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County supports targeted funding for Comcare and CDDO, urges protections for community behavioral health model
Summary
Sedgwick County staff recommended supporting requests from Comcare and the CDDO/Interhab on Oct. 21, including an additional $4 million for CMHC contracts and targeted measures to expand crisis-response capacity and CDDO administrative funding.
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Sedgwick County staff asked commissioners on Oct. 21 to include several behavioral-health and developmental-disability items in the county's legislative platform.
Comcare's association requested an additional $4,000,000 in FY2027 for community mental-health-center (CMHC) contract funding, plus money to address behavioral-health workforce shortages and to sustain certification and planning models such as the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model. Staff said…
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