COMCARE is required to provide an array of supports to adults with severe and persistent mental illness and to children with a serious emotional disturbance to achieve these outcomes.
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.
Policy considerations: All Sedgwick County policies have been followed.
Legal considerations: The authority for this action is K.S.A. 19-101 and a simple majority is required.