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CONSIDERATION OF GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $55,701 COMCARE TO PROVIDE CORRECTIONS LIAISON SERVICES.
Presented by: Marilyn Cook, LSCSW, Executive Director, COMCARE.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the grant and authorize acceptance of the grant.
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Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: No
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline:
Background: The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) has provided a grant to COMCARE for a Corrections Liaison Specialist for the last five years. On average 1,150 to 1,200 offenders are released from Kansas correctional facilities to Sedgwick County annually. Of these, a many as 20% require some level of mental health care upon release. COMCARE has received this grant from the State of Kansas Dept. of Corrections to serve this population. The grant funds a staff person for the following functions:
1. Provide care-coordination services to offenders preparing for release from Kansas prisons, at El Dorado, Winfield, Hutchinson and Wichita Work Release Facility in person; also serving offenders who may be scheduled for release from Lansing, Norton and Topeka Correctional Facilities and Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility, as much as possible, by phone or video; working with discharge planners, other mental health staff, Community Offender Reentry-Pathways (COR-Pathways) staff, unit team staff, and others as appropriate, to deliver the services covered by this agreement, to ensure access to treatment upon release has been arranged and secured, working with transitional/discharge planning teams, acting as a liaison to COMCARE to help set up these treatment services, and coordinating the delivery of these services.
2. Participate in multi-discipline team meetings with parole/reentry staff, and any other treatment provider, peer mentor, or other person working with the offender on his/her reentry/reintegration and risk reduction efforts, to provide input into case planning, and ensure all services available through COMCAR...
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