Title
Amendment to the 2018 COMCARE's Participating Community Mental Health Center Agreement with the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS).
Body
Recommended Action: Accept the amendment and authorize the Chairman or his designee to sign all the necessary documents.
Background: The Participating Community Mental Health Center Contract is the primary funding contract for COMCARE from the State of Kansas Department of 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 amendment provides additional funding designated for the Community Crisis Center (CCC). The CCC provides mental health crisis services 24/7 for residents in the Sedgwick County area. This funding is critical to the continuation of services.
Financial Consideration:
Term: 6/1/17 to 7/31/18
Funding: $1,300,000
Fund Center: 31103-252
Budget Authority Adjustment: No additional budget authority is being requested. Sufficient budget authority is included in the 2018 budget.
Alternatives: If this addendum is not approved COMCARE will not receive additional funding for the CCC and services would be in jeopardy of being decreased.
Policy considerations: All Sedgwick County policies have been followed in the development and review of this contract.
Legal considerations: The authority for this action...
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