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Contract between South Central and COMCARE for services provided at the Community Crisis Center.
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Recommended Action: Approve the contract, authorize the Chairman to sign, and authorize the establishment of budget authority as provided in the financial consideration section of this request.
Background: The Community Crisis Center (CCC) seeks to create a center and system of integrated services located in Wichita that holistically addresses the needs of individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis. The CCC project expands existing crisis services to promote rapid stabilization and avoid ER admissions, local hospitalization, state hospitalization and jail bookings. The project expands existing crisis services through the addition of: 23 hour crisis stabilization beds; crisis sobering services with average length of stay of 8-12 hours; crisis acute medical detox services with average length of stay of 3-5 days; children’s short-term crisis residential services.
The target population includes children, adolescents, and adults in the Butler, Sumner, and Sedgwick County area who are at risk of a higher level of care, including voluntary or involuntary local and state hospitalization, due to the mental health crisis and/or crisis related to a co-occurring substance use disorder. Challenges being faced include growing incarceration rates, increased law enforcement referrals to the mental health system, increased used of emergency department by those experiencing substance use disorder, and increased use of psychiatric hospitalization due to lack of community bases alternative. The Community Crisis Center seeks to address these issues by providing an alternative for these individuals in our community.
This contract between South Central and Sedgwick County will provide funding for the Community Crisis Center in the amount of $996,880.
Alternatives: If this contract is not approved further funding will have to be explored for Community Crisis ...
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