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Amendment to the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for the Crisis Community Center Project.
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Recommended Action: Approve the amendment to the 2015 Capital Improvement Program.
On behalf of COMCARE, Project Services is submitting a CIP Amendment for the Crisis Community Center. In October 2014, the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) awarded $1,000,000 to the community mental health centers in Region # 3 (Sedgwick, Butler and Sumner Counties) to implement a Community Crisis Center in Sedgwick County. The cost of purchasing and renovating a building that was originally selected as the site for the center was prohibitive. Instead, COMCARE began a scaled down version of the Community Crisis Center in order to implement the program and to make use of the state grant. Three new services were implemented with this: 23-hour observation chairs, sobering beds and social detox services. (COMCARE also expanded some existing services). Recently modified were two storage rooms in the Sedgwick County Offender Assessment Program at 1720 E. Morris to make space for the detox and sobering services operated by the Substance Abuse Center of Kansas (SACK). COMCARE moved some providers into other COMCARE program locations in order to provide sample space for the 23 hour observation services. It was recently realized that COMCARE's current administration building at 635 N. Main would make an ideal location for the Community Crisis Center due to its size, central location, and due to the fact that the building once served as a residential facility and currently has fire sprinklers installed.
COMCARE believes that community partners (Via Christi, City of Wichita Liquor Tax Coalition, SACK, etc.) are poised to provide some ongoing funding once the program is fully implemented but there is a sense of urgency as KDADS's original grant funding will be exhausted sometime this fall (2015). The outcomes so far have been significant, and while COMCA...
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