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Consideration of a grant award in the amount of $36,477.00 for the COMCARE Prepare Program for early childhood mental health.
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RECOMMENDED ACTION: Authorize acceptance of the grant and the establishment of budget authority as provided in the financial considerations section of this request.
Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: N/A
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline: The United Methodist Health Ministry Fund based in Hutchinson, Kansas, has elected to renew a grant to the COMCARE Children's Services program for early childhood mental health. This grant will pay for COMCARE early childhood therapists to continue providing evidence-based parenting classes to families at no cost to them. It will also allow the therapists to continue doing community outreach, including screening young children in the community for social and emotional developmental concerns. Through these interventions, staff then work with the family to develop an action plan and refer them to services within COMCARE and through other service providers as needed.
This grant renewal is a one-year extension. It provides funding for part of the salaries of the early childhood clinicians, supplies and materials for the parenting classes and assessments, meals for the parenting classes, and childcare so that parents can attend the classes.
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: 06/01/13
Grant period ends: 05/31/14
Source of funding
Grant: $36,477.00
Required Match: $0
Required Cash Match: $0
Required In-Kind Match: $0
Other funding:$0
TOTAL SOURCES: $36,477.00
Uses of funding (Note: Include any Required Matches in your totals)
Operational costs: $0
Personnel: $24,364.00
Contractual se...
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